I’m thinking a lot about social interactions these days. When we switched to shelter-in-place, they mostly went away. As we got used to using Zoom, we added some socializing back in, and that was a lifeline during the pandemic. But there are two big issues that I, personally, have with Zoom and other online interactions: […]
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We had a funny moment last night — Kevin came up around 10:30 to tell me that Sri had shown up again, and was asking for treats. He and Arya promptly got into a brotherly spat, and we had to separate them, which reinforced my feeling that it was probably the right decision to let
Just a cute moment from yesterday’s event; I wandered out to check on the other vendors, and happened to run across Aryabhata having a nice long drink.
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What I want to be doing is puttering in the garden with my pets for company, and there’ll be some of that later, but first, I do have to get through at least a little computer work today. Angeli Primlani and I agreed to sign up together for a local screenwriting class (I say local,
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Aryabhata, you have a perfectly good fresh water fountain that we add nice water to daily on the floor not two feet away from my hellebore bowl…
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Filling out my faculty activity report, due today. Everything is due today. I would like to stop working for the day, but not yet. Still, at least all the work seems to be adding up to actually accomplishing things, which is nice. ***** Please provide a summary statement (a short paragraph) of your salient faculty
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I have a vague little project in mind that might involve writing tiny stories about the fairies at Serendib House. On the plane to ICFA, I ended up writing a poem instead of a story. It is hard to write a poem about a flower that doesn’t end up sounding twee, people. But here, here’s
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I really want to put my house in order and go out and take garden photos and thin some seedlings that desperately need thinning, but I think my cat missed me, because Arya keeps coming and plopping down in my lap. It’s rainy today, so he goes out, gets soaking wet, and then comes and
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Oh people, I am wiped today. I cancelled my morning training session because I was just too tired for it, and when Kevin, who had slept badly himself, asked if I could give him a ride in to campus, I kind of wanted to cry. (I gave him a ride to the train, because I
