Remembering

I remember it being a regular morning, until an orker came in and asked me to check the news online, because the radio wasn't giving enough information. I'd done my usual morning check, and was surprised that this guy, usually focused on work all the time, was asking for my 'expertise' in getting information online. And then I found out what was going on, and couldn't believe it. And the news got worse, and no one could really work. Queue came in, concerned about his grandparents, newly moved to DC, and I tried to comfort him. I barely thought about the actual people I knew in NYC, not yet believing what had happened, really. It was a huge special effect, right? That can't happen here, right? And yet.

I remember going home, and there being no one around. I needed an outlet, and pushed myself onto the bicycle, going harder, faster, anything to make it not real. OPN happened on a non-Wednesday, and I stopped in, needing people, until there was some political discussion I couldn't bear to be by, and went home, still in shock of some sort.

I just dug out my paper journal, and ( read. )

And for the more recent disaster, remembering what I never saw through the photos in ZebraArtist's journal.

...and some joy

My friend Z is now the mother of a second baby boy. Mazel tov to her, her husband, and her other son, a wonderful three-and-a-half-year-old (source of many fun stories :-).
(Now I really have to finish the kippah for the boy; the one for the baby is finished.)

Two other women I know had baby boys this week. And most of the other women I know who were pregnant this year had boys... whassup with that?

nattering

You know your brain is an odd place when you think the lycopene in tomatoes makes them a perfect food for werewolves.

deep cow thoughts: rumenations

unanticipated T-shirt: golem crossing guard
(thank you!)

Paranoia Agent is really, really weird. Deeply strange, in fact. I've been told other anime is more coherent, at least.

other good things: international email, hugs, chili with cheese, interesting photos, exploratory walks, Cities & Knights in real time