Novel Eye

Got a bottle cap quote by Anonymous (he gets around): "The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now." I waste so much time and energy regretting and even imagining those unplanted trees that I have too little left to simply pick up the shovel now. Why do we do this to ourselves?

...except that I finally confirmed that I had the correct spelling and usage from a Japanese friend, I opened a CafePress shop . I have done absolutely nothing to promote it yet. My husband hopes to add some Dr. Whovian related items and I have a few more ideas. Two thoughts on that--one, should I report the people who are blatantly stealing copyrighted work and passing it off as their own, or leave it alone? And two, and this will only be funny to half of my tiny readership. There's a shirt that I covet there that says, "I wanted to learn Alchemy, but it costs and arm and a leg." Bwa -ha-ha, ROFL, snort. Oh, and even more one more thing--should I add "Nan dai yo, ne ?" to the back, just to be more clear?

I have decided that it might be better if I don't rehash work problems here and get back to some basic reviewing. The BIG summit is May 6-9, so I might not really be back to it until after, but before I finish with work, I do want to show one thing I am proud of: The Paragon Advisor Created entirely and edited by yours truly. It's a newsletter for aspiring financial planners, so not so exciting, but hey, I made it. There are also blogs being launched at http://www.makingcentsblog.com/ and http://www.theparagonadvisorblog.com/ . I actually didn't set these up, but have tweaked them some. I am editing most of the pieces at Making Cents, which IS for the general consumer, so feel free to comment and make my boss happy and keep me in a job. Edit: Annoyingly Making Cents is not showing the way that it should. Will have to do some checking on that on Monday. Have had some weird bugs in TypePad. Like I said, I didn't set them up.

Watched most of this this afternoon. Have to say I really enjoyed it, and Will Farrell, and you have to know that I HATE all Will Farrell movies. Like discovering that Jim Carrey can act, it was pleasant to find that Farrell could as well. While Carrey always had a commitment to a variety of characters, I always felt that Farrell was just playing the same shtick over and over (well, except for The Oblongs--the weirdest of all my favorite weird cartoons--I love, love, loved him in The Oblongs ). Always delightful to see Emma Thompson playing neurotic. It is also a very clever film about fiction and life. I would have to say it will probably be enjoyed more by people who read the kind of novels that Thompson's character writes--tragedies, not comedies.

I'm only happy when it rains I'm only happy when it's complicated And though I know you can't appreciate it I'm only happy when it rains You know I love it when the news is bad Why it feels so good to feel so sad I'm only happy when it rains Pour your misery down Pour your misery down on me Pour your misery down Pour your misery down on me I'm only happy when it rains I feel good when things are going wrong I only listen to the sad, sad songs I'm only happy when it rains I only smile in the dark My only comfort is the night gone black I didn't accidentally tell you that I'm only happy when it rains You'll get the message by the time I'm through When I complain about me and you I'm only happy when it rains Pour your misery down (Pour your misery down) Pour your misery down on me (Pour your misery down) You can keep it over me As long as you don't care I'm only happy when it rains You wanna hear about my new obsession? I'm r...

My hormones totally pwn me.

The reunion was for a scholarship group of which I was a part at college. We spoke at the luncheon and have been asked to write down what we said. This is mine below. I feel inadequate in this group. Many were Vietnamese "Boat People," refugees who fled after the war in unspeakable conditions. Others grew up in Harlem, NY or Compton in Los Angeles. They went to schools you hear about on shows like NYPD Blue, Law and Order or Boomtown and think, "Thank God, I didn't have to live through that." Guns, shootings, worse. And yet through determination and some intervention by people who recognized their innate talent they attended Amherst and thrived. I chose Amherst for some very good reasons, and one rather silly one. My high school didn’t promote better schools or encourage application, despite the fact that many students did test well and could have attended their choice of schools. In fact, when I told my counselor that I wanted to attend Amherst, he tol...

You get bawled out and you can't cry (or kick them in the shins). Well, I stood my own at least. And I'm more angry/annoyed than sad. I have three major projects going on at work: Planning the conference for May 6-9 Overseeing the development of the two new websites which are supposed to go live on May 1 Building myself a Practice Development Newsletter that will go out monthly and collects articles from several sources Then I have several small projects: The general weekly Newsletter which takes most of Wednesday Transition work for JT Other updates and projects etc. The first three depend on my boss. Today he informed me in no certain terms that he wasn't happy with the second project--the websites. He already had major "corrections" to item 3 that took most of yesterday, last night and this morning. Now, the stupid thing is that he's had a chance to offer input on all of these things at several points along the way, but through his own stupidity didn't ...

Actually the first part of this came to me--in that it actually happened--and I was trying to get it into a poem form for a few weeks. I'm not sure it works--like I'm trying too hard. I saw a crow motionless atop a pole So black and still he seemed a paper silhouette , the outline of a crow And seeing him, my focus dwindled, rendering the world flat as a photograph as when a flock of birds will look no more than charcoal marks across the sky.

No reason in particular--always timely. President Gas The Psychedelic Furs you have to have a party when you're in a state like this you can really move it all you have to vote and change you have to get right out of it like out of all this mess you'll say yeah to anything if you believe all this but don't cry, don't do anything no lies, back in the government no tears, party time is here again president gas is up for president line up, put your kisses down say yeah, say yes again stand up, there's a head count president gas on everything but roller skates it's sick the price of medicine stand up, we'll put you on your feet again open up your eyes just to check that your asleep again president gas is president gas again he comes in from the left sometimes he comes in from the right it's so heavily advertised that he wants you and i it's a real cowboy set, electric company every day is happy days it's hell without the sin, but don't cry, don...