I'm getting lazy...
Yeah, so, I've not been doing so well at that 'writing every day' thing, lately. Which is too bad, because I have an idea for a book...an honest-to-goodness memoir, that deals with the questions of just how far family loyalty should go. Yeah, just after I stopped going to USU, my family had a meltdown, and I suddenly discovered that we were just as dysfunctional as everyone else. But it seems to be getting better--slowly.
In my defense, it's hard to remain excited about writing when you're stressed about how you're going to recover from a string of bounced checks (all because someone DIDN'T mail a paycheck when they said they would...)--including the rent check for this month. It's the last one hanging over my head...and it doesn't help that the new complex owners are NOT very understanding about such things (I hope the manager IS actually doing all the stuff he tells me he is, and not just trying to make himself sound like the good guy, or I could be looking at finding another apartment in a couple of weeks.) I have a hard time feeling sympathetic when I'm still piece-meal patching stuff in my apartment that was supposed to be fixed when I moved in. It also doesn't improve my attitude any to be stuck with a furnace that's so old and ineffectual that it's cheaper to heat my apartment with space heaters (notoriously inefficient devices, but they do a helluva lot better job than the furnace, which has NEVER blown hot air, in the entire time I've lived here. Sometimes it manages to get to lukewarm...) and insulation so poor that the plastic I put over my windows is warmer than the walls it's stapled onto.
Life isn't as bad as I make it sound. I just get grumpy like this when I've got a stress headache that won't go away. I have been having some fun at work, doing some touch-up and reconstruction work on some of the Halloween 'stalkabout' characters that they have roaming the park...I don't know just how effective a couple of my repairs are going to be; but I got the job because nobody else knew anything better. So we'll see how long my repairs hold up. I'll have to post some pics of the characters, when I'm done with them all...it's a joke with a couple of my friends that those were my Valentines Day dates (and you thought YOUR date was creepy, Nick...at least it was real flesh and blood...)
Yeah, on that note...I think I'm done. I'm going to grab a snack, and fall asleep in front of the Olympics again. I'd skip it tonight, but I missed the earlier broadcast because I was watching the Monty Python Personal Best specials on PBS (I think that group would have been SUCH a kick to work with...)
Oh, yeah, that does remind me...one thing I did want to comment on, regarding the Olympics. Some may snicker at this, but I love watching the figure skating. And as I was watching the short program last night, I couldn't help but be struck by the fact that EVERY SINGLE skater did some kind of arched-back-reach-up-and-pull-my-skate-blade-down-to-my-head move. Some of them were kind of cool, some of them were kind of awkward...
I don't remember that being a particularly common move. In fact, I remember when Oksana Baiul was in the Olympics, it was a big deal because she COULD do that. Has this become some kind of required move, now? Part of the checklist?--"Triple jump, triple-double combination, grab your skate, serpentine footwork sequence, combination spin..." It was pretty neat to see, when it was an uncommon thing...it's still interesting to see, if they can find some fluid means to get into the grab. But it just DOESN'T work when people just grab to do it. Y'know, play to your strengths...if you can't make it look good, please don't try it. We want to see skaters looking fluid and superhumanly graceful--that's the whole appeal of the sport, if you don't know how to skate (like me).
And I do have to say, I was excited to see Emily Hughes do so well. In a way, she's in a perfect situation...she was an alternate, got there late, never competed on this level before...there's no pressure, no expectations on her, really. She had every excuse imaginable to have a rough night--but she was solid. Not polished--but solid. Think we're gonna be hearing her name again. It made me happy to see all three American skaters qualified for the free skate. Can't wait to see that.
Yeah, so, I've not been doing so well at that 'writing every day' thing, lately. Which is too bad, because I have an idea for a book...an honest-to-goodness memoir, that deals with the questions of just how far family loyalty should go. Yeah, just after I stopped going to USU, my family had a meltdown, and I suddenly discovered that we were just as dysfunctional as everyone else. But it seems to be getting better--slowly.
In my defense, it's hard to remain excited about writing when you're stressed about how you're going to recover from a string of bounced checks (all because someone DIDN'T mail a paycheck when they said they would...)--including the rent check for this month. It's the last one hanging over my head...and it doesn't help that the new complex owners are NOT very understanding about such things (I hope the manager IS actually doing all the stuff he tells me he is, and not just trying to make himself sound like the good guy, or I could be looking at finding another apartment in a couple of weeks.) I have a hard time feeling sympathetic when I'm still piece-meal patching stuff in my apartment that was supposed to be fixed when I moved in. It also doesn't improve my attitude any to be stuck with a furnace that's so old and ineffectual that it's cheaper to heat my apartment with space heaters (notoriously inefficient devices, but they do a helluva lot better job than the furnace, which has NEVER blown hot air, in the entire time I've lived here. Sometimes it manages to get to lukewarm...) and insulation so poor that the plastic I put over my windows is warmer than the walls it's stapled onto.
Life isn't as bad as I make it sound. I just get grumpy like this when I've got a stress headache that won't go away. I have been having some fun at work, doing some touch-up and reconstruction work on some of the Halloween 'stalkabout' characters that they have roaming the park...I don't know just how effective a couple of my repairs are going to be; but I got the job because nobody else knew anything better. So we'll see how long my repairs hold up. I'll have to post some pics of the characters, when I'm done with them all...it's a joke with a couple of my friends that those were my Valentines Day dates (and you thought YOUR date was creepy, Nick...at least it was real flesh and blood...)
Yeah, on that note...I think I'm done. I'm going to grab a snack, and fall asleep in front of the Olympics again. I'd skip it tonight, but I missed the earlier broadcast because I was watching the Monty Python Personal Best specials on PBS (I think that group would have been SUCH a kick to work with...)
Oh, yeah, that does remind me...one thing I did want to comment on, regarding the Olympics. Some may snicker at this, but I love watching the figure skating. And as I was watching the short program last night, I couldn't help but be struck by the fact that EVERY SINGLE skater did some kind of arched-back-reach-up-and-pull-my-skate-blade-down-to-my-head move. Some of them were kind of cool, some of them were kind of awkward...
I don't remember that being a particularly common move. In fact, I remember when Oksana Baiul was in the Olympics, it was a big deal because she COULD do that. Has this become some kind of required move, now? Part of the checklist?--"Triple jump, triple-double combination, grab your skate, serpentine footwork sequence, combination spin..." It was pretty neat to see, when it was an uncommon thing...it's still interesting to see, if they can find some fluid means to get into the grab. But it just DOESN'T work when people just grab to do it. Y'know, play to your strengths...if you can't make it look good, please don't try it. We want to see skaters looking fluid and superhumanly graceful--that's the whole appeal of the sport, if you don't know how to skate (like me).
And I do have to say, I was excited to see Emily Hughes do so well. In a way, she's in a perfect situation...she was an alternate, got there late, never competed on this level before...there's no pressure, no expectations on her, really. She had every excuse imaginable to have a rough night--but she was solid. Not polished--but solid. Think we're gonna be hearing her name again. It made me happy to see all three American skaters qualified for the free skate. Can't wait to see that.
posted by Curtis at 11:26 PM
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I'm a dirty old man,but I like Sasha Cohen. Snowboard cross Rules!
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