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Archive of entries posted on 25th April 2005

It’s the Coffee, Stupid

So I had my Monday coffee at Santa Cruz’s Coffeetopia. I’m not a big coffee drinker, but Monday morning has become my bit ‘o down time after the drive over the hill and prior to heading up the (much smaller) hill to teach at UCSC. Today I added a toasted bagel and cream cheese to [...]

And I think I was stressed?

“It was a lot of things together, the emotion, the stress,” she said, adding that the crowd’s booing made things worse. I’m so glad I’m not the woman in this article. This is how it goes: the minute I have a bad story … I can find someone who has a worse one! Life is [...]

Perplexed Music

EXPERIENCE, like a pale musician, holds A dulcimer of patience in his hand, Whence harmonies, we cannot understand, Of God; will in his worlds, the strain unfolds In sad-perplexed minors: deathly colds Fall on us while we hear, and countermand Our sanguine heart back from the fancyland With nightingales in visionary wolds. We murmur ‘ [...]

Concerned …

about my “blacking out experience”? Please don’t be! I’m healthy. Honest and true. I’m just healthy AND stupid sometimes! I forget to eat. Or I don’t eat well. Yeah … I really do forget to eat. It’s not something I care much about sometimes. I have other things that call out to me. The computer. [...]

TAFTO

The month of May has been deemed “Take a Friend to Orchestra” month. Read about it. —–

Don’t Mess With Me!

Practiced today? Made any reeds? Or are you gonna have to deal with Patty the Knife? (Many, many thanks to my dear husband, Dan, who managed to get a picture of me that doesn’t make me want to cry!) —–

PattyTheKnife

April 23, 2005 —–

PattyTheKnife

April 23, 2005 —–