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So I was telling a friend that 2011 is going to be austerity year for us and she said, wow, us too. Then she sent me this from thebigpicture newsletter – note the second bullet. Tuesday Long Reads Merriam-Webster’s most searched word in 2010: Austerity Inflation stat update Kass: Surprises for 2011 The Dark Side of the Gold Boom – Part II: Toxic Gold in Nigeria LEH: Its All Good Now! Europe still can’t turn…
I went out with friends last night for dinner and the youngest of us was about to turn 50. Our waiter was this sassy, handsome young fey boy who tickled us with his youthful naivete and good humor. We all came home and watched Sordid Lives, yes, one of us had a DVD of it in his truck – go figure. I fell asleep halfway through and had to crawl home, but I do want…
Minutes before midnight tonight the sun will have tilted the farthest away from the earth as it is going to get for a year and we will be in midwinter, or the beginning of winter, and for that minute or so of the Winter Solstice we will have the shortest day and the longest night. However, it is 74 degrees here and about 100 percent humidity so it sure doesn’t feel like Winter. I look…
I was reading in the New York Times Magazine about this physicist who believes in parallel universes and it was a very timely read as lately I have been having these weird photo frame occurrences. I’ll be speaking to someone and I blink and then it’s as if the frame / lens has changed to a sharper hue or just a slightly different frame. I have noticed this many times lately and it is slightly…
I had a fitful sleep tracking the itinerary of T square coming home as the flight out of Zagreb delayed, the flight out of Paris delayed. They are still in Paris, yet to board, as the flight is now two hours delayed and Charles de Gaulle is a mess. I have called Delta Airlines about fifty times in the last 24 hours and I have this to say about that – every person I have…
I told you I didn’t like snow, not one bit. And now snow has paralyzed Europe and cancelled flights and wrecked havoc across all major European airports. I’m crossing my fingers the flight from Zagreb to Paris tomorrow is smooth and there is clear sailing through the Charles de Gaulle airport. Good grief. Who wants to travel in the middle of December? I ask you.
My brother is obsessed about the fact that China is buying up tons of gold and he wants me to answer why they would be doing this. I don’t know. My guess was that China is not cooperating with the rest of the world and so they are affecting currencies and so as the dollar stays down, gold stays up. He says that what is keeping gold up is China buying it. But why? Anybody…
So last night I had this really interesting dream where I was preparing to enter the office of a potential business partner with this business idea I have and was feeling pretty confident and chipper, and then when I started to go inside, I fell down a ravine, and had sticks and leaves and brambles all in my hair and people came out to dust me off and then we walked into the meeting together…
I’ve always marveled how some of the smartest people I know are lousy spellers. Isn’t that odd? I got this note from T just this morning after she had held up the Serbian slippers that Tin was wearing and a pair she is bringing home for me: we are coming with eastern european sleepers A parapraxis maybe, but I call it phonetical confusion brought on by being raised with a language where you spell what…
Last night the moon was gorgeous as it rose over the horizon beyond the bayou – the light was especially magical. But there was a melancholy mood in the air as one neighbor’s house guests were getting ready to depart this morning, and my other neighbor learned a good friend had lost his battle with cancer, and I was getting tired of my empty house and Tin’s toys being so perfectly arranged and Tatjana’s side…