ok, so i am catering supper for my church tomorrow evening, and my family, who agreed to help, is falling away..........i can do it without help...but this is not how i planned it to be.....

i went to watch scw run tonight at the stadium...he did quite well.........i go to these events to talk to the other mothers just as much as to watch my son......i spoke more to the boyle mothers, for some strange reason..........one woman, who i have always envisioned as a latent hippy, is finally divorcing the husband that left her several years ago and MOVED AWAY.........because she finally figured out that he came back to danville not to the see the children but to visit his girlfriend.......she has lost weight, and could really end up with the last laugh in this whole affair...........of course, i may just be a latent hippy....but that is another story.............

ok, so i did not get the movie lost in translation, but i did enjoy the reviews that popped up on google when scarlett johansonn's name is typed in............obviously i am not existential.....gentle readers...there have been many clues to this reality, and while i am lonely, i did not 'click' with their version of loneliness.............

ok, so the pope name a slew of new cardinals last week, including one 'unnamed'..........for reasons known only to the pope...the theory is that it is someone in hong kong/china, which allows no religion let alone catholocism...but i am wondering about other possibilities.....is it me? I would make a great cardinal, despite being baptist and feminist, and somewhat disrespectful of most public shows of religious fervor.......maybe the unnamed post is reserved for the pope's 'secret friend'.....is is old and somewhat senile....maybe his childhood secret friend has returned..........

ok, so george w may have really done it this time.........when his white house leaks the name of an undercover cia operative, who happens to be the wife of the former ambassador who publically disagreed with your wof massdestruction theory that started the war...then things may get ugly for the white house..........breaking the cover of a cia operative is a felony......which puts w in a real pickle if the buck stops with him......this may be better than nixon's watergate..............

ok, so we went to all of my intended destinations except the last 2.........the yale thing was interesting, and the movie was also 'interesting'....which is shorthand for mm did not understand it......there were many funny parts, but i clearly missed the point...........bill murray was good in playing an aging actor whose best work seems to have been behind him......i did like the part where scarlet johannson says that she is mean.........ah well............

ok, so mm is looking forward to alias, tonight at 9:00...........one of the few shows that i watch faithfully..........which means that we must make it back from lex by then after all of the stops.........at least 1 goodwill, the yale recruiter at the downtown library, the kentucky theatre to see lost in translation, wild oats and joseph-beth.........that's all i have in mind.......

this morning cayle and i waited in line to go through the light at 3rd and lexington....right in front of the older rodes' new driveway....there were 2 snakes crossing their driveway..........we became concerned that they would try to cross traffic, and that we would run them over.........much as i do not like snakes i do not want them to die under my tires........thankfully, they both vered (veared,viered,veered?) off into the grass going toward the large, lovely rodes house on the corner..........

last night after work, the old-enough and the almost old-enough c-w's lined up the beers from the friday night octoberfest beertasting for our own tasting........well.........i have never tasted such things before...even when traveling in germany during octoberfest (on our honeymoon)....there was one beer that scw described as a 'belly-beer', which turned out to not be half as dark and thick as the one we finally called the 'gravy' beer...........there was one the color of pumpkin juice that had a strange, un-identifiable aftertaste that was unpleasing, another that was the color of dark urine......we did not like that one either..........there was a smooth-ish one that was semi-dark that was at least drinkable.........the kentucky light ale...not even from germany.......was the easiest to drink........i guess we of germanic origin lack the dark beer gene.....or at least it is severely suppressed.......i am reminded of our trip to lambsheim, and how cousin edwin was so pleased that our whole group liked their beer.......but i remember that beer as much lighter and smoother than any we tasted last night...........

my spouse thinks that my plan to spend a long weekend in paris in january is craziness, which means that i will probably figure out how to make it work.......i want to go to the smaller 'house' museums, and eat well both lunch and supper, and buy lots of french literature for scw's ap test/sat II test, and drink cafe au lait in cafes warmed by open fires, and order sancerre by the bottle of the wine list, and maybe find another neat needlepoint pillow kit.........that's all i want out of this potential trip........

ok, so mm slept through the alarm, and it is now 9:15 am.........too late to get dressed and to sunday school on time........so i will blow off sunday school and get dressed in leisurely fashion for church at 10:45 am..........i just cannot be rushed on sundays, which have become my sole day off........i was able to read the front page of the danville paper before scw took it away.......dawn shultz had an accident on friday, and a 48-year old woman on a motorcycle was killed............this is a parent's worst nightmare........you let your child drive on his(her) own, and you just know that disaster will happen.......i feel quite sad for the shultz family...........

ok, so setthingsonfire is now up.....just not the archives or the hosted blogs..........

ok, so stephan and i drove all the way to covington this afternoon to hear the princeton recruiter..........and arrived early because there were no traffic stoppages.......who knew?.............i will let scw blog about exactly who else was there from the greater lex/louisville/cincy area..........i just want to go on record as stating that there is a restaurant in cincy/northern ky called shanghai mamma (we had extra time so we looked at all of the travel brochures in the marriott lobby........) when i tire of mean mamma i may just transform myself into shanghai mamma...i understand that this may entail learning mandarin chinese......but no sacrifice is to heavy for art.......................

ok, so it is very mean of me to enjoy the california recall as much as i do........especially the coverage of last night's debate, which deteriorated into a shouting match of sound bytes with little actual attention to issues......it will be quite a blow to the republicans if they( as in arnold) fails to win the governor's position.........i am also pleased to see that dem candidates for president are going after bush and his iraq policy, as well as focusing hard on bush's failure to maintain the economy left by clinton......the majority of amercians do not favor throwing an extra 50 billion or so into iraq, and it is clear that neither france nor germany are going to do it either.........dubya may be left holding the empty bag next election.............

ok, so i am in loyal opposition withdrawal.........

ok, so we adults in this household have become obsessed with the big book of colleges............much more than any one fellow resident who might be looking for the right 'fit'............we enjoy looking at entrance average act/sat scores, overlap schools, liberal versus conservative bent.........we are amused that the average sat scores of many schools are less than what our beloved got in the 7th grade.......i personally like the sound of reed college in oregon, but that is too far away...........ecw likes the sound of wooster, not just because he went to school there...........my mother claims that antioch is too 'far out', so scw will probably apply.............

ok, so i am miserable without my glasses......i can see well enough to get around, but the lack of complete focus gives me deathly headaches and makes me meaner than usual..........

ok, so mm feels like such a nerd.......sometime between the party saturday night and my nap sunday afternoon, my glasses frame broke and one of the lenses has been lost.........so i am without glasses until i go to the eye doctor thursday (pre-scheduled, in that my glasses prescription was no longer working........) i can see well enough for most tasks......just cannot read very well if the print is too fine......like my textbook print for preparing for my class tomorrow...........allow me to rant for a few minutes........i watched the emmy's last night....and to my dismay everybody loves raymond won for 2 actors and best comedy.......what a joke......not everybody loves raymond, by the way....i think it's brand of humor is tired and insipid.......i was pleased that tony shaloub won for monk......now...that is comedy.........

ok, so one of mm's children commented at supper the other night that ecw and i ceased to be interesting when we quit the food coop...............that's right.....ceased to be interesting...........

ok, so mm is feeling a bit rough this morning, what with driving to cincinnati and back last night........ecw and i attended a surprise 30th wedding anniversary party for friends of his......he started elementary parochial school with the groom.....played little league on a team coached by the groom's dad.........partied hearty with the groom all through high school........but the groom decided to get married rather than go to college......which seemed foolish to everyone but the bride and groom at the time.......ecw was the best man,.....though he remembers little of the event......we were glad that we made the effort to go, because we really did have a great time.......so many people ecw remembered from the old 'parish' neighborhood of st. ceceilia.......these people never stopped going to st cecelia.........even ecw's little sister and her husband were there.....that was a pleasant surprise...........the only downside to the evening was the smoke......at least 80% of those present (an estimate-i didn't count) smoked......constantly...........and drank hard............i amy have to burn my clothes....the stench of smoke lingers.....we did enjoy the music...mostly from high school and college.............just like an old-time singalong..........some were newer tunes.........something called booty call, in which many got up and did some sort of line dance, as with the electric slide......apparantly these are big in the cincy wedding circuit...........i was not moved to dance, however...........it takes a lot more than 2 glasses of wine for me to get up and dance............

ok, so i have finished the flanders panel, and found the ending lacking.............great mysteries require that the actual bad guy have some sort of motive...........this bad guy lacked both badness (other than the fact that he killed a few people............) and opportunity to profit by his crime........so why bother, other than for the challenge of not getting caught......

ok, so mm really wants to go to paris injanuary, even if only for a few days......maybe flying out thursday jan 8 and back monday january 12- 3 nights- enough to barely get over jet lag.....but the trip could be made for about $500 in airfare and $120 in hotel per person.......

ok, so mm is reading a new book...the flanders panel......quite compelling for a suspense novel/chess lesson.......the premise is a flemish painting of 2 men playing chess with a woman in black watching........words seen only upon xray prior to restoration/auction are mysterious......who took the knight? (or who killed the knight, depending on translation of choice.........) so the story is about the restorer who is trying to find out who the people pictured were, and if the 'knight' in the picture was in fact killed.....you get it.......the plot requires that the chess game in the picture be replayed/backtracked.......quite interesting.......

ok, so mm forgot how the lo spells her new address...................

ok, so mm burst out laughing whilst driving to work......when she saw the local cardiologist driving his humvee to work.......now he lives out aways, so the 4 mpg vehicle probably ate up at least 2 gallons of fossil fuel just getting to the point at which i saw him........what kind of combat does he expect on this very day in danville? does he also carry small arms just to be on the safe side? is he being monitored by satellite with a feed to the pentagon? why not buy a tank........humvees in actual combat have not turned out to be be the safe haven first thought..........or why not hire armed guards if you are that concerned about security? or if you simply want status, why not fly your own blackhawk helicopter between the office and home and the hospital? humvees are becoming so pedestrian.......

ok, so mm went to the dhs openhouse tonight, for the very first time in the 6 years that my children have attended dhs....given the intensity of american studies, it seemed a prudent move.........

ok, so blogger now has spell check, which i will also not be using for reasons of my own.........

ok, so blogger supposedly will now allow me to add titles to my posts, but it must be added onto the template (which is in code......) so i will not be using titles, obscure or otherwise anytime soon........

ok, so mm loved this article....
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Whether it's curled up in the fetal position, flat on the stomach or stretched out across the bed, the way people sleep reveals their personality, a British sleep expert said on Tuesday.

Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service and a visiting professor at the University of Surrey in southern England, has identified six common sleep positions and what they mean.

"We are all aware of our body language when we are awake but this is the first time we have been able to see what our subconscious says about us," he said.

Crouched in the fetal position is the most popular sleep pattern and favored by 51 percent of women, according to the results of the study he conducted for a large hotel group.

Fetal sleepers tend to be shy and sensitive while people who assume the soldier position, flat on their back with arms at their sides, are quiet and reserved.

Sleeping on one's side with legs outstretched and arms down in what Idzikowski refers to as the log, indicates a social, easy-going personality. But if the arms are outstretched, the person tends to be more suspicious.

The freefall, flat on the tummy with the hands at the sides of the head, is the most unusual position. Only 6.5 percent of people prefer it and they are usually brash and gregarious.

Unassuming, good listeners usually adopt the starfish position -- on the back with outstretched arms and legs.

Idzikowski, who identified the positions by comparing personality traits of people, their preferred way of sleeping and the most common positions, said once a sleeping style is adopted it is rarely changed.

"What's interesting is that the profile behind the posture is often very different from what we would expect," he added in a statement.

ok, so mm feels a need to come clean on her sorority past............in her mid-sophomore year of college she joined chi omega sorority, whose members at the time included her cousins marilyn and becky crown...............in her senior year she was voted as the active member least likely to pay a visit to the sorority house.......a distinction she takes pride in.........while i never really bought into the entire ra-ra sisterhood thing, membership was an interesting experience......i did meet 1 person with whom i maintain contact, who i would never have met had it not been for that affiliation......when i moved to danville, the affiliation was quite valuable......i can count on both hands the people i maintain friendships with that i met in some way related to chi omega.......

ok, so mm may be blogging now that the 'upstairs' computer has been fixed.....alas, it has also be virtually wiped clean.....but that is another story....it is fixed and it is back.......i am almost finished with a heartbreaking story of staggering genius, an outstanding book of wit amongst tragedy...........a brief example..........he includes diagragms of the series of apartments in which he lives in the course of the story, not to show basic living arrangements, but to show the direction and length to which he and his brother can slide across the floor in socks.............this just cracks me up............. he includes menus that he and his brother (age 8) have concocted using their favorite ingredients (their taco recipe is curious at best) as well as an extensive set of standards by which potential girlfriends will be judged on the basis of their reaction to said menus...........i am enjoying this book immensely, and consider it to be great literature, as it is both engaging and accessible to the reader, as opposed to absalom,absalom, which was neither........

ok, so mm and her spawn went to the ky to see american splendor yesterday after church.......................such a surprise, even though i had read the reviews.........quite the poster indie movie......and so very, very cleveland........that may have been the best part.........much of it took place in lakewood....i dated a boy (probably now in prison) from lakewood.......so deja vu........i laughed loudly and often, though i am not sure that the movie was meant to be quite as funny as i found it to be.......

ok, so there are now numerous movies in lex. that i want to see.........american splendor, the swiming pool, le divorce, under the tuscan sun to name a few............hopefully i can get to lex tomorrow to see something......

i enjoyed my drive yesterday, even if no one else did......i borrowed ecw's convertable to drive with cayle to the graefenburg/lawrenceburg exit off i-64 to meet ms.rodes and transport demming and scw back to danville.....they had spent the day at the filsen club, which is the louisville historical society, working on their ind. study projects.......on the way back we dropped cayle off at anderson-dean for her soccer game, and then took the back roads back to danville......i love driving with the top down on a nice day........it makes me very happy......after dropping demming off at her home, we drove back to harrodsburg to get chinese carryout, which has been on my mind all of this week...........wah mei makes the best hotsour soup...........and then i went to bed.........i was so tired.....and at my advanced age i value sleep over many things.........

ok, so mm is feeling a bit down today.................................

ok, so book club was interesting........i, and the person who picked the book, were the only people to actually finish it.......everyone else bailed somewhere amongst the confusion that is absalom,absalom...some read only a few pages before picking up a more interesting book......i finished it because i was afraid i would be the only one there who had not finished it...........thus the discussion.......how can a book so painful to read, with such a painful story line, be considered great literature, especially when there are so many books that are so readable and with great stories............anyway, i am glad that this book is behind us.....next....to kill a mockingbird.......

ok, so some not-so-smart people live and/or eat in danville......today, we had a couple who came to eat at trc and parked in the unpaved lot across the street by working their car inside the fence, and parking in amongst the heavy equipment, and just beside where the men were preparing to pour concrete.............that takes nerve............

ok, so mm is still feeling mean, but not so exceptionally mean..........i enjoyed hearing blips from last night's dem debate....especially dennis d. kucinich from ohio, who in the distant past survived a recall vote when he was mayor of cleveland........by something like 236 votes....i only remember such details because there was a cute song written about cleveland (and the river that burned, and the ex-mayor's wife who wouldn't have dinner with mrs. gerald ford because it interfered with her bowling night......among other things) ah wel..........one of my waitresses plays volleyball for centre, and she has been keeping us abreast of the phenom named adair who will be on a cosmo cover and who will arrive back in danville with the car she won.......but is she any good at volleyball? this morning, as per usual, my junk mail file is awash in promises for fuller breasts....ha...........when i win the lottery i am having them reduced, and may even fund public service announcements warning women that large breasts are annoying both day and night....just try finding a comfortable place to put them while you sleep...........

ok, so i am feeling exceptionally mean today.......no small task for the mean mamma...........just a day that such meanness should have been allowed to stay home in bed, or better.....in my closet looking at how organized it remains 2 days later...........i have les than 24 hours to fiish absalom,absalom........such a dreary tome.......i want to get back to a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, which was easier to read despite the tragic subject matter......turns out we own the book because i bought it for andrew for christmas........so much for shortterrm memory loss.............anyway, i also need to get the remaining book club books...the ones i do not own, like grham greene's the quiet american........so i can get ahead just in case i find something else i want to read whilst i should be reading the book club book.........so many books, too little time.......

ok, so i am blgging at work while my test is printing on the copier...all 48 copies for my biggest class ever............i have been scanning cnn for late-breaking news......i am particularly intrigued by the advent of the new $20 bill this fall...the peachy one.........to m,ake the $20 more distictive, and presumably harder to fake, it will take on a peachy glow........that should coordinate well with my imagined aura, which also has a peachy glow.........alas, as a parent, i have few $20's in my possession............................

ok, so mm is growing weary of having to use the computer at work or the computer in scw's room for blogging...........when will the family computer be fixed?????the empty space at the table in the hall has truly interrupted my rhythym(SP) in the mornings.....

ok, so mm cleaned out her closet today......in a big way.......tossed into the goodwill pile things not worn in past year.......organized sweaters and shoes into neat hanging shelving things.........then reshelved about 25 books, that were lurking under my side of the bed........too much cleaning for one day....then i took a nice little nap...........

ok, so i just endured a 45 minute recruiter call.......the person being recruited has got to make up his mind and send in his resume so that we can all go back to business as usual..............

ok, so this morning's 56 degrees will surely take the lake temp down several degrees......i see my afterwork swims ending soon.......to be replaced by treadmill walking, which is not so much fun...........i am sad at the end of summer.........i enjoyed listening to bits of the dem. debate this morning on npr........i am encouraged that people like dean are going after the bush jugular when it comes to war and the economy............i see many cracks in the bush reelection armor...........also on news this morning was discussion of whether john hinckley jr should be allowed to go and visit his parents.....he has been in a mental hospital for 22 years after being aquitted by a jury of the attempted murder of reagan by reason of insanity.......the argument for letting him visit his parents.....if he had been convicted his 20 years would have been up and he would be out of prison by now.........this was the guy so in love with jody foster that he wanted to do in reagen to show her how much he cared............certainly he was more than a deranged stalker......but 22 years in a mental hospital certainly has bought him the priviledge to visit his parents in their home.........and surely he has gotten over jody, now that she has 2 children by someone else...........

ok, so mm is reading absalom,absalom for book club, and she cannot help but to invision the role of narrator (aunt rosa) who is younger than the neice in the story and who was briefly engaged to her neice's father(her late older sister's husband) played by bette davis......i cannot get bette davis out of my head when i read rosa's dialogue.........i have no faces to put to other character's, and i have gone so far to determine that there has not been a movie version of this book (at least not one sold at half.com)...........maybe madonna will want to option it and try this part for herself as a way to reinvent herself as a serious actress.............

ok, so the computer upstairs has crashed/gone haywire......whenever it is turned on, it makes a beeping sound, and no signal reaches the monitor, so it just sits there acting crazy until it is unplugged........it will not turn off by the off switch these days...........yesterday's blog was executed on scw's computer....in the hallowed hall that is his room.........in a daring daytime invasion of his personal space............

ok, so yesterday i went to lexington to do a little goodwill shopping.........drove up in ecw's convertible with the top down......lovely drive on route 68 through the palisades listening to prairie home companion..........located the goodwill on clay's mill, though was unimpressed.......whoever puts stuff on racks cannot tell men's from women's things, nor adult clothing from children's clothing.......both men's and women's shirts and pants appeared to be smashed together, plus the a.c. was out, so the store was like a sauna.....i left without purchasing anything........i did find some nice limited too and gap things for cayle..........ecw wants me to downplay the purchase of goodwill items when it comes to cayle, lest she think that she isn't worth spending money on...........or worse, that we are too poor to dress her properly.........bottom line.....i find the purchase of gently used clothing to be a fine bargain, that allows the savings to be used for travel......scw is laughing at my last statement............i will not erase it as i will not be edited by my children.........

on the way back i got caught in the tremendous downpour......it was raining so hard that i pulled off into a church parking lot to wait out the worst of it..........and listened to le show while i waited...........that is a radio broadcast that one must be in a certain mood to enjoy............