@Region Philbis,
He just showed up on Penny's "people you should know" list.
Took a moment to figger it out.
Then I grinned.
My young cousin mentioned she thought that animal massage would be a good thing to get into (and thought she was the only person who'd ever thought of it and people would think she was weird). Well I'm a librarian, I told her it does exist, found the international association and then found a course about to open enrolments in her local College of technical and further education (TAFE).
Made me happy to help turn a daydream into a concrete possibility. And I like making jokes about her being a guinea pig specialist.
What made you smile today?
I'm kinda like a baby - is it cause I'm happy or do I just have gas?
1) BillW is back..
2) I got a wonderful card in the mail. It is an answer to last year's holiday missive from me. Most responded, which was good, but three people I care about didn't.
I should have just telephoned, but first didn't want to chase people, and then one of them was off for six months in Hawaii where I don't have the address.. anyhow, I didn't do anything about the three.
Today's card was from one of them, wishing me Merry Christmas 2009. (She was alway nice and sardonic.) Has been very depressed, and some 'so on' re that, which trust me, I understand. Thinks of me often. (She does?) I love this woman, though it has been decades since we were closer.
She was, cough, my dishwasher. Well, at the last lab of my employ, before I quit and changed fields. She was also a sharp student at a local city college, the first vegetarian I'd run across, great wit. She and her husband searched the library and found a state where they could both go to school and get scholarships/help, she for university and he for law school. They did well. She first as a tv anchor type, then a newspaper person, he in government. What can I say, I liked her mind, much more plastic (in the good sense of the word, maybe more like elastic, than mine - she is one of the people I remember teaching me about play, re art or thinking); I liked her and her husband together.
That was a good lab at the working level. Another dishwasher was in dental school, and a specimen checker sailed through Cal Tech biochem degrees (I still wonder how she is) and our friend, specimen checker, from Eritrea, advanced in the hospital world. Sparky people.
Sooooo good to hear from her.
3) I thought I posted on this in the last week or two, but maybe not, can't find the maybe post. Anyway, my drafting teacher - when I signed up for a drafting class as a way to possibly make some money in art instead of at lab work - has remained a friend over decades.
He and his partner were visiting a friend in Albuquerque and emailed/called.
Such a good lunch. I have a new friend and an old friend.
@ossobuco,
Quote:found a state where they could both go to school and get scholarships
She should have gone to Cork in Ireland. There's a university there where you can get a first class honours degree in advanced nuclear physics or surface colloidal chemistry, if that's what floats your boat, for £50. No questions asked.
@spendius,
Quote:found a state where they could both go to school and get scholarships
spendius wrote:
She should have gone to Cork in Ireland. There's a university there where you can get a first class honours degree in advanced nuclear physics or surface colloidal chemistry, if that's what floats your boat, for £50. No questions asked.
Is smiling consistent with keeping a stiff upper lip ??
both the kids curled up in a big furry feline ball on my bed, sharing a sunbeam nap.
@Rockhead,
Love dem curled up felines, RH.
Today was a day of arrivals. I've been waiting to be paid for three jobs I did a couple of months ago. I'm usually paid faster than this, but the company I free-lance for changed its payment system.
Broke ain't the word for it. Well, yes, it is. No money, no food, no nothing. A very dear, kind, generous friend got me a gift certificate from FreshDirect, so I could have some food in the house and my refrigerator wouldn't echo when I opened the door.
Today the checks and the food arrived.
I'm gonna eat tonight. Then I'll deposit the checks manana. After the bank, I'm heading for the dental clinic. That will probably be the end of the smiles.
@spendius,
Ah, well, they got real degrees, some long time ago.
@Roberta,
hooray for checks...
I spent the afternoon at the library researching the vacuum system on an old Porsche that won't run for mr vw.
hopefully tomorrow I fix it and get paid as well.
your friend makes me smile, B...
@Rockhead,
Yeah, I came in second to Ernest Borgnine.
@sozobe,
OU beat OSU, I know it was Saturday - but it will put a smile on my face every morning for a week. Then, if OU beats Nebraska Saturday, the smile will be there for a long, long time. Beat Conneticut!
@BillW,
Which OSU? My OSU (Ohio State University) beat Michigan nice and thoroughly on Saturday. Wisconsin had the bad manners to then beat Northwestern which means we probably won't go to the Rose Bowl, but we're still top 10 and probably will go to one bowl or another.
@sozobe,
The one OU always beats - Oklahoma State U.
@BillW,
Figured that was probably it, but Ohio State pasting Michigan made me smile too.
@sozobe,
BTW, next year you get Nebraska and a conference championship game. I think that Michigan and Ohio State are in opposite divisions so you could technically have the traditional OSU/Mich game and then play each other again the next week!
