Archive: December 2003
Firefly
My daughter received the Firefly DVD for Christmas, and we’ve been watching one or two episodes per day. What a great show! Interesting characters, really witty dialog, comic plotting … I wish there was more!
I’m not interested so much in a Firefly movie; I like the idea of the slow unfolding of events and characterization [...]
Unsuccessful
I am not a good disability activist. I don’t have enough staying power. Might have something to do with how I’m so tired all the time.
I went to the board of my choir last year and got permission to look for a new, more wheelchair-accessible rehearsal facility. Spent weeks on the phone during November and [...]
Lazy days after Christmas
This time off work thing is very fine.
I finished The Life of Pi, which my son gave me for my birthday, and The Dress Lodger, a Christmas gift from my sister-in-law. Both were very thought-provoking, not light bedtime reading.
Today my husband and I drove up into Rocky Mountain National Park and he was shocked to [...]
Christmas report
It’s been an interesting holiday. We have no guests, and we didn’t go anywhere. I tend to get a little morose about the tension between celebrating German-style, the way I was raised, and celebrating American-style, like my husband’s family, and this year managed to get more morose than usual.
(German-style: on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, [...]
Glurge
I learned an excellent new word today: glurge.
From The Word Spy:
(GLURJ) n. A sentimental or uplifting story, particularly one delivered via e-mail, that uses inaccurate or fabricated facts; a story that is mawkish or maudlin; the genre consisting of such stories.
There must be a special subset of these stories dealing with disabilities and/or handicaps, like [...]
Today
Today is my birthday.
Today is the first day of two weeks off work, which I am so ready for.
Today I managed to find Christmas tree candles, thank goodness (because it’s a little too late to get relatives to mail them from Germany, my usual source). Yes, that’s candles that go on the tree that we [...]
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