Mambo Taxi

I just got a package in the mail, from Cat and Girl. I am now the owner of the original sketch/ink artwork for Birds of America and this makes me really happy.

Meet the Robinsons is a really charming science-fiction movie, sort of a cross between "Up," "Back to the Future," and "The Addams Family." I now have the DVD, and it stands up to a 2nd viewing, which I wasn't sure of since I first saw it on a tiny airplane seat-back screen with crappy headphones. But yeah. Recommended.

I'm busy, and that feels good, and not like burnout.

Yesterday I co-led a visioning session in the Quaker Meeting, and we accomplished a lot in 90 minutes. The theme was the needs of each of us and all of us together; what should we focus our attentions on in the Meeting. The conversation included a number of areas we've needed to talk about more, if we're going to be a strong community. I see this as a very good step. It was draining but also energizing. Ya know?

Today at work, I had three items on my plate I really wanted to get done, and I did. And then I went to the gym, which was a much better use of that 45 minutes than staying at work.

And then dan and I went home for dinner, and dan dropped me off on his way to chorus rehearsal, and I did an evening of Quaker work with 6 people I like a lot. 90 minutes later, I was very much ready to come home again, but not feeling burned out or stressed. Even though I have 9 new things on my to-do list.

'Cause I haven't seen this on my f'list yet, and it came up over lunch today with chezmax : Do The Test is a clever ad.

Via dpolicar.

I'm awake with a head-ache, after a dream where I was lost in an airport. Bleh.

I forgot to blog a funny moment yesterday morning. I went for coffee with three of the four Kinesiology instructors whose offices are in the same suite as mine. We brought back our Tim's, and sat around talking. I'm fairly social with them, and have been working with them for just over a year, and while I've felt different from them for what they're interested in (mostly their families) and what they do (lecture) it was surprising to me to discover all of these in the same conversation:

All of them have two-car garages. All of them have a new HD TV, on which they watched new movies they all agreed were great which I hadn't felt much need to see, like "The Bourne Ultimatum."

Should I be at all surprised that none of them had heard of Pedro Almodovar, and none had ever heard of "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown"? One remarked on the title as peculiar- and I spent a minute describing the movie to them, which I think didn't go far toward convincing any of them they needed to see it. I don't know; I was surprised; I expected they might have recalled the title. On the other hand, of the movies they gave thumbs-up to, I thought "The Rock" might be an action movie set in Newfoundland. _{Well, not really.}

I feel vaguely like bats22's sister: "they don't watch Spanish world cinema! How can it be?"

(Though of course if it were her, it would have to be some aspect of normal life that she discovered by reading legal briefs, not by, y'know, sitting around over coffee...)

K, time to go back to bed now.