Back to normal
We’re beginning to pull ourselves back together here in San Diego after a very long, nerve-jangling week. For those of us who live a reasonable distance from last week’s fires, life has gotten back to normal pretty quickly. Students have returned to school, and Qualcomm stadium, which served as the …
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The Mercury Retrograde-iest
Damn. Enough with the Mercury retrograde, already! My computer decided last weekend was the perfect time to have a nervous breakdown – deadlines and Mercury Rx be damned. So we spent the whole damn weekend building and configuring a new system. Almost a week later I’m still installing apps and …
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Most Popular Wedding Date Ever
Apparently brides and grooms will be hurling themselves down the aisle in record numbers on July 7, 2007, under the assumption that (1) 7 is a lucky number; and so (2) a wedding date of 7/7/07 just has to be triple tremendously lucky. One wonders, of course, whether this “luck” …
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Local news.
We continue to settle into a new routine around here, and it’s going pretty smoothly so far. The spouse has been having a lively time of it at work, though, since Mercury turned retrograde the day after he started and his first task was to buy a computer for himself …
Read MoreThursday Thirteen, Vol. 26
Painting by my brilliant pal Claudia. Hi! Long time no blog. Every now and then you just have to curl into a fetal position and let the world pass you by for awhile, yes? Took a few days off last week and zipped up to L.A. for a couple of …
Read MoreMercury in Leo: What do *you* think of me?
Mercury entered Leo last night, so I’m getting ready to have a Mercury return. I’m a little bit void-of-course at the moment, though, and not exactly sparkling with Mercurial wit. I just turned in a proposal that I’ve been worrying over like a sore tooth for a couple of months, …
Read MoreThe Retrograde Do-Over
My teacher liked to say that you should, as much as possible, do only things you like when Mercury is retrograde, “because you’ll end up doing them again and again and again.” Well, apparently we really enjoyed buying that air conditioner last Friday. Because as we speak Jonny is on …
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Air conditioning, Mercury retrograde style!
Okay, so we’re bad people: we decided to buy a second air conditioner, even though we really can’t afford to run the one we already have. The heat shows no sign of letting up, and the bedroom that serves as a guestroom/office has become uninhabitable for guests (of which we’re …
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Last degree wonkiness
Was it just me, or did the past couple of days seem sort of Mercury retrograde-ish? A series of technical difficulties too exhausting to recount here in detail (problems with my recording software, my printer in nervous collapse, errant report binding machine, etc., etc.) had me scurrying to my trusty …
Read MoreDoes anybody really know what time it is?
Mercury is careening enthusiastically, if not always consciously, through Aries. Perhaps this explains a recent spate of rather retrograde-ish scheduling bloopers around here. It goes like this. We had planned a small dinner party for Saturday night with a few friends. On Friday evening, one of the invited rings us …
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