– WEEKEND – Nice. Relaxing. Stay innable.
On FRIDAY, I finally installed the pot rack that Becky got us for the wedding. It took all morning, essentially, though I also gave the place a quick clean. In the afternoon, I did all the inane financial tasks I’ve been putting off, such as applying for a credit card and organizing the bills and paystubs.

Birthstone:

GARNET

Virtue:

COURAGE

Flower:

CARNATION

Source: The Hunting Botanical Gardens
The Shakespeare Garden

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– Stayed home most of yesterday, though in the evening, Jess and I went out to a cafe with Matt.
– I’ve updated my resume and vitae and created an Urbantasm website adjunct to this one. Let me know what you think…
– I’ve been gotten down a bit… I can’t get the creepy Gacy song from the new Sunjan Stevens album out of my head, and I keep imagining those toothed worm-creatures from King Kong.

It is to not approach from a distance but to be close and familiar.
It is to be cynical at will about the world at large, but naive and ready for possibilities.
It is to understand that something fundamental trumps earthbound cynicism.

– Yesterday was somewhat uneventful at work. I finished indexing the Earth Sciences diagrams (learning about the longest rivers, the tallest mountains (which are all in the Himalayas), and the comparative sizes of the continents. After work, however, I caught the N train to Union Square and walked to Veselka’s at 2nd Ave.

– Last night was frustrating. I had a number of goals and failed at almost all of them. What this means? That inertia doesn’t go away completely just because of winter brake. On the other hand, my spirit was buoyed by Sufjan Steven’s new album, Feel the Illinoise which I got for Christmas.

– I’m not going to talk right here about Jess and my vacation to Michigan and Ohio, except to say that it was great, and that we got to see lots of people. Hopefully, in the near sometime, we’ll be able to take a trip to Chicago to catch up with that crowd.

The sumup is here.

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O Emmanuel, you are our king and judge, the One whom the peoples await and their Savior. O come and save us, Lord, our God.

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I will not be posting over the next ten days, and I don’t expect I will be spending much time reading your blogs either.

The sumup is here.

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O King whom all the peoples desire, you are the cornerstone which makes all one. O come and save man whom you made from clay.

If you don’t mind something blatantly Christian (I didn’t growing up Unitarian, but then, I may have not been the most discriminating audience at eight), I highly recommend the Charlie Brown Christmas Special.

The sumup is here.

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O Rising Sun, you are the splendor of eternal light and the sun of justice. O come and enlighten those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death.