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14171. robertjayb - 3/15/2005 10:47:02 PM Arky: For those holes in your head...(NYTimes)
Have you tried humming?
No! Not that... 14172. Magoseph - 3/16/2005 12:36:03 AM Okay, now I know that you come here only to read Arky’s posts, Robert—my feelings for you are grievously hurt, I want you to know.
thoughtful linked the article Arky: For those holes in your head...(NYTimes) in Post # 14158. 14173. arkymalarky - 3/16/2005 1:14:21 AM Awwww, now Mags!
Robert, when I hum it makes my ears itch.
Judith,
Bob was on it one time when he had the flu and he about went ape. He swears he will never take it again. I think it's what gave me the energy to finally get my grades done this afternoon. I'm beginning to wonder if I have some kind of bug. Sinus infections don't normally knock me down this hard. I am better, though. It's back to the grindstone tomorrow. 14174. arkymalarky - 3/16/2005 1:15:49 AM Rut ro 14175. arkymalarky - 3/16/2005 1:16:59 AM And that goes for any kind of humming, btw, lest you think I didn't get your joke (which I didn't, until just now). 14176. judithathome - 3/16/2005 1:18:58 AM What about that time you got so sick on the way to Colorado?
Anyhow, promise me if you aren't felling better you'll let us know.
And what does it look like, weather-wise? Here, the weekend is going to be in the low 60s with some rain. 14177. arkymalarky - 3/16/2005 1:23:14 AM On the way up I had a terrible colon attack and on the way back I had a terrible chest cold from a sinus infection migrating downward in the dry climate. Boy, was that a fun vacation.
I promise I'll let you know by Thursday evening (after parent/teacher conferences) if I'm feeling bad, but right now I feel like a good night's sleep and I'll be a lot better tomorrow morning.
I haven't looked at the weather. I'm pulling it up now. 14178. arkymalarky - 3/16/2005 1:28:01 AM Sounds really nice--partly cloudy and highs in the low sixties. 14179. judithathome - 3/16/2005 1:30:57 AM Good! That sounds perfect! 14180. arkymalarky - 3/16/2005 1:32:32 AM You're really going to love Old Washington. 14181. judithathome - 3/16/2005 2:30:24 AM Oh, I know...we've been to an Acadian village in Canada where they live and work just like "back in the day" and we loved it. They were making soap and using looms to make cloth and doing blacksmithing work. It was very educational. 14182. arkymalarky - 3/16/2005 5:58:06 AM My students really enjoyed the field trip there this fall, with the Civil War theme. They were interested and enthusiastic about everything the whole time we were there and still mention it occasionally--except the long lunch line. They hadn't really prepared very well for a bunch of kids. They've got a very cool gun museum, too.
This place is near there somewhere, but I've never been able to find it. I got one bar of their soap one time as a gift and it was wonderful. Bro gets me homemade soap from Mt View, but it's not as nice as this--though it is very nice. 14183. Magoseph - 3/16/2005 10:17:57 PM Paris--Flowers outside a shop signal the onset of spring.
 14184. Magoseph - 3/16/2005 10:24:44 PM Hello—good news this morning—Flexy had another carotid artery Doppler test and it is fine. Six months ago, he was told that if it did not improve, he would have the operation. In the meantime, I am on my third dentist appointment and feeling much better.
What’s new with you?
14185. arkymalarky - 3/16/2005 11:40:15 PM Good for you and Flexy Mags! Great to have some good news for a change. 14186. Magoseph - 3/17/2005 12:09:02 PM Arky, yes, it is, but there is always something or someone to spoil the day. I received a late birthday card with a letter from my elder sister berating me for forsaking the family, for becoming a citizen of this country and for not having French kids because our privileged upbringing demanded that I live in France in order to give back what I received there—I am not kidding. There is much more about family particulars and behaviors, especially about my brother and his wife. Almost every sentence is an attack on them or me. My brother is for her the devil incarnate, someone who made his money who knows how, and is now snobbish and uncaring.
Never mind that her memory is faulty about our upbringing, that what she says about my brother and his wife is false because both are very unassuming people--it is nevertheless depressing to see how far envy can deform a character to this point. Naturally, I will not answer her and I will receive another missive, but this time I will send it back unopened. Enough is enough because I must watch my blood pressure, which I feel rising each time I read this woman’s divagations. 14187. alistairconnor - 3/17/2005 2:02:08 PM Those flowers came from a Dutch hothouse, so they don't really count...
BUT I can report that the snow is almost all melted at my place... temperature up to about 20 C, (from minus ten two weeks ago), the primeveres are out, the ponies have escaped from their paddock...
it's spring alright. 14188. alistairconnor - 3/17/2005 2:06:50 PM There's nothing much to be done about family. An elder sibling who thinks they retain some sort of moral ascendancy over you as an adult... that's a common misconception.
You've made your choices, you owe "France" nothing. 14189. Magoseph - 3/17/2005 4:49:44 PM Sorry for the rant, Ali and thanks for the good words. 14190. robertjayb - 3/17/2005 5:36:21 PM Speaking of words:
Barely into the second cup of coffee when I encounter this:
divagation
noun
An instance of digressing: aside, deviation, digression, divergence, divergency, excursion, excursus, irrelevancy, parenthesis, tangent. See approach/retreat.
Oh well, it's good to know a new word, but working this one into the palaver down at the feed store is going to be difficult.
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