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I have the makings of a migraine today. The headache is lurking and waiting to leap out at me, but I keep taking pain meds to keep it at bay. The headache is there, but it’s sort of a dull ache, not the debilitating, blinding full blown kind that I get every once in a while.
I blame the barometric pressure, which has dropped like a rock. We are having a N’or Easter. Fortunately it’s all rain because if this was happening in the winter they say we’d be getting about thirty inches of snow.
It’s a cold, raw, driving rain, but it’s a damn site better than three feet of snow!
The thing is that the drivers who are idiots when they drive in the snow continue to be idiots driving in the rain!
Rehearsal was so-so tonight. I guess that the director was trying to make it interesting and varied, but I was uninspired. But the ache in my head didn’t make me much feel like singing anyway.
I’ve decided to try to learn a couple of songs in baritone. I’m bored. I need a challenge. I might hate it and not be able to do it, but at least it will give me something else to try. I’m not sure I’ll be able to "hear" the baritone notes, so this is strictly experimental. I’m a lead at heart.
Work continues to spiral out of control. There are so many activities going on for the kids at the end of the year that I can’t get the kids that I need to test. I hate having to make them miss some fun activity, but that’s what I have to do. Time is running out and the parents want all of this testing to be finished and meetings held by June 16.
I will be so surprised if I manage to make it and get all this paperwork done.
I can’t remember the last time that I saw the top of my desk. There are stacks and stacks of files and folders. My "to do" list is in fluorescent pink and the size of Santa’s Christmas list.
I keep bringing work home, but I barely make a dent in it. I have great intentions and lousy follow through!
My stamping convention is this weekend in Springfield and I haven’t made a single pin to trade. Last year I made one hundred and ten. This year zip, nada. And I don’t think there’s a snowball’s chance in hell that it’s going to change. I know I’ll be disappointed on Saturday when I don’t get any pins, but I just don’t think I’m going to find the time to get anything done.
I’m not even revved for the convention. That’s probably because they’ve moved it from the Boston area to western Massachusetts, and it’s going to take me an hour and a half to get there. For the last two years it’s only taken me fifteen minutes. I’m not looking forward to the drive.
But I don’t go I’ll never forgive myself.
Maybe I’ll get more excited as the weekend draws closer.
Listening to: Don Henley
Reading: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Weather: 50, and pouring
Trivia: Where is the largest salt lake in the world?
The largest salt lake is Salar de Uyuni, a vast expanse of brine and salt flats in the parched, remote southwestern corner of the South American country of Bolivia. With an area over 12,000 square kilometers (4600 square miles), Salar de Uyuni is the remains of what was once a much larger body of water. As the climate changed the lake evaporated, leaving behind extremely salty water and huge expanses of salt pan. Other salt lakes and salt pans also dot the high desert of southwest Bolivia, some of them hosting huge flocks of pink flamingoes. Also found in that region are active volcanoes, steaming fumaroles and geysers, and the only hotels in the world made entirely of salt.
Cool word: madeleine [n. MAA-dil-un or maa-dil-ANE]
The small, rich, shell-shaped cake that is called a madeleine has a tasty tale to tell. This French pastry that involves whipping flour, eggs, sugar, and lots of butter to incorporate air first came to broad fame in the 19th century. The origins of the name are uncertain, but it is often traced back to the French pastry cook Madeleine Paumier. This is already a sweet history for the word, but madeleine was truly immortalized by French author Marcel Proust in his novel Swann's Way. In this 1913 work the taste of the cake was said to prompt a surge of nostalgia or memory. This inspired the second sense of the word madeleine as a noun for something that evokes a memory.
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This is what my I-Ching reading said today when I typed in the words: confused, distance, unreciprocated
2 The Receptive
Great receptivity attracts exceptional results. A natural responsiveness brings about success through support and perseverance, rather than through bold action. Thus, the wise person demonstrates strength like a powerful but gentle mare. This hexagram, consisting of all yin lines, represents a power of the feminine principle no longer honored in our modern world, but such receptivity is most auspicious.
The receptive force is sensual as well as powerful, and it can be missed by too much talk and planning. When spring comes, does the grass "plan" to grow? This is a time to concentrate on realities rather than potentials - with how to respond to a situation rather than how to direct it. The mature mare lets herself be guided by a higher power, and is skilled at graceful acceptance. In a strong spiritual way, her quiet contribution is most effective, and brings success.
Do not be too assertive at this time, for if you try to direct things, you are liable to become confused or alienated. Take your time. Draw strength from carefulness and you will be doubly fortunate. Focus more on feeling than on action. Be broad and deep in your attitudes so that you can accept everything that comes your way with grace and equanimity. Be receptive and spacious like the ocean; let the river of changing developments flow to you. Allow others to take the lead for now. Strive for a pure natural responsiveness that is based on inner strength rather than outer show.
The condition of things in the present is fairly stable. There are no specific changes indicated right now.
Horoscope
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Blend of sentiment and sophistication; follow your instincts and your heart. Family member repeats the refrain, "I love you truly". Libra plays outstanding role.