Wow...since my divorce late 2009 I have lived three places, and done so many things, but now I live in a new city I love, have a wonderful dog, a cool series of temp jobs, and am astonished by the beauty of the seasons.
My new BBF is amazingly inspiring and encourages my lunges towards mental hygiene: for example, cured my fear of spiders completely. :)
I can totally deal with the 9-to-5 office work I do, I get to focus my attention, have gorgeous views of the Charles or trees or wildly ornamented old buildings and the sky to shift my eyes to twice an hour, and, usually, nice co-workers.
Also working on the third and fourth chapters for a serialized illustrated novel a very splendid publishing group is interested in, and drawings for other clients and loved ones, numerous fiber projects (mostly hats of course!) and designs for clothes--yep, lotsa hats here too, but not ONLY! Dresses and upper body garments are also in line. My multi-yarn hats are so nice and warm and wonderful-- people wear them forever--one of my exes even wore them during a period of extreme anger/resentment etc. toward me, is how good my hats are!!! :)
That reminds me, are you familiar with the annual Fur-Free Friday tradition. Please, if you have never looked into the practices of the fur industry, either look into it on an animal rights site or youtube, or, if you feel you'd be too traumatized, look at the Berdyaev fox experiments, some actual video if you can find some. These experiments, conducted by a team of women and men, just named after one, are very important to students of the canine mind/being, so material on them should be sought out. Anyway, it isn't upsetting, but lovely. These foxes are so beautiful, bright, sweet, such lively intelligent beings!
In the Nerdy Book department, I have just finished the last "Hollows" book, my favorite part of it as always being the pixy family life that continues around and intersects with the life of the main character's story. I find the series to have a truly weird morality, contradictory streaks of raunch-feminism (thanks, Ariel Levy, for that pejorative, even if I abhor what you write about Andrea Dworkin) and prudery, and other flaws, but still love and recommend it. In the latest, Pale Demon, there are big changes for, and much, much more learned about, the Jenks-Matalina family, including their home life, traditions, emotions, abilities, and enemies. (And even the Rachel Morgan plot is less annoying than usual! ;)
My present fingernail color is naked. Not nude, naked nails, buffed to a very soft glow, not that tacky over-shiny buffing one associates with salesmen. That reminds me, I just read Christopher Isherwood's Ramakrishna book. Very interesting! Recommended! R's disciple Vivekananda had such influence in the West--a salesman for all the right reasons, one could say--that it's worth reading for that reason alone. But some of the stories about the goofy saint himself are just lovely, and hilarious, like the one where he's throwing rupees and poop in the Ganges.
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