No kidding. Originally uploaded by A-Wix I’ve caught some kind of contagion, and it has left me too sick to do much besides blow my nose and bemoan my existence. Looking at the laptop screen is making me wince. While I’m away, please amuse yourself over at Germ Circus, where Jennifer has been seeking out …
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The day after: thoughts on my Month Impossible
NY – Long Island: Belmont Park – Finish Line Originally uploaded by wallyg Today, I did not have to write a massive number of words for a crappy first draft of a novel. I didn’t have to draw anything. I planned to write a blog post, but I was not required to do so. I’ve …
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Month Impossible: Day Twenty-two, Pie!
Pie! Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey And how did the pies turn out? Fantastic. Actually, come to think of it, I didn’t have any of the pumpkin pie, but because the filling didn’t all fit in the pie shell I had to cook the overflow in a custard cup. That’s going to be a fabulous breakfast …
Month Impossible: Day Nineteen, studying Spook and getting serious about the novel
Today I tried to sketch Spook, my other cat. Officially, Sammy is my cat, and Spook is Sammy’s cat. When I first got Sammy, she was cooped up all alone during the day — I worked in a real office then — and when I came home and tried to write or do anything she …
Month Impossible: Day Sixteen
A few weeks ago, I traveled to Seattle for the annual LFM Alumni Conference. LFM stands for Leaders for Manufacturing, which is a program within the Sloan School of Management at MIT. I graduated in 1997. I attended a few of the conferences after graduation, and although I always had a wonderful experience — great …
Month Impossible: Day Fourteen
Necklace Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey Almost halfway through my month of impossible challenges. It’s not quite time yet to reflect on the wisdom/stupidity of these things I’ve set out to do. So instead: Here is a drawing of a necklace that my sister Laura gave me. People tell me that I’m stylish, funky, hip, fun. …
Month Impossible: Day Thirteen
The John Cleese Plant Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey A couple of years back — 2003? — I subscribed to John Cleese’s website. This meant I could watch subscriber-only content on the site, humorous videos and such, and participate in chats with Mr. Cleese. I found the site hard to navigate and the content sort of …
What drives me to you is what drives me insane
Weeks (months?) ago, Caroline of Pinky’s Paperhaus tagged me for a list-meme thing, and it’s well past time I responded. Here are the rules: We have to post these rules before we give you the facts. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about …
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Thoughts on “Mezzulah, 1946”
I saw "Mezzulah, 1946" at City Theatre recently. It’s a fun play, upbeat and entertaining. Crux of the plot: It’s 1946, and the men returning from World War II have reclaimed their jobs, displacing the women who filled them in the meantime. All except for a girl named Mezzulah, who is a crack electrician at …
A Picasso at the City Theatre
1. I have two Picassos. Of course they are reproductions, and small ones at that, little prints in beat-up frames. My grad school roommate Sharon gave them to me — she found them in an antique shop. They depict two harlequins, one on a horse and one with a black mask in hand. The one …