Running to stand still

Wow, crazy week...

• Hung out with a friend who was in town most of Sunday, and then went to dinner with him (all after running to the mall for some shopping--I didn't arrive before the stores opened this weekend, unlike the weekend before when I was an hour early; apparently 10 a.m. on Sunday is too early even for Christmas shopping),
• Christmas presents wrapping and sending (wrapping at night on Sunday and Monday, mailings on Monday and Tuesday--all arrived yesterday, woo-hoo!),
• frantic card writing (still some more to do),
• a staff Christmas party (Wednesday night),
• a farewell party for a co-worker leaving to a new job in the new year (good luck with the new j.o.b.! Laura),
• old swim paddles re-made (finally) at a plastic shop (it's only taken me about 3 years to get them cut; I tested them out last night: they work well, and apparently are shaped like coffins--"death paddles, kill the competition"),

• a second Christmas present that I was supposed to open early ;) (prominently marked "perishable" on the box: a bonsai sago palm (at right), which is really a cycad and not a palm--it just looks like one; and of which I'm not entirely sure where to place),
• a full day of work today (on the solstice and with less than half the staff in, and much to my co-worker's Lynn's regret, I was not allowed to depart early),
• need to research ISPs...
• and apparently there's a picture of me in today's Sun-Sentinel (the local newspaper), which I should probably track down (it's from the Coral Springs meet that was a few weekend ago).

And now that winter has started (the winter solstice being the first "official" day of winter), I've got a party tomorrow and then some lounging around to do... and, hopefully, my CPR class will make on the 26^th, but I'm not holding my breath that it will (i.e. the Broward Red Cross will delay my taking it yet again).

Anyways, I should go track down a paper... hasta


And so she woke up
Woke up from where she was, lying still
She said, I, I gotta do something,
About where we're going
Step on a steam train
Step out of the driving rain, maybe
Run from the darkness in the night