Hey gang,
How goes the battle? All goes good on this end. I hope I didn't freak you all out with last week's rather morose post! I truly wasn't all that sad or depressed, just a bit melancholy...
This past week has been busy and productive both at work and on the home front. We are still getting things moved around at home, switching bedrooms, moving art, and getting ready for my upcoming stint of working at home. Speaking of which, while I always knew it was to be a pilot project, I was think more in terms of months, whereas, I have since found out, that the bosses at work are thinking in terms of weeks! Nice. In any case, I'll take what I can get. They tell me if all goes well, I would be working at home on a full-time basis come September. But, for various reasons, that is a very big IF! Que sera, sera, I suppose. If the full-time teleworking doesn't pan out, I'll evaluate ALL of my options at that time.
In other news, spring is upon us in full force here in eastern Canada. The forsythia is in bloom, the grass is greening, trees are budding, and our rhubarb is up. It's great! I'm hoping we'll get some decent weather next week in NYC! We're getting very excited about the trip. I've made a couple of restaurant reservations (one here). I love the area around Columbus Circle, where this restaurant is! We're also going to taking in an opera at the Met (Armida with Renée Flemming) and a show on Broadway (Fela).
And for some reason or another, I've also been thinking about Mirla Castellanos! Ever heard of her? Probably not, unless you are from Venezuela or Latin America. She was a fave of my first partner, who was from Caracas. I listened to a lot of her music in the 2 and a half years we were together! The first song, Maldito Amor, was one of her big hits. I think she also did a version of Dominique a nique, but I can't find that on You Tube, so I've substituted. Perhaps it was another artist in any case...
De todas maneras, Javier, if you are out there, these two are for you! :)
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For Once, then, Something (by Robert Frost)
Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs
Always wrong to the light, so never seeing
Deeper down in the well than where the water
Gives me back in a shining surface picture
My myself in the summer heaven, godlike
Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs.
Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb,
I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture,
Through the picture, a something white, uncertain,
Something more of the depths—and then I lost it.
Water came to rebuke the too clear water.
One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a ripple
Shook whatever it was lay there at bottom,
Blurred it, blotted it out. What was that whiteness?
Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something.
Always wrong to the light, so never seeing
Deeper down in the well than where the water
Gives me back in a shining surface picture
My myself in the summer heaven, godlike
Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs.
Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb,
I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture,
Through the picture, a something white, uncertain,
Something more of the depths—and then I lost it.
Water came to rebuke the too clear water.
One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a ripple
Shook whatever it was lay there at bottom,
Blurred it, blotted it out. What was that whiteness?
Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something.
4 comments:
So you figured everyone just backed away from the room quietly after your last post? LOL! Seriously, though, maybe not exactly in the same way, but I do know what you meant. Sometimes I feel like that when I go to bed and feel completely overwhelmed by all I've managed to do yet all I didn't manage to do.
Meanwhile, I can't for the life of me figure out what those pinheads of bureaucrats those bosses of yours are could possibly come up as grounds NOT to go ahead with your teleworking arrangement! (I'm allowed to call them that; I neither know who they are nor have I ever met them. :) ) But I mean, come on! It's 2010 and there's not need for that physical presence in an office. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but it always gets to me. Regrettably, my current boss is not as accustomed as my previous bosses with not being right there in Toronto where she can come up to my desk -- micromanagers suck! -- but, still, we're managing.
I hope you guys have a great time in the Big Apple and that the fabulous weather we've been having follows you there. Here, too, some trees are budding a full month earlier than usual, although that process has slowed down somewhat since the temps have fallen back closer to average values. I figure it'll be like stepping a full month ahead for you guys when you get to NYC. That, along with the energy and culture available to you, should make your trip fantastic (after the BS with airport security, of course).
Hope you guys have the time of your life in the Big Apple. George and I really need to go back there again. It's been too long.
Happy and safe travels and big hugs :)
Thanks guys! We sure did have a great time in NYC!
And Maurice - I started to write a long-winded explanation re teleworking, but it got too convoluted. Suffice to say that it is a very complicated situation.
The Mirla Castellanos video is really old, maybe on '70s. Good to remember. Regards...
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