Lovely!
I love my Y. I love that even without my rocking neighbors, it gives me such a sense of community. I know many of the aqua aerobics folks by name, as I'm usually finishing up my swim when they start, and have helped more than a few ladies fasten their suits. We good-naturedly taunt each other about the pool temps (I like it colder, they like it warmer.)
Anyway, tonight an older Belgian woman who I've seen around the hood formally introduced herself. Turns out she lives a couple blocks over, moved in just a few months before me, as also is a big old neighborhood fan. But it was how she introduced herself that charmed me: "Excuse me, I see you all the time here, and I think in the neighborhood, but I'm not sure. I'm Ursula. Were you by chance the one who was catching the kitten this fall? Along with an older couple?" Hah! Indeed, I was. I finally realized she was the one who came by as we'd just caught Pumpkin, and I had half-jokingly asked if she wanted a cat (sometimes, it's hard to recognize people out of their swim caps and suits.) She wanted to know what became of her (ahahaha!) She told me that had it been a month later, she would have taken me up on it right there; she'd been keeping her daughter's cats and was full up, but daughter was able to reclaim them shortly thereafter. Anyway, she was pleased to hear Pumpkin settled in well.
I mentioned our regular market-going, and she said she usually goes around that time and will watch to join us.
Interesting lady. She's I'm guessing in her late 70s and had spent the years prior to moving to Ednor travelling, including "a year of travel study." Class started before I could find out more.
how unexpected and wonderful. thanks for sharing the performance report.
For all that any performance strives for perfection, no matter how they define it, magic is not achieved through perfection. Magic is when the audience connects and is moved.
Awwww... lovely performance note.
Luckily his handwriting, well, it's kinda pretty actually.
Is this a flirt thing, ita?
Appropriate to this board, that damn Angel quote is tickling my brain, and while it isn't exactly appropriate here, it is one of my favorites:
If there's no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do. 'Cause that's all there is. What we do. Now. Today.
Indeed, Sara.
I need a knitting project that I can work on in class. I can't think of anything I need or want. I'd make another plastic bag bag, but that makes crinkly noises.
Is this a flirt thing, ita?
It'd better not be. I'm not the copingest.
It drives me batty when people do this. You can @ someone in a post without tagging them in the photo. Come on, I am not in this picture of a bookshelf!!
Ooops. I definitely did this to a number of y'all when I came across the original scribblings of Bram Stoker's Dracula in Philly and again with a very cool and posh Scrabble game at Harrods. None of you were in those notes or in the Scrabble game!!
I love that performance review very much. Beautiful.
I also love all kinds of accents. The world is a more interesting place with accents and speech texture. I saw The Descendants on Saturday and walked out very much missing my awesome pidgeon english that I had as a kid in Hilo.
I had to stop watching the "Ice Age Death Trap" Nova because the dying mammoths were too sad.
