ever been bored, but not? i'm too tired to do anything, but too restless to sit still. i'd really like to go to bed, but if i do, i'll be up at 3 am, wide awake.
getting home last night was a challenge. huge gusts of wind, lots of rain, hail, lots of lightning and thunder... i spent about 45 minutes in my car under cover, hiding from the hail.
i think i'm finally catching up at work. now to catch up at home. monday i got home late, last night i got home late 'cause of the weather (see above), and tonight my bf's cousin is having his birthday party. i might get home a bit earlier at least. i really need to finish unpacking. stuff is just strewn about the apartment. and i'm trying to figure out why nick's bicycle is still in my living room?! anyway, maybe life will get back to some semblance of normalcy soon. i hope...
well, i originally meant about the website, but now i think i mean about myself as well. i'm just back from a long trip and still trying to figure out what's going on, really.
there was some oddness with the website - a changed domain, password, etc. i've got an email in to the hosting company. hopefully they'll know what happened. i don't think i was hacked. i don't think....
anyway...it's going home time. yay!
ok, so i'm not a professional recording studio - there's hiss, the microphone is sorry (yes - i'm using the mic on my little headset. sad, i know!), but...it works. :)
so, for those of you who want to know what my dulcimer playing sounds like at it's current best, here you go. please go easy on me. i've only been playing for 6 months, alright? :)
they're .wav files. sorry to you on macs, hopefully you can still listen. i'm also not very good at music file conversions and things, either.
Hanged Man's Reel (1.26 MB)
Port an Riahanaigh (Reagan's Jig) (410 KB)
Si Bheag, Si Mhor (1.09 MB)
happy listening!
(oh yeah, and by the way. i've only been playing Si Bheag, Si Mhor since thursday. that's...3 days now?)
yes. i'm in a good mood. perhaps because next week is spring break. perhaps because it looks like one of my designs may be accepted as-is (or close to) on the first try. perhaps because the behemoth site i've been working on is done and off my plate for a little while.
or maybe it's because it was sunny this morning for the first time in weeks. whatever. i'm in a good mood.
that's something i always like to say to people - i get strange looks and it's a lot of fun. really, though, the season of lent is not meant to be about sadness and guilt. it's about putting your house in order. it's a checkup - am i doing the things i'm supposed to? do i need to change anything? have i fallen lax in anything? it's a time of self examination.
hopefully i'll be able to keep it up - right now i'm reading a book called bread and wine - it has readings for the lent and easter season by people like kathleen norris, c.s. lewis, and oscar wilde. basically, people that you would expect to have excerpts of, and those you wouldn't. reading today's section, i'm reminded again how much i enjoy the things that kathleen norris has written. if you haven't already, be sure to read the cloister walk and the quotidian mysteries. i enjoy reading books by people with real faith - people that admit that they get mad at God sometimes. don't we all? the important thing is that we return.
i don't know why the columbia disaster has touched me so much. perhaps because it's so recent.
a few things i've seen recently:
from the texas episcopalian:
"The Rev. Vincent Uher, retired priest in the Diocese of Texas, wrote a special verse to be added to the hymn "Eternal Father, strong to save," often known as the Navy Hymn. Uher said he used the passage in Isaiah that President George W. Bush quoted and also the poem that President Ronald Reagan quoted after the Challenger disaster.
"O God who names
the starry host
and by whose love
not one is lost,
who stretched thine arms
wide to the sky
from cross to heav'n
so death would die
Oh care for those
who traverse space,
Embrace them now
who touch thy face."
and perhaps the poem referenced above...
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swing
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air ....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
This high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
-Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr., RCAF
don't ask why - i don't know. maybe it's the extra sleep after going home early yesterday. maybe it's because it's shrove tuesday and i get to eat pancakes and sausage tonight...or maybe i'm just in a good mood. regardless, i have a meeting in 3 minutes and need to go. :)
i found another chair in canton exactly like the one i posted a few days ago - the one i'd finished. and! i found a stool that matches. i'm going to turn said stool into a table - going to take the plywood that forms the seat and do a mosaic on top. oh, crafty stuff is fun!
happy day to you!
remember a few weeks ago how i promised to redo the pictures in the photography section? they're done. they shouldn't be quite so pixelated now, but i may have a missed a few - bear with me. :)
as for the migraines, i got another one today. now i'm starting to wonder if they're not related to weather changes. just about the time that the sky was clearing...i got another one. hmmm. maybe it's that an allergies.