From Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale

People disappear when they die. Their voices, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living mempry of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continut to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humour, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.

--Diane Setterfield



Sunday, January 25, 2009

Change is in the air...

(and it not JUST diapers)

My good friend Tara had a rather traumatic experience this past week in which she was "given" the "opportunity" to work somewhere else in the company...
We found out that Lennar has NO part time benefits, so I get to work full time (which is rediculous because we'd have to pay for child care which is just WAY too expensive) or work part time and have no benefits (which is kinda the point of working...)
We will be moving to Washington late this spring or early this summer. (oh gotta remember to do that self realization thing that Jamies told me about...)
Windows came out with a new OS... now I get to backup my favorite files and stuff so I can try it out.
oh yeah... I should be doing that right now...
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2 comments:

Janika said...

Yeah, so I move to the other side of town, and you think it's okay to move to the other side of the country. W E! If that is what you are supposed to do, then I guess I will support you in it. Stinky job sitch. Nothing to stay around for, I guess.

January 30, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Unknown said...

yeah... I'm excited to move and reconnect with my family in WA (I have cousins and an aunt and stuff) BUT I am NOT excited to leave... does that make sense? Good thing we have blogs and e-mail and phones to keep in touch with!

January 31, 2009 at 10:58 AM

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