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Not too late to sign up!
In case you’re local and still interested, it is definitely not too late to sign up for my next two (non-writing) classes at the Alameda Adult School. I’m teaching on the following two Wednesday nights: 7 to 9 p.m. at the Central Avenue school site (Rm 330). You have to sign up to be in the class and I believe it is $15 per class. Must be 18 years old; sorry, no kids allowed (it’s the Adult School, silly.) Visit the link above to register online. See you then? SUSTAINABLE LIVING 1“GOING GREEN” (1 CLASS MEETING) — Nov. 12Everyone’s talking about “going green,” but what does it mean and how…
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Weekend Warrior…
…not! Getting ready to do a fat lotta nothin this weekend, which is not how it will turn out. I know I’m having a fledgling writers’ group here on Sunday to get them kick-started. It will be fun to help them gain some momentum. That means — gulp — clean up the living room and bake something. The Boy was ill all week but no one else here is ill, so he must not have been too contagious. Health-wise, I’m gonna try to make it to yoga tomorrow. I may get a financial report out of the way if I’m in the mood, although I tend to procrastinate on those…
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elections and such
Glory be and praise Jah — the election is over and I can finally stop thinking about it. In the news biz, we don’t have the luxury of not caring — we have to follow this stuff and write stories about it (fair coverage for all candidates) and so on. I was counting the days til the election was over so I could sit quietly and think about nothing in particular. Glad to know I can finally do so. (. . . ) –> I must say, I am tickled and delighted about our President-Elect Barack Obama — though he has inherited a boatload of difficult tasks (um, war? economy?…
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me me me and tea
I have this thing about loose leaf tea lately. Like, it never occurred to me to drink it because it’s just a pain in the patoot to measure the leaves and they get all wet and stick to everything and then you have to scrape them out of the strainer and blah blah blah. But, for some reason, lately I’ve been drinking loose leaf tea and using my tea strainer (I have a couple of cute ones — shaped like a house or a tea cup, but I like the round one best). And it feels rather nice to be enjoying a beverage that does not produce much waste and…
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blogging the sphere
Or should that be spearing the blog? Blogger tells me it is on a scheduled outage, so no telling when this will post. (!) I’ve been editing a fascinating book by one of our new authors, about the discovery and passage of the Anza Trail. Her photos are gorgeous — a look at an old historical venture through the photographer’s eye, 21st century. It is good reading but lots of details to watch for (like checking the Spanish translations) so it has taken me longer than I expected. That’s work. The elections are also causing a flurry at the newspaper, because of covering issues before Erection Day and giving fair…
