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finally downloaded the pics from my camera since... jeez, i don't know when. months and months. i liked this pic!

lemony snicket's a series of strange and correlated events

• first, a drink with everyone?
• nope, let's see if we can beat traffic.
• nope, let's go for a walk.
• not much of a walk, but, is that what is feels like to be 16 again?
• let's go eat dinner, i know a great lebanese restaurant just up the road.
• back to being 16 again.
• break for appointment with counselor.
  
• sitting in a parking lot and blogging.

only two of us in the room

I dither, I blather,

oh what the hell is the matter

With me.

My eyes tease my heart

And my lungs are tight

Your weeping skin calls

For my touching kiss tonight.

I’m a shell of selfish shame

It’s pain, it’s hell all the same.

good question

• tonight's hw - how does good availability management support the expanded incident lifecycle? great question. i know, that's redundant with the subject header.
• it is very peaceful to do your stretches after a run on nice shady grass while staring up at a clear blue sky and watch those little squigglies dance on your eyeballs.
• maybe i should push my work to get me a blackberry. i fear those little innocuous looking devices, the last three ipaq's that i had just took me over like venom in spiderman 3 (don't recommend the movie btw, wow effects, everything else makes you want to pound your head on obsidian).
  
• nice weather today here in dc.

itil service masters

observations and thoughts:

• cool class - finally, we get away from the IT weenie stuff and focus on business fundamentals. welcome to senior management.
  
• how many it geeks does it take to do a SWOT analysis? hmm...
• there is a Brit at my table. there always seems to be a Brit.
• he is a smart Brit and very witty; the things he talked about his company doing were absolutely amazing. i've never heard of anything like it. additional consideration: his IT budget is $2B. oh.
• when you present, what you're presenting actually matters. oh. lesson 2?
• only identified 1 guy that may wander for the class driving the rest of us insane. usually there are 2, i suspect i know who it is, but i'm waiting for her to out herself for the whole class.
• academics - it's easy, if you don't know, then make an educated guess as your predication, justify it, and move out. do not spend 25% of your time worrying about it. the point is to learn. critical thought analysis is the end-goal.
• i have a thing for confident, professionally capable women. seeing an attractive woman perform capably in the workplace or classroom -- i completely fall for that. sigh.
• exam is expected to be 70-100 pages of double-lined response over two days in august. i just erased what i wrote because it would have been a double entendre. i don't think i'm capable of physically being able to write that much. can i dictate?
  

Memories of a little southern girl with a ribbon in her hair

His arms are tree trunks with hairs to play.

Every day like this is some sunny Sunday.

The peeling white fence by the reedy dunes.

Salty breezes warmed by languid afternoons.

A julep sweating and resting on his knee.

We sit on the porch, staring at daddy’s sea.

Mint wafts from his glass smelling sweet and tart.

I nestle close, squirming my head on daddy’s heart.

Until the morrow comes in sorrow’s droves,

And daddy leaves because daddies always go.

Haven't had any impressionist pieces in a while. This Renoir is a great return I think, although not what I would consider one of his classics. I'm very interested in feedback on this one, it's a complete departure for me. It's interesting because the poem started off as a different idea in my head and morphed into this. It's funny to see how these things turn out; half of the time, I have no idea until it's done. The rhythm and construction was very deliberate-- let me know if you think it helps or hurts the delivery. Can you "see" this poem's image? I wanted it to be graphically descriptive, but not overwhelming.