Continuing to be personally and, um, emotionally? productive. Work's going well, I'm in the process of wrapping up a first-quarter project. We're big on quarters at PLI. I didn't finish the training I'd slated to do for first quarter, but I don't think my boss cares and I could possibly wrap that up this weekend. …
Author: Eric Peterson
Conductor, hornist, singer, business analyst, New Yorker. Happily gay-married. Knit and ice-skate for fun.
Practically Productive
One of my favorite books, Judith Guest's "Ordinary People", introduced me to a phrase I've tried to take to heart, that there's 'no golden gradebook in the sky'. It's easy to beat yourself for failing to hit your own goals, even though they don't make a lot of difference and no one else cares. Anyway, …
The most important thing
Had to check the last post to see what I'd shared re our vaccination status. Was it really only last week that C had an appointment at our local (not-chain) pharmacy in a week or so, and I had none? Well... events moved quickly. First, using the NYC.gov vaccine finder, I tried to get an …
Moving forward inefficiently
I've become aware that I can easily lock myself into inaction simply because I can't easily plan the best way to do something. Oh, I have so much to do - well, I'll do that first, but wait, something else needs to happen and this really should happen today too... and then I've come to …
Like a Flower, Opening Up
Today was unusually warm and nice, after the weeks of snow and cold and rain we've had. At my job, I'd gotten past some blockages and felt not under-the-gun for the first time this week. C and I had done our usual Wed mid-morning food shopping, but this time we went to the new grocery …
Paul Henreid Film Festival
I didn't really have a movie picked out for last night, so I told C to think of a romantic movie he wanted to watch. As it turns out, he was already watching Now, Voyager, so we watched that, then I decided we'd watch Casablanca next. We all know that Casablanca is the perfect movie, …
Wintry Minx
That's my new drag name. We're going to get hit with snow tonight, and then tomorrow, apparently, we're really going to get hit with snow. I'm trying to think of anything I should rush out and buy today (bread! milk! eggs! for the French Toast Apocalypse) but I think we're reasonably well-stocked. I'm loving this …
Tuppence Middleton Film Festival
We didn't set out specifically to have a Tuppence Middleton film festival, but we watched Mank and Fisherman's Friends this weekend, and she's in both, doing a quite nice job. I suppose you could painfully construct some sort of joke scenario to work "Tuppence, a bag" in there, but not worth it. She's not a …
Almost there…
Martin Luther King Jr Day today. C and I visited his museum and tomb when we were in Atlanta, quite a few years ago now. The tomb is beautiful. I am reminded again that I keep meaning to get recordings of his speeches and listen to them. We're at the very tail end of the …
Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant
I am just as appalled as everyone else at the events of January 6... but I keep thinking, 'it's better to have these people out in the open so we can deal with them'. I am firmly behind getting DJT out of office ASAP, regardless of the amount of time left in his term. That's …
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