A Conversation with Elizabeth
1998
Versatility

From:          Elizabeth  
To:            LMixson@PEC.com
Sent:          Friday, April 3, 1998 11:24 AM
Subject:       Versatility
 
I know what you mean about let down.  I even got "worried" because on the one or two days or occasionally when I don't or didn't hear from you, I was so "let down" even though "rationally" I knew you were busy, etc. It was almost like a very mild depressive response. Also, I almost feel like "apologizing" for not writing yesterday, and I was concerned because we shared our "fears" about either of us "disappearing" on the other again.  My schedule just got really pushed out of shape because I left on Wed.  I will never do that again, if I can plan otherwise.  The boulevard gets to be 100 degrees when it is hot like it was Wednesday, and I was fatigued from leaving and coming back.  Then, it seems like after sitting almost to quitting time with "nothing" to do, and when I planned to write, I got "requests" at the last moment.  I worked on one of those until almost 6 Wednesday night, and then again last night I had one.  At least that let me make up my time for leaving.
 
I am so impressed with all the things you can do, and also all the energy you seem to have.  In some ways I would imagine that with your income, etc. and all your other pursuits that you'd let "others" do things like your brake jobs.  I know you probably save money doing it yourself, but is there anything you don't do?  I'm in such admiration because energy seems to be a problem with me.  I have a 1982 VW that was fully functional until my recent move, then because I had to travel on I-85 to work at the public library, I let it "sit."  Now it has "decayed."  I would really like to start restoring it, but every time I look at it, I think, "I'm too tired." I went to all the trouble to get a new battery a few months back, then I let it go dead after installing it.  I also bought new air hoses. What do you think of the new "bugs."  I haven't seen one yet, except on t.v.  I missed the one on display here, but I really like the t. v. commercials. I think if I every purchases a luxury car, it would be a Volvo.  My mother had one for the longest (She made my father buy it for her when they divorced, which always intrigued me because all my life we always had three or four cars, but they were always used ones my father "fixed up."  She just said she wanted a new car.)
 
Just as I write "energy is a problem," I think though that I have been getting up really early lately.  Right now, but not much longer it is absolutely gorgeous in the early a.m.  I truly LOATHE the switch to daylight savings time in the Spring, because my body seems to have shifted somehow into early morning awakening.  Then when I am "naturally" waking up at 6 without an alarm, there is that shift, and suddenly I have to jerk my body to accommodate.  When 6 becomes 7, that is too late for me to get up, as I try to leave at 7:30 (TRY) for work.  I do think some of my fatigue is my arthritis, which I am just going to have to accept, as I know that "rest" is very important.
 
Sounds like an enjoyable weekend for you. I may have given the impression finals had started.  They haven't.  I have started for them, but they are still two weeks.  School starts back Monday. I did "plan" my weekend this morning early a.m.  I'll go to the Capri matinee at 3:00 p.m. Sunday (that's sort of our alternative theatre) to see the Nick Nolte movie--I forget the female star, but they are supposed to be excellent together.  Saturday I've decided I'll go see Jasmine Gardens here in Montgomery, which I haven't seen.  I saw an ad that they are staying open late until 9:00 p.m. so that the azaleas and cherry blossoms can be viewed in moonlight. (I didn't know we had any cherries here.) Usually they close at 5:00.  I think I'll go while it's still daylight, but stay until just after sunset.  The rest of the weekend is studying, but I wanted to enjoy some last shred of the break.
Go for it (the new job)(I guess?).  Good luck.  When you mentioned ATF--going down to meet with them.  What is ATF?  You may have told me, but I have forgotten.  Or was it ATF.   
Also--the planter.  I made it, not you or your Dad.  That was what was so therapeutic, but I remember using your hand saw to cut the board and it took me forever to slice through it.  You had a stack of bits and pieces of lumber scraps and I sorted through and got pieces and designed it in my head.

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