A Conversation with
Elizabeth
1999
So that's why people shovel snow
From:
Elizabeth
To:
LMixson@PEC.com
Sent: Wednesday,
January 13, 1999 12:52 PM
Subject: So that's why people shovel
snow
So, I guess that's why people get out and shovel snow and get heart
attacks (that's what you always read) because if you leave it alone it
may turn to ice and you will never get rid of it. Yes, it was a "busy"
day off because they are rather rare, and I tried to maximize it.
As I've said before, at the pub library I always had one morning off
every week, until about 12, because I always had to work an evening
until 9, then about every other weekend I had two weekdays off, because
I had to work Sat and Sun. Its the only thing I miss, but it is so
glorious to NEVER work a weekend and NEVER work an evening.
Yesterday was only about the second time "I took the job home" because I
kept fretting about my computer not working all day and having no
anticipation it would work today. Because of that, I stopped by
the lake and watched the geese come in. At first I didn't think
they were coming (as days get longer their arrival gets later), but
finally they came in. The neat thing is, which I suppose a
physicist would understand,--the lake will be golden or orange from the
setting sun, but when the geese land and break the water it turns back
to a blue lake color. I'm sure it has to do with light
refraction/reflection, but I'm not precise about how.
I've felt like asking someone. Well, sounds like you are in a sort
of make work frame right now. I've always thought administrative
leave was when you do something pretty questionable, for example when
police officers shoot someone without cause or get totally stressed out,
they get administrative leave, etc. I think its a euphemism for being
thought of as too incapacitated to do your job. I didn't get to go see
PI which I could have predicted--if I shove it to the weekdays, I never
end up going. I wouldn't have gotten out until 10. I studied
from 7-9 or so, and was in bed by that time. Well, I think I've
done two days work in one by noon, but I best go get my mail. Have
you ever hiked any of the Appalachian trail. I still would like to
do so. I've thought about just doing a small piece, the one
closest to me, so that I could say I've started. I just cut out
ANOTHER article about it--a lot of articles but no real doing it.
Elizabeth
Updated: 04-26-2024