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I know I’ve posted pictures of this house before, but I still love it.

Woke up feeling miserable, don’t know why, but I’m doing what I can to alleviate it.  I bought myself lilacs, went to my local library branch to find out if my access card can be used to take out books because I thought the idea of all the money I could save not buying books might make me feel better, (it can and it did a little) had a burrito for lunch and strawberries for dessert.  

What else can I do??

Finney just curled up in my lap.  That should help.

I have my monthly meditation meeting tonight, except I really want to curl up in a ball and watch tv instead. That’s probably not the right choice though.

We’re so vulnerable as a species.  Some of us are anyway.

Okay, I’m going to go figure out how I order my library books online so they’re there waiting for me at my local branch.

Except it’s on my other blog.  But I worked like a dog on this posting, telling this story!  Hopefully it’s worth going there to read. 

Here’s a picture of some workers, down at the World Trade Center site, taking a break, which I will now do as well.  All this blogging!  So exhausting!

This is the Hilton taken from the graveyard at St. Paul’s Chapel.

I took an iphoto class yesterday so today I’m going to take a bunch of pictures and experiment with making them better.  

Oh, and I’m going to post a ghost story I researched on my Unbelievable blog.  But I want to go out and shoot a movie of the spots I’m talking about first. They’re all close by so I can do it quickly.

Blows my mind.  I was saying this in the iphoto class yesterday.  I am old enough where it just blows my mind how quickly technology is progressing.  That I can post a story, which I researched mostly online by the way, and shoot a movie to go with that and upload it in seconds, I mean the world just go so much more fun.

Someday there will be little cultural differences. Everywhere all over the world we’ll be so much the same.  I don’t say this in a “we are the world sense” but connection changes you.

I wonder what if there will be any physiological changes as a result of constant all encompassing access?

This was in a recent New York Times article by John Markoff.  I think it was about artificial intelligence. Christ.  Do I have any brain cells left??  I read the article, what?  Yesterday?? Anyway, Markoff was writing about making predictions, and how everyone thought things were going to happen a lot sooner and he quotes futurist Paul Saffo saying, “never mistake a clear view for a short distance.”

I have to start making a list of ” truest true things ever,” and begin with that.  Brilliant.  Don’t you wish you were a smart person?  I wish I was a smart person.  Ugh.  Damnit.  I forgot that I’m trying to stop noticing my failings and instead focus on the positive.  Well, I noticed that I noticed my failings, that’s good. Can’t stop if you don’t even notice when you’re doing it!

And now, a cute cat picture.

It’s been closed down for a long time while they do renovations and now it’s open again, and I have to say, it doesn’t look very different to me.  They moved the fountain, supposedly, but if it’s a few feet over in one direction or another I can’t tell.  There used to be a two tier, different level thing going on around the fountain and now everything is all on one level.  But I looked all around for improvements and couldn’t find them.

This planting thing leading up to the fountain didn’t used to be there.  A statue/monument thing used to be there.  I liked the statue/monument thing, but this is nice.  

One great change is there have been children playing in the fountain every time I walked by, and I love the sound and look of that. Screaming, splashing children.  I’m not very kid-oriented, but I once was a kid and I remember how much fun it is to play in fountains.  I love that they have one. Street performers used to take over the fountain and I’m sorry they’ve lost their spot, but this is a better use. Now they perform off to the side, so it’s not like they no longer have a spot.