random friday thoughts in the haze of a headache

three days of headache in a row. at first, i chalked it up to too many new year's eve libations, but now that we're on day 3, it's just a really, really pesky headache. i'm impatiently waiting for my new job to begin and feel in a state of limbo anyway, so it kind of fits. so i putter around, doing laundry, knitting, reading a bit, pinning on pinterest, perusing the interwebs and just generally not getting out of my pajamas. so, i thought i'd share a few of the things i've stumbled across, as well as my knitting progress:

there's a new blogging platform called marquee. it's in beta. i love the very clean, simple look of it and the way it scrolls. i discovered it through narratively, they're using it for their platform. i requested an invitation (they're still at that stage) and just got it, so i'm going to play around. i'm thinking of using it as a place for more creative writing endeavors, rather than therapy, like around here. i'll link you up once i'm ready. but in the meantime, check it out and request an invitation, it just might be the next best thing.

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and speaking of narrative.ly, read this story about how hard it really is to give it all up and move to a farm.

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my sister sent me a link to a new blog called soundtrack of a life. it's only a couple of days old, but already i like the premise...storytelling and conjuring of memories through songs. it wasn't that long ago that the storyteller made me think about this whole way that songs are intertwined with memories (or is it memories with songs?).

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i'm off to make salmon and spinach quiche for dinner. happy weekend everyone!

hallucinating giraffes

around midmorning, right as i was putting the finishing touches on my to-do list, i got a monster headache. i blame the chocolate on toast that husband made me for breakfast. too much sugar, especially in the morning, will bring on a headache every time. it resisted all ibuprofen and the gallons of water i drank, so i finally took a nap. i couldn't even read, because it hurt too much to focus my eyes (there's that focus thing again).

when sabin came home, i decided to hang out and watch project runway with her, despite the headache. while we watched the amusing catfighting and recriminations,  i worked a bit on my knitting. and that's when i saw this little giraffe herd go by...do you think headaches can make you hallucinate?

highlights and lowlights

the view from my window

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highlights from today:

• most hopeful fact: even without any caps or emissions trading schemes (ETS) or bunker levies in place, it would be possible, right now, through technical and operational means, for the shipping industry to reduce emissions by 15%. that's pretty exciting news for an industry that has 1 billion tons of CO2 emissions per year.
  
• coolest made-up word: oligopolistic (meaning oil rules)
• most radical suggestion: individual CO2 quotas for every single person on the planet--1 for each of us--would make a fair ETS possible.
• biggest understatment: "peter the great was an awfully good sailor."
• best quote: "i'm the difference between now and a beer." 
• best find: pride and prejudice and zombies

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lowlights from today:

• that tired, yawning feeling immediately post-lunch. 
• feeling invisible as the only woman in the room who wasn't admin or hotel staff or carrying an important asian guy's notebook/man purse.
• that whole strange conference politeness ritual that is at once bureaucratic and sycophantic with undertones of communism coated in a veneer of thinly-disguised slime arising from mixing CEOS with politicians and industry organizations and oil majors. 
• too much crap coffee, not enough latte.
• shop was out of light yellow converse all-stars in my size.
• ending the day with a killer headache.

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i wonder what tomorrow will bring?