Happy Sunday from the Hinterlands!

Okay, let me see… Yes! The Agency has texted me no less than THREE times, wanting me to work tomorrow!!

But alas, it is my DAY OFF.

I want to work on MY NOVEL.

I get so tired of saying no because it makes me feel awful, however.

Not getting this novel done makes me feel worse.

So. Decline, decline, decline — as politely as I can, gang. Before I’ve even gotten out of bed…

And now. Onward.

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Today, there are TWO Zoom meetings with James Tabor.

So yet another conundrum.

One is at 11:30AM, for his private Patreon group. It will only be one hour. Technically, I can tune in, but it means not working on the novel before I leave for my shift.

He is in Athens, Greece, and preparing for his talk this afternoon for the New Testament Conference. Which is the second Zoom meeting for today. I am actually going to try to tune in to that one while I’m having lunch and then driving to town for my shift with the retired Minister and his lovely wife and cat…

But listening while driving is not my idea of “attending” the Conference, because I’ll miss the slide presentation. But I guess we’ll just try to adjust.

Otherwise, I have to find time later in the week to watch the replay, when I would rather be working on my NOVEL….

Ack!

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I’m feeling inordinately stressed now because this coming week is my last week with 3 days off. Then the following week, my schedule changes for the rest of the month.

I will still have 2 days off each week, but the clients that are back in my schedule are some extremely cognitive-impaired ones and it is going to be exhausting.

And just thinking about it is exhausting.

Try as I might to just take each moment as it comes… Well, I’m not super good at that.

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Okay!

Well, at least there’s this!

How fucking gorgeous is this?? From 1973 (I think):

Nick Cave, in his “Angel” phase. I think it was a really short-lived phase, but don’t quote me on that.

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And today marks one year since Kris Kristofferson left us.

I cannot believe it’s been a year already. For fuck’s sake!! Jesus.

“The Taker”

He’s a giver, he’ll give her
The kind of attention that she’s never known
He’s a teacher, he’ll teach her
To open the doors that she can’t on her own
He’s a lover, he’ll love her
In ways that she never has been loved before
And he’s a getter, he’ll get her
By gettin’ her into the world she’s been hungryin’ for

He’s a charmer, and he’ll charm her
With money and manners that I never learned
He’s a leader, and he’ll lead her
Across pretty bridges he’s planning to burn
He’s a talker, he’ll talk her
Right off of her feet, but he won’t talk for long
Cause he’s a doer, and he’ll do her
The way that I never
But damned if he won’t do her wrong

Cause he’s a taker, he’ll take her
To places and make her fly higher than she’s ever dared to
He’ll take his time before takin’ advantage
Takin’ her easy and slow
And after he’s taken the body and soul
That she gives him, he’ll take her for granted
Then he’ll take off and leave her
Takin’ all of her pride as he goes

c- 1971 Kris Kristofferson

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Okay, well. At least I’m still loving my new boombox, gang!

And I am, indeed, finding time to study French the old-fashioned way every evening before I call it a day (is that a mixed-metaphor?).

I’m using the textbook that goes along with the “French in 3 Months” cassettes, writing down my answers to the exercises. And even though this is all stuff I already know, it sort of solidifies it in my brain and it feels so different from using the phone app every day. It actually makes my brain feel great.

Even though the phone app sometimes throws in vocabulary that is new to me, I don’t retain it because it just goes by so fast. So I’m really enjoying going back to doing things the old way.

Just FYI, though — it is really formal French, and once you get off the plane in Paris, absolutely no one speaks that way and you’re in over your head in a nano second. But I don’t think I’ll be going back to Paris any time soon, so I don’t really care. I’m just enjoying the process.

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This morning, this has been burning up a few different accounts that I follow on telegram — about DJT posting an AI video about Medbeds on Truth Social. It could be really exciting, so I share it here.

(And so much great stuff seems like it is right on the cusp of exploding, gang. It is really, really starting to get exciting. If you’re able to see past all the relentless optics, noise, psyops, etc.)

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Okay, well. I guess I’ll close this for now and try to work on the novel before the first Zoom meeting of the day gets underway.

Enjoy your Sunday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I leave you with this!!!

Yes, more from the playlist of songs I was listening to in 2022!

You know, gang, it is a really fun playlist. I am really enjoying every single song that comes up! (See yesterday’s post if you missed the first 3 songs I apparently had in top rotation 3 years ago.)

I’ll list 3 more here today — and I’m posting them the same way they come up on the playlist. It’s too funny! Enjoy, gang!

“Aquarius”, Original Broadway Cast, 1968: