i am an unrequited astronomer, pretend patient, gentle adventurer, pedal enthusiast, recovering calligrapher, occasional thespian and unfinished poet living in portland, oregon. contacting me via email is usually a good idea.
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one of my new year's resolutions was "read at least one poem a day." i have two ways to accompish this: to use poetry daily's "today's poem" feature, or to use a gift i got for xmas, poem a day (thanks, kelsey!). when i can, i do both, but together they make a good backup when i don't have one or the other. :) i'd like to keep a copy of the text from poem a day on packetwarp, but in the meantime, today's poem is shakespeare's "sweet-and-twenty": "Trip no further, pretty sweeting/Journeys end in lovers meeting" and "What is love? 'tis not hereafter/Present mirth hath present laughter".
lots of snow! i missed the first big storm in portland while i was at the coast, but this round began last night, though it's now changed into something more akin to freezing rain ticking irregularly against the windows. (some of us might call it "ambiguous precipitation.")
everybody's got a snowday today, it seems: michael's working on spycraft materials, dan is shoveling the sidewalk, leopoldo is playing unreal tournament and finishing season 3 of buffy, sven & alex are hanging out watching firefly. burnside and 405 are almost empty & i saw a couple of people skiing down king street. i suspect michael & i will watch some buffy tonight, too, after i finish getting my mail & reading to manageable levels after a week away.