Thankful times.......

[hester_prynne]

Well my dears, I'm hittin the road tommorrow for an interview Friday in Olympia Wa, at the State Attorney General's office.
I was shocked when they called me last week. It seems like such a long shot, but hell, why not? They need an old hippie jazz singer there. Heh. I'd be answering constituent letters and working in public records. Tons of perks, and fabulous pay, why I'd be rich!!!!!!!
(I could send Doreen some of that dough that that crook ripped off!!!!! I so wish I could do that right now.)
Anyway, after the interview, I'm headin down to see my Stella in Astoria, she's in the high school play and i'm goin to see it! She's one of the main players!!!!!
Then we're gonna come back up here for a family Thanksgiving.......WHeeeeeeee!
I'm thrilled. Truly thrilled, i've missed her so much, we talk alot on the phone, but well, you know.
(Olympia would be so close to Astoria, I could visit her alot more, which is why i'm scoping out work opps there.)
Oh, also, on Sunday, while i'm in Astoria I'm going to be performing at the Performing Arts Center at a benefit for Cancer Survivors! A chance to sing again!!!!!!! They asked me to do two songs so I'll be singing Lucky so and so, and Frim fram sauce.
And then there's the wonderful book! I'm taking it with me to show us off.

I feel really thankful lately, for so many things, even though I am poor and sort of drifty right now, unsure really of what i'm doing, where i'm going........
Just wanted to share it with you all.
What's up in your lives for Thanksgiving?
(I'll keep you posted on how the job interview goes, i've no idea what to expect. Heh. What else is new?)
A toast to us all despite everything eh?
Yours truly,
H

[stilltrucking]

Good luck Hester, My mind is very bent. Every time you go on an interview I always think of that movie Pink Flamingos, the interview scene.

I quit counting jobs around 1980. At last count I had about 200. No hyperbole, my boss sent me down to the U S Customs Service to get my ID card so I could haul the containers in and out of the marine terminals. They wanted to know ever job I had ever had. After about two hours the boss called to see what was taking so long. I told him. And he said, “just give them the highlights”


"it is the best of times..."
in this best of all spatio temporal objcetive fact worlds about us


even worse I think of that poem The Applicant Nothing to do with looking for a job I guess, just the way I would feel about job interviews. I had a tendendcy to only do one and wait and see. My hopes would ride on one interview.


One of those jobs I had was as a employment counselor
just a numbers game five or six job interviews always get a job offer.
I hope you get this one.
If not just keep on slogging

Best wishes for success
jt

[stilltrucking]

sorry for the ramble hester
I should probably delete it but i wont

Oh, also, on Sunday, while i'm in Astoria I'm going to be performing at the Performing Arts Center at a benefit for Cancer Survivors! A chance to sing again!!!!!!! They asked me to do two songs so I'll be singing Lucky so and so, and Frim fram sauce.

That is the best news I have heard all day.

I was in the Woman's Hospital in San Antone earlier this year. They have a grand piano in an atrium off the registration area. I imagined you sitting there playing.

[Arcadia]

good, hester!!!
your voice is a beautiful gift, share it!!!!!!!!!!!

no idea about thanksgiving, we only semi-adopted here halloween...! have a great time with your daughter and family!!!!

no big news around here: great weather, tomorrow the school will be desinfected, so I don´t have to work so I´m planning to go to listen cuban and peruvian music somewhere tonight

[e_dog]

BOYCOTT THANKSGIVING.

No Turkey Till that Turkey in the WhiteMan's House brings home tha troops!


Protest America! NO To Thanxgving!

[stilltrucking]

too dam late
I bought a fresh turkey breast and cooked it.
tastes like a lump of polystyrene soaked in a vat of anti-biotics.

This my favorite holiday
I been celebrating ever since the pelopenesian war ended.

Celebrate america eat a turkey from the Heritage Foundation.

[Arcadia]

This my favorite holiday
I been celebrating ever since the pelopenesian war ended.
s-t: do you need some help with cronology?

I googled thanksgiving and I also found this :

Berkeley Plantation continues to be the site of an annual Thanksgiving event to this day. President George W. Bush gave his official Thanksgiving address in 2007 at Berkeley saying

“ In the four centuries since the founders of Berkeley first knelt on these grounds, our nation has changed in many ways. Our people have prospered, our nation has grown, our Thanksgiving traditions have evolved -- after all, they didn't have football back then. Yet the source of all our blessings remains the same: We give thanks to the Author of Life who granted our forefathers safe passage to this land, who gives every man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth the gift of freedom, and who watches over our nation every day."[2] ”

To eat turkey, to be with the family and to not go to work... it doesn´t sounds bad!!! I only eat turkey once, cooked by and old lady familiar of a familiar from Goya, Corrientes. A delicious turkey with plums (obviously, not a local food) . I´m boiling chicken (popular version) to eat it in salad-way tomorrow!!

[stilltrucking]

I am running on Husserlian Time. I base my chronology on that.

By far the most insightful book ever written about how consciousness interacts with the reality of space-time.

I bought that book in Morro Bay California in 1976. At least a million miles I carried it around. I wore the the cover illustration off of it. A snake forming a circle with its tail in its mouth. It was that picture that caught my eye made me buy it. I have been reading it on and off for over thirty years. Last time I checked I was about half way through it.


This probably has nothing to do with anything I was just googling for an image.

31] Sobre la muerte de la ciudad del valle germinará mi canto, Jorge Carrera Bolaños, cited in Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science; Conference Proceedings, 1998. Reza Sarhangi, ed., Winfield, Kansas, 1998, p. 292.

I am looking forward to a lovely day with my family and friends. The last time thanksgiving day fell on the 22 of november was 1984. THe day my mother died. Also the day Kennedy was murdered in 1963, which is also the day I came close to murdering my mother..

Not to change the subjecto but
The american turkey industry is sick. Factory raised turkeys pumped full of growth hormones and antibiotics. Tastless and gross.

My sister in law always gets the high dollar organic free range birds. Dee lish ous. I am looking forward to being there this year.

Ben Franklin wanted to the turkey to be our national bird. I think it is. Are you familiar with what the word turkey means in american slang?

[Doreen Peri]

I met with the prosecuter today and I am grateful... so very thankful... that he is on my side, after all. He was kind, patient, and supportive and said he would do everything he can to help me through the robbery & destruction of property problem, and will work diligently to help me recover my money and to make sure my kitchen gets repaired so it is at least livable and usable.

I am also grateful for the 5 years I've spent with Clay, though good things will continue in a different manner, and eternally grateful for my daughter's devotion, respect & love, and the love of my family and friends..... including all of you.

Thank you all for being in my life.

[Arcadia]

good news, doreen!!! (it´s not my thanksgiving day but you are in my list, for sure!!!!!!!!!!!!! )

s-t: I was joking, no idea of your husserlian philosophy!! (and it seems it´s a fact I need help translating automatically past form verbs to english, I tend to write them all in present!! . Turkey in slang? mmm... a ver... Lennon´s cold turkey?... mmm...is something near that?. Enjoy the ecologic-turkey!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stilltrucking]

turkey Slang an inept, stupid, or unpleasant person

It might have been the way I cooked that turkey that made it so tasteless.


Sorry I got so pedantic. Time is a trip for me these days. I feel like I am 67 going on 13.

Billy Pilgrim the character in a Vonnegut novel got unstuck in time. I am trying to find my sense of humor.

Sorry I missed the joke.

I am thankful for my cyber friends

[hester_prynne]

Update:

It's now Wednesday night, the night before Thanksgiving. Stella and I are at my sister's house in Seattle, having come back north from Astoria earlier today. We are looking forward to a family thanksgiving, all of us together. And I am grateful to be where I am.

First off, I did not get the job. They called me yesterday and said they had "selected a different candidate". I wasn't surprized but at least I tried it and got to spend some time in Olympia looking around. I really like it there.

Funny thing about the interview, is that when I got to the building where the interview was being held, it was right by the capitol building. A block away, I could hear protesters in the street, chanting to "end the war", "bring our troops home", "Impeach Bush". It was a compelling moment for me, for there I was, going to interview with the state attorney general's office, but really, I was torn because I so wanted to ditch that, and go hold up a sign with the protesters.

It was a quandry for me, and I took this with me to the interview I think. Plus at the interview, they told me a couple of the applicants had 20 years plus experience in law......

I guess I'm just saying that maybe a government job is not really for me at all. Perhaps an executive position in a nonprofit org...is where I will set my bow. Anyway, I will move to Olympia in the near future. I will make it happen, so I can see Stella more. She is doing so well.

It was good validation going back to Astoria for a few days too. Same old "too much getting stoned" squalor I left behind. It really was clear to me why I left there, why I can't go back, except to visit. It's dark there, depressing, and I've just outgrown it. It's great for Stella, great for her dad, who is remarried with a small child there, but for me there is nothing but loneliness there, I felt it so strongly. Some of my friends there, it was sad seeing them, because I missed them, but I missed them when I was living there too. It was alot of give, and no get for me there anymore, to put it bluntly. I'm glad I got out......I think there are a few people there that are glad I got out too!!!! (Just to let you all know, I saw scooter there! At the bookstore! I must say he looks really really good and healthy and it was good to see him!!!!Our visit was cut way tooo short!!!!!)

Anyway, tommorrow is thankfulness day itself, and I am thankful.
I'm looking forward to a day of quiet depthful love and appreciation for what I have, i.e. my daughter, my family, food, warmth, everyone here at the studio, the day, the hours, the minutes, seconds, all devoted to thankfulness for the day.
Let's all look at the stars tommorrow night together!
Happy, Happy, Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
H

[stilltrucking]

Happy thanksgiving Hester
I am trying to spin/vibrate you my best wishes for success in your move to Olympia.

[e_dog]

Damn, doreen, you got robbed? Are you okay?

btw, thats a great new photo icon on your profile.


stilltru: let us know when you finish Husserl. that will be a momentous accomplishment, like readin' the whole bible. Of course, when the snake gets thru eating its tail, it has to eat its own head. now, THEN that's some freaky internal consciousness!

[Lightning Rod]

what an entertaining thread

I'm thankful for all of you

hest, you are such a trooper. As always I love your spirit.

truck, the snake thing is also a variation on the yin-yang which is sometimes depicted as two fishes swallowing each other.

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.