Important Announcement

[in_the_blue]

(clears throat)

I am pleased as all get-go to announce that we are now officially thawing out. Which is a Very Good Thing, because I have three clients to see today and a dinner date tonight to go somewhere and let someone else cook me delicious vegetarian Carib food choices.

I feel like I've been stuck inside for a week. Practically have. I can't remember ever being lucky enough as a student to pull four snow days in a row; Hannah is one lucky little third-grader.

Further news: we've decided to say hang it all to dialup and go with wireless high-speed via satellite and a home network so everyone here can be online as much as they want without stepping on one anothers' toes. This of course means that I need a new PC that supports the technology, but that was a foregone thing anyway. There is no reason for me to have to boot this ancient yet wonderful piece of equipment more than once to get it to come up cleanly, yet I do it on a regular basis. I hope I get my new one (oh, decisions, decisions - laptop or desktop- opinions, anyone?) before this one dies a lingering death, taking all my data with it.

(Waves hello to the new people on her friends list, thanks to everyone who made a recommendation for me!)

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When sff_corgi first strongarmed me into my own LiveJournal, I told her no. No way, I'm not spending any time on this thing, I already have enough to do.

I lied. I'm actually downright sociable, even though I work in a solitary profession. My circle of friends has expanded to include people from all over the world. I like it that way.

And, just because he's one of my favourite poets in the known universe, here's one of my all-time most loved poems by Pablo Neruda, from The Captain's Verses.



The Queen

I have named you queen.
There are taller ones than you, taller.
There are purer ones than you, purer.
There are lovelier than you, lovelier.

But you are the queen.

When you go through the streets
no one recognizes you.
No one sees your crystal crown, no one looks
at the carpet of red gold
that you tread as you pass,
the nonexistent carpet.

And when you appear
all the rivers sound
in my body, bells
shake the sky,
and a hymn fills the world.

Only you and I,
only you and I, my love,
listen to it.

Comments

*sobs*

[shellebelle93.livejournal.com]

You just *had* to post Pablo Neruda. *snif* His stuff is so beautiful. Makes me want to learn Spanish so I can read it in the original.

Re: *sobs*

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

As you wish.

LA REINA

Yo te he nombrado reina.
Hay más altas que tú, más altas.
Hay más puras que tú, más puras.
Hay más bellas que tú, más bellas.

Pero tú eres la reina.

Cuando vas por las calles
nadie te reconoce.
Nadie ve tu corona de cristal, nadie mira
la alfombra de oro rojo
que pisas cuando pasas,
la alfombra que no existe.

Y cuando asomas
suenan todos los ríos
en mi cuerpo, sacuden
el cielo las campanas,
y un himno llena el mundo.

Sólo tú y yo,
sólo tú y yo, amor mío,
lo escuchamos.

Re: *sobs*

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

[thoughtfully] I keep being told I have a good accent. I could phonepost that if nudged....