Songs songs

I wrote my first song in several years yesterday. I finished it today and... am happy to have something to come home to.

I actually went straight to my mom's place after work and helped her with some things... hanging pictures and cleaning her computer. She's feeling a lot better and is back up and moving. She's got more optimism in her breath and she's had a steady stream of friends and family keeping her mentally active. She's still moving slowly physically, but she's improving noticeably.

The skies have been stepping back from the ground, recently. The morning clouds stay longer, for a few hours. And once they finally burn off, there's what appears to be a crystal ceiling perfect for breaking sunlight across the ground. The recent soft heat inexplicably adds depth and dimension to the already scalar sky. And the clouds' movements resemble those of tides instead of waves. Winter is clearly on its way.

One of the joys I've found in the world of computers is being able to open several streaming radio stations in different instances of browsers/media players. I've got three French talk radio stations going right now while I attempt to immerse myself without buying a plane ticket. I also found what I think is a pretty great language utility provided by BBC... http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/talk/. Realplayer doesn't stream in FF, but IE will run it all. I'm sure it has other languages, but I haven't looked yet.

The days of my week are falling like banks. I watched a seriously disturbing French movie called Martyrs on Sunday night and have been recalling the more colorful scenes while helping various people at work. If you're easily (or maybe not so easily) disturbed by scary movies, this one might be more trouble than it's worth. 50 First Dates, however, was a great look in the other direction. Martyrs is highly disturbing. You've been warned. It's an experience.

I'm going to go listen to some more streaming traffic reports from Dijon.

Annnnd... I made a particularly awesome wallpaper out of pictures of Natalie Portman, lasagna and key lime pie. I could probably live off of any one of them for any amount of time.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/__cw1i5ytxys/SqdG8iItpFI/AAAAAAAAD1U/YhIVifnwC9g/natalie.jpg

:)