Monthly Archive for June, 2006

One more time

James Taylor puts it well right now. He’s where I can see getting - or actually feel at the moment. Maybe I slept through a phone call last night, maybe I wasn’t called, but it feels like years that I’ve been waiting, and maybe she’s gone.

What I Want

A number of years ago, one of my friends asked me: What is your perfect woman? The timing was right, and the response came to mind last night.
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24 hours

What a difference a day makes. And not always a good difference. 48 hours ago I was going to bed under the stars, looking at the milky way and reflecting on how everything was falling into place. 24 hours ago I was going to bed with my emotional world in shambles. And now I’m going to bed, not sure if I’ve missed my chance to recover and repair.
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She comes back to tell me she’s gone

As if I didn’t notice my own way. As if I hadn’t noticed the way she brushed her hair in a foreign way.

That’s what I hear from Paul Simon’s Graceland, which isn’t quite right, but expresses the mood. I noticed that the cadence and content of her communication had changed over the last few weeks, and when she told me it wasn’t unexpected.
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Lucky Slevin

Sometimes you have to be in the right mood for a certain movie. I seem to be in the right mood for most movies, most of the time. Or maybe it’s that I see movies so rarely that I get into the right mood right quickly. I mean, I see at most one movie every few weeks, if not every couple of months. Forget about going to the theatre - two or three times in the last year.
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Management

Moving into a somewhat management position within a larger company. Most of the people from the current company are going. And once my paperwork comes through…
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444 AM

I missed this time of day, when the roads are empty and the sun hasn’t decided to come up just yet, but is definitely making motions to do so.