February 2, 2000

preparation

The Jessamin whose namesake (spelled Jessamine I learned, the namesake, someone thought better of the 'e' while naming a descendant) was pictured here before has a more representative picture and site. I think I see a resemblance. What would have that stately woman with the dog thought of WEB sites? Now she is on one. Nice dog, too.

I was caught up in trying to prepare to visit all these customers today but also was bantering around e-mails trying to accomplish something without meetings. I'm on a crusade against meetings.

After work we had a meeting with some financial wonks. You always learn something from them, but there is always something they don't know much about. And, of course, they want to help themselves to some of what money you have. Of course. Everyone has to live. This so tired me and made my eyes roll back that we had to go to Zoot and have some dinner. I had those little delicious dumplings that they've had on the app menu for a long time, some pork and a couple of glasses of Saint Cosme Rhone. (70% Syrah/30% Grenache).

I've been looking at other people's offerings again and the ones that attract me are the ones that manage to bang out something most every day. I don't know why. Maybe because they are just the most interesting anyway. It's not easy to do. Mighty Kymm mentions today that she sent someone a Christmas card. This someone was in a bookstore and looked at a 'journaler's mag' and Kymm was there. Someone beside her was looking at the same mag and telling her friend she read Kymm. The person with the Christmas Card whipped it out (she just happened to have it) and really impressed the stranger. That's all nice and circular but what I got out of it was: there is a magazine about this habit?? But, of course, there is a magazine for everything. I saw a magazine for bisexuals called 'Anything that Moves.' I'm not kidding.

A relative passed along a diatribe from someone else about the movie 'Dogma.' They expected it to be religious in their sense of the word. OK, if you have a certain idea of religion, you probably shouldn't see it. But my favorite part of this message was this: "They had another protrayal for Jesus (he was winking and giving the thumbs up sign)." Another would imply that what? There is one true protrayal of Jesus? Anyway, these people felt that God was taking names on who saw the movie and they apologized in prayer to God. Now, I wonder how these same people reacted to 'City of Angels' which was a remake of one of my favorites 'Wings of Desire.' Supposedly Wim Wenders sanctioned the remake with Meg Ryan unconvincingly posing as a doctor and Nicholas Cage trying to have electrifying eyes. I hated it. I like the original with the woman worth falling to earth for being a circus performer. It's really 'Himmel über Berlin' in German. Actually the only cool parts of 'City' is seeing the angels sitting on signposts and stuff but Berlin is a much better backdrop for these shenanigans, if you asked me. Especially Berlin before 1989, before the wall disappeared into millions of little fragments sold on ebay. (Actually, I have a picture of some friends with a fragment of the Berlin wall taken, I think, in Montreal. Or was it Toronto? No, Montreal, I'm sure of it.)

Now how did I get off on that.

Well, Kymm is also talking about what she's gotten from her site link to amazon.com. Myself...I like to link people to bn.com just to be contrarian. (Hey...I don't get anything anyway and those guys will give you click miles.) But I'm hardly ever reading anything unfortunately. I did get two more Maeve Brennan books and two nerd books in the mail today. As if. I haven't finished the Brennan book I started that made me want them. Just wait until I retire. Just wait. I'm going to read 'em all.

"The pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance"

Geroge William Curtist, Prue and I

Jessamine