The Visible Woman...March 21, 2003

I am still trying my new exercises. Today is the second set, different from Wednesday's. (The first day I really started the program as opposed to learning it. And I use the term learning loosely.) The fitness guy recommends ten minutes of aerobic before and after. I do fifteen. Because I like to start slowly and I want to keep losing weight. Or not gain any anyway.

At home I made tuna salad. The bookkeeper came and we had lots of different food to offer. She settled on some fish cakes and a spinach salad. It's not every day that I can offer someone lunch here and a choice at that.

I clear the weeds from a gravel path in front of the house. I fret over the upcoming e-mail change.

We were going to have dinner with a friend but she is sick. So we decide to lounge in the bed after eating something, reading and watching TV.

Around 10 we roust ourselves out and go to a party for the star of Twisted Olivia. We saw the performance already, but many people had just seen it tonight. We drink wine and talked to Karen Kuykendall (the hostess), Stuart Moulton (Austin Cabaret Theater's main man and Karen's real estate associate) and Joe Slate and Patricia Bauer-Slate. Joe is a UT English professor and they own Sweetish Hill. We remember when it was on the east side. Particia is doing the food. They talk about how they met (she was an English grad student) and about how people steal everything at the restaurant. I talk to Stuart about a board meeting I'm hosting for ACT and a benefit we want to organize.

The star of the show (the one man show) arrives, but he's sort of surrounded. We nod our congratulations, that's about all.

Home, bed.

It's weird. I'm retired but I can't find time for this journal. The changeover of WEB hosting, DSL, mail has taken time. I seem to be constantly busy. I want to do the journal. Or, at least, have it later. Go figure. I'm also not finding time for other things I need or want to do.

			changes and changes of plans I am still trying my new exercises. Today is the second set, different from Wednesday's. (The first day I really started the program as opposed to learning it. And I use the term learning loosely.) The fitness guy recommends ten minutes of aerobic before and after. I do fifteen. Because I like to start slowly and I want to keep losing weight. Or not gain any anyway. At home I made tuna salad. The bookkeeper came and we had lots of different food to offer. She settled on some fish cakes and a spinach salad. It's not every day that I can offer someone lunch here and a choice at that. I clear the weeds from a gravel path in front of the house. I fret over the upcoming e-mail change. We were going to have dinner with a friend but she is sick. So we decide to lounge in the bed after eating something, reading and watching TV. Around 10 we roust ourselves out and go to a party for the star of Twisted Olivia. We saw the performance already, but many people had just seen it tonight. We drink wine and talked to Karen Kuykendall (the hostess), Stuart Moulton (Austin Cabaret Theater's main man and Karen's real estate associate) and Joe Slate and Patricia Bauer-Slate. Joe is a UT English professor and they own Sweetish Hill. We remember when it was on the east side. Particia is doing the food. They talk about how they met (she was an English grad student) and about how people steal everything at the restaurant. I talk to Stuart about a board meeting I'm hosting for ACT and a benefit we want to organize. The star of the show (the one man show) arrives, but he's sort of surrounded. We nod our congratulations, that's about all. Home, bed. It's weird. I'm retired but I can't find time for this journal. The changeover of WEB hosting, DSL, mail has taken time. I seem to be constantly busy. I want to do the journal. Or, at least, have it later. Go figure. I'm also not finding time for other things I need or want to do.

	Austin geese "Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents" Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860)
	JUST TYPING The more I get to live. The less time I find. To write it down.

Friday, March 21, 2003