John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls, to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
"The breath goes now," and some say, "No:"

So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.

Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears;
Men reckon what it did, and meant;
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.

Dull sublunary lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.

But we by a love so much refin'd,
That ourselves know not what it is,
Inter-assured of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.

Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.

If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the' other do.

And though it in the centre sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.

Such wilt thou be to me, who must
Like th' other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end, where I begun.

new year, new leaf?

i've always hated new year's resolutions. well, maybe hated is a strong word. but i don't like 'em. mostly because it's seems a little silly to base a new start on the turn of a calendar year. but maybe it just gives people a reason and a time frame to have a new start.

with that in mind, i now am the proud owner of a 2nd alarm clock. makes for a stress-free leisurely morning routine, which i'm enjoying so far. also rented all kinds of trendy exercise videos (pilates, tai chi, etc.) for fun, entertainment, oh yeah, and a little exercise too :)

back to work!

the native is restless

so a four-day weekend, although relaxing, has made me a bit restless. so on the fourth day, bri decided to leave the house! just kidding, i've left the house- just not often. and isn't it annoying when i refer to myself in third person? today i have great ambitions for all kinds of stuff - we'll see!

overheard and worth repeating:

everytime i watch gangs of new york, my inner monologue has an accent for a few days afterward.

tomorrow it's back to work, and i know i'll later think i'm crazy for saying this, but i'm actually looking forward to it!

happy 2005!

the new year is here :) make the most of it

a new year and the days get longer

'stay or leave..i want you not to go..isn't it strange how it changes everything we did?' (loosely quoting) ah dave matthews, enjoying my acoustic version of the heart wrenching 'stay or leave' this morning :)
work is so quiet this week. today, among other things, my plan is to clean and organize my desk (maybe a little rearrangement?) and make sure we ship everything we're supposed to ship (that last one might take a good portion of my day).

i want every instant to be as lovely as crayons*

now listening to a little federico aubele, definite recommend if you like music that almost makes you want to sashay (a: WALK, GLIDE, GO b : to strut or move about in an ostentatious or conspicuous manner c : to proceed or move in a diagonal or sideways manner ), now if only sashay was low lowercase...
*another steal, gu cheng, from headstrong boy

my flight is what?

that's right. it's cancelled- but we've recovered, it's been rescheduled for tomrrow - and we're flying FIRST CLASS! damn roanoke weather...

merry christmas eve eve!

today is a wonderful day ;) got in to work at 5:56 am, am headed out on a flight at 3 for phoenix!

one person can make the same mistake at least 3 times

in case you were wondering... on the bright side, i had a mystery gift on my desk this morning that turned out to be from none than joey card! :) i'll have to test my trivia on how well i know the 90s ;)

long blogs long gone?

it's been awhile since i typed up a nice lengthy blog. seems as if my attention is scattered all over the place lately!
even now, i got caught up doing other things for a few hours and abandoned this post.
so it's the shortest day of the year, which reminds me of a james richardson quote:
...which i can't find. but i will later! and i will post it!

punctuation for sarcasm?

so i read an article on slate today about the sarcasm point. preceded by legendary greats such as the exclamation point and question mark, the sarcasm point makes its debut on slate.com. it's the best thing since sliced breadi

look ma! my lotion's froze!

so i keep a bottle of lotion in car for when i forget to put it on my hands in the morning, and this morning, i went to use it, and it was frozen solid. i'm moving to a warmer state!

stick a fork in me...

...i'm done! done i tell you! done! down down down, go go go, mine mine mine...oh, sorry, wrong rant :) point is, no more school until january! :)

above thy deep and dreamless sleep...

let's take a vote...

is it okay, or not okay to eat a gravy biscuit while on a diet? i suppose i already know the answer to that.

if i close my eyes, do you think they'll all go away?

that may be too much to hope for this morning. i'm flying it solo. typically, my office is shared with 2 other people (the other supervisor, and our boss), but they're both in training tuesday-thursday this week so it's just me and the soap opera that is our workplace.
today is the last day of class for me, then only 2 finals stand between me and the couch, sex and the city, and wine! sister soiree here i come.
in other news, my boyfriend has taken to calling me "briannica" as in britannica due to my almost compulsive need to look everything up. but i've been called worse ;)
counting the days until i get one off...

random lisa loeb lyrics

I was restless,
I was restless,
I was restless,
I was restless.
I just want this to be good,
I just want this to be good.
but you don't understand,
you don't understand me, and I want to be understood.

But if it doesn't brush my shoulder,
and it doesn't beat my heart,
that's not what I want - no, that's not where I will start.
I never kissed somebody so that they would break my heart,
that's not what I want.

happy birthday michael :)

foresight

i can't remember where i read it, but a long time ago, i read a story about a guy who when he was 17, sat down and wrote a list of everything he wanted to accomplish in life. i mean, a huge list. it was like hundreds of items long. and crazy stuff too, like...see such and such river in africa, or climb whatever mountain. at the time the story was published, he had worked through the list to a substantial degree (he was maybe in his 60's by that point?), so...i guess the point is, i was just thinking about how incredible that is since sometimes i don't even know what i'm doing next week.

merry christmas from cleo.

how many times can one person make the same mistake?

i woke up this morning at 7:20 to the sound of my phone ringing. what time do i start work? 7.