i am tired. know why? because. marlei and i drove to knoxville last night. and drove back this afternoon.
we drove to knoxville for the sake of tumbling. let me clarify: we watched her daughter's tumbling invitational.
twenty-four hours ago, i could not tell you a damned thing about tumbling. now, i am something like an expert. i sat in the bleachers for several hours, chomping on $2 hot pretzels and drinking $3 bottled water, watching. i listened to the tumbling mom drama happening all around me, as mothers with camcorders practically accused the judges of taking bribes. scandal. (the judges were more focused on all the candy they got to eat while sealing fates than actually watching the girls compete. this was my astute assessment.) i watched girl comraderie, as fellow athletes in matching track suits whispered and cheered together. marlei and i pried open our eyes as we sat through the neverending awards ceremony.
and then we drove home.
and then i grew stir crazy.
played video games.
played guitar.
tried (futilely) to make last minute plans. failed.
rented movie.
talked to my long lost darling victoria.
blogged in pajamas and slippers.
and now she goes to bed.
Posted by bananie at January 25, 2003 12:00 AM | TrackBack
That sounds like a pretty good evening to me...
lub
j xx
Annie, Oh, you brought back the memories. Not of tumbling, but of swim meets. Twelve hours long, eighter at an outside pool when it's 105, or a steamy, inddoor pool with bleachers. "A great time to fellowship with the other mothers!" I'd try to tell myself. But we were NEVER closer by the end of the day--tee, hee. xox
Anne-
have just come across writer A.L Kennedy and wondered if you have too, as her very careful and detailed style reminds me a leeetle of your own.
'The best love is a little like light. It is unremitting, cannot fail to find you, to take the shortest, surest way way,as if that were marked out as part of your nature, the line where you and love are made to meet. It is your law, the physics of your life. It will move you from somewhere to nowhere and back again and it will make you lost. It is beautiful and terrible and blinding and you will never understand the trick of it.'
-from 'indelible acts'
good stuff.
all the best,
effie
effie, i have not heard of a.l. kennedy, but i am definitely intrigued. thank you for comparing me to someone who apparently has much to say, and says it well. i'm honored.
where should i start with her work?
Posted by: bananie at January 27, 2003 01:47 PM
I'm in the middle of the delicious 'indelible acts'--a collection of short stories, (recently published i don't know who by)each one more hearty and gorgeous than the next. I haven't read anything else so I don't know where the best place is to start, but here seems as good a place as any!