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Sunday, June 25, 2000
One year ago: Swing This! Again
Two years ago: My Dinner with Helen
The entire day today was taken up by doing laundry. Sheesh! I'd fallen behind on this before the film festival, and had just never caught up!
I'd considered just packing the whole mountain up and driving to a laundramat, but desided against it. That would have had the advantage of doing many loads at the same time. The drawback would have been the labor involved in dragging it all out to the car, then finding a laundry with parking in front, then bringing it all home again.
But the constant attendance that laundry needs is very annoying. I get the wash going, then twenty or thirty minutes later I need to drop what I'm working on in my apartment and go back downstairs to move those loads on to the next stage. Wash, dry, fold, bring it back upstairs.
I did get most everything done, though. And it's tangible work -- I can point to the stacks of t-shirts and the row of rayon batik dresses, and know that I'm set for a few weeks. If I had the time on a more regular basis, I'd try to keep up better.
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I got a call a few days ago, from Elizabeth Cook. This is a woman who has known me since I was nine months old! Her family lived on the same street as us in Northern Virginia when I was growing up, and she and my mom were dear friends. She and her husband had originally been from Seattle, and had moved back here in the early eighties. Their being here was a great help when I moved out here with my parents in 1989.
Mrs. Cook called because she'd gotten mail from the family now living in our old house back in the neighborhood. I had a CD in an IRA with a bank that had changed its name, and I'd lost track of it. So the new occupant mailed the bank notice to Elizabeth to turn over to me.
I drove up there for dinner. David (my childhood friend), his wife Rachel and their two young daughters, and a Cook grandson, Kevin, were also there. We had a grand dinner, and chattered and talked for a good while. Kevin and his uncle David discussed the new X-men movie, and David dug up some old X-men comics that had escaped an ealier, ill-advised deaccessioning, to show Kevin the changes that had happened in those early X-men days. Who knows what story elements will get used in the movie?
I was glad to get the CD IRA info -- now I can get this money transferred to something that will get a better return.
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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber
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