Safe Places

So, I have been sick the past two days. I feel like once it is nice and sunny outside, a person just shouldn't be sick. Oh well. I am pumping myself full of tea and getting plenty of rest in the evenings. When I am sick, I really just want to be in my bed. Come to think of it, even when I'm not sick I really just want to be in my bed. Hmm. Remember when you were little and you would try just about anything to avoid the impending doom of bed time!! When brother was little, probably 4 or 5, we would here him in his room, long after he was put to bed, moving the furniture around. There once was a time when I would look at the clock and thing, "Ok Kate, it's getting late, you really need to get to bed." Now, I look at the clock and say, "Ok Kate, it's only 8pm, you can't possibly justify going to bed now... go grocery shopping or something." Ah, how times do change. My friend sent me this picture in an email and it made me laugh...mostly because it's true! Enjoy!

On a clear, sunny day

Ahhh... I write to you from the sunny patio of the Cup O' Joe in the Short North. It is a BEAUTIFUL day outside! This is why I love the spring. Jessi and I have spent the day here, mostly being productive, which is pretty good for us! Generally when we try to go somewhere and be productive we end up talking... a lot. However, this afternoon, I have written thank you notes, read the first chapter in Blue Like Jazz (book my Bible study group is reading), and worked on some stuff for work... all while enjoying the beautiful weather and working on my tan (I use this word lightly because I'm pasty and don't really tan). I am enjoying the music of my newly made mix CDs. I have named them "songs of summer 1" and "songs of summer 2". The summer music anthology will be complete when I make "songs of summer nights". I carefully selected all the songs and they are all attached to summer memories. For example, the song "got you where I want you" by The Flys reminds me of driving around in my friend Becky's car when we were in high school and my friend Kyle trying to drive it while sticking his head out of the sunroof. Ah, the silly things we did in high school. Another thing I love about the spring is that everyone is out and about. Jessi and I stopped at the North Market to grab lunch before we settled at Cup O Joe and it was packed. It's so nice to feel like part of civilization. And everyone is so much friendlier in the spring. In the winter everyone walks with their head down and very quickly. This is mostly because if you look up, the bone chilling wind will surely freeze your eyeballs and they will fall out of their sockets. But, in the spring, everyone walks slowly and with their head up, and so people smile. People don't smile in Columbus in the winter. Another great part of nice weather is people watching... I am a chronic people watcher. Sometimes in the winter, when we all hibernate in our homes, I kind of forget that people exist. I particularly love watching groups of people. It makes me happy to see people enjoying each other and caring about each other. I also like watching couples. It's fun because you can tell which couples are new, which ones are established... the best though are people on first dates. There is a lovely awkwardness shared between people on a first date. Well, I will stop rambling now and continue to enjoy the sunshine!!!

"go in peace and be free from your suffering"

Yet another new Lost last night! I think that this makes 4 weeks in a row! Some things that happened in last night's episode were unexpected while others were totally predictable! Unexpected: A back story of characters that would not be considered "main characters", Rose was/is sick, Locke is starting to "loose faith" in the island. Predictable: Jack would ask Kate to go with him on his adventure, they would end up trapped in a net precariously close to one another, you could cut the sexual tension with a machete. What really stuck with me from last night's episode was that Rose had/has cancer and that she feels the island has "healed" her. She and Locke seem to have quite a bit in common, and it seemed like they knew each others stories. I think the notion of the island being a place of healing is interesting to me. Both Locke and Rose feel like the island has special healing powers and neither is keen of leaving the island. The fear is that back in the "real world" Locke would again be paralyzed and Rose's cancer would return. Even in season one, Locke struggled with "obeying" the island because he feared that the island would take away his gift of walking. So, here's my deep thought about all of this. Do you think that the healing power of the island is a gift to it's inhabitants or a means of manipulation? If I had a life altering condition and I found a place where it was taken away, I would have a hard time leaving... even if it wasn't a place that was ultimately beneficial to me. Have Rose and Locke been deceived? Is this a way of manipulating people to want to stay and give to the island, if this a way to keep people on the island? I would like to think that if I were in Locke or Rose's position, if I discovered that island would ultimately be bad for me in the end that I would be strong enough to leave... but I don't know.

I love spring!

Ahh, spring is finally here!! I am in a really good mood today, for the following reasons!!!

1. This weekend was great! I saw LOTS of friends, helped my friend Kathy paint her new office, went to a great concert with Mike and Amanda, went shopping, went for a walk, and cooked out (I love cooking out!)!

2. It's a short week... only 4 days, our office is closed on good friday!

3. New Lost this week!

4. I get to go the Cleveland again this weekend and some of my favorite people ever!

5. It's been beautiful outside!

"What dreams may come"

Ah, Lost... so glad it was another new episode. I enjoyed last night's episode. I have to say that it was pretty predictable that Dave would end up being imaginary... very "beautiful mind". So, I am going to go directly to my observations/questions for the evening!

1) "Henry" mentioned that "couldn't reveal any information about himself to Jack because "He" is dangerous. It seems like "He" is not the bearded guy that stole Walt, so who do yo think "He" might be. Also, do you think that there is more than one group of others?

2) During the conversation between Locke and "Henry", Locke said "God only knows where we are." Henry said that God can't see the island, just like no one else can see the island. What does that mean???

3) The whole Hurley, Dave, Libby thing. They definitley left it ambiguous as to whether or not the whole show is all in Hurley's head or not. On one hand, they placed a lot of clues that would point towards that conclusion... Libby being in the Hospital, a picture of an island in his psychologist's office. On the other hand, I don't think that they would give away the end of the show in the middle of the second season given that they plan for the show to be about 5-7 seasons long. What are your thoughts?

That's all for right now! Have a wonderful thursday! It's almost the weekend!!!!

I need...

a vacation

Clarification

So, upon discussion with a few of my friends about my last post, I feel as though I should clarify that I did not leave the card for the waiter. My boss left a card without my knowledge... I found out after she had already given it to him. Apparently that piece of information wasn't apparent in my last post. I clarify this because as one of my friends pointed out that if I had left the card myself, that would have been "desperate". Just in case it was ever in question, I am not desperate.