Strangechord

I’ve been working full time most of the past two months, stepping in for a co-worker who had to take a medical leave. It’s the first time in three years that I’ve worked 40 hours per week, plus I’ve been putting in about 20 hours per week into Portland Peak Oil. As you know, this blog has taken a backseat for a while.

Randomata:

• I love Portland this time of year, as Spring starts to give us all the come-on. April, May and June are blissful and I can’t wait.
  
• I’m pretty sore “Brokeback Mountain” lost the Oscar for Best Picture. I’ve seen “BM” twice now in the theatre and love it for its subtleties more than anything else. Plus, it’s one of those films for me that the more I linger on it in my mind, the more it grows on me. Haunting, as I say.
  
• Even though I’m surrounded by people on a weekly basis through my grassroots work, workplace and other milieus, I feel a bit lonely. A lot of the social interaction has been really head-based and thinky/talky or superficial/shoot the breeze and I long for more frequent deeper connections with others. Not quite sure what to do about this just yet.
  
• I really want to visit Iceland, particularly before gas prices hit an unfeasible high for air transportation.
  
• Speaking of places, I saw Woody Allen’s “Match Point” last week and left the theatre totally homesick for London. God, I miss that city.
  
• This cracked me up today.
  
• I wish I lived closer in to the city center so I could ride my bike everywhere.