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Ph. had another indoor soccer match this morning–Sunday morning–at 7:00
\na.m.  A crazy-maker to scurry around so early on a weekend morning for a
\nsporting event.  They have two games left–both next Sunday afternoon;
\nfollowing that we can get back to keeping pace with one sport at a time. 
\nLacrosse runs until late May or early June.  And then a busy summer (me:
\ntake one class, teach two), including D. and Ph. making a once-in-a-lifetime
\ntrip to Kenya (I’ll say more another time).<\/p>\n

Why Sunday, 7:00 a.m.?  Something to do with devout church-goers needing
\nto keep 9 ’til noon soccer-free, as I understand it.  There were just two 7
\na.m. games on the schedule.  The other one was last week.  We managed
\nto miss the first half of that one.  Completely my fault. 
\nTeam manager sent an email last Saturday reminding us the game was at 7 a.m.,
\nand I even responded to the note with a "We’ll be there!"  Only that in my
\nmind, 7:55<\/i> a.m. hijacked all other schedule awareness.  I discovered
\nthe error and we sped over to the facility by 7:25 a.m.  Chalk it up to the
\nfail-at-parenting log, entry no. 992.  <\/p>\n

Languor, too, in the sense that I’m slugging through a project this weekend. 
\nIt’s felt like such a laborious stretch, but so much of that’s the result of my
\nown mania.  I care too much about getting this one right.  And instead
\nI’ve resorted to drafting a circular, winding, exploratory draft due for some
\nserious restructuring.  Should say I’m relieved that there’s time for that,
\nat least.  <\/p>\n

In the extended entry I’ve folded yet another image experiment.  When I
\ndownloaded Wink the other day I came across
\nWinMorph<\/a>, a
\nfreeware app for warping images or morphing two (or more) images and rendering
\nthem into a short movie (Flash or MPG1).  Spectacular?  Either way,
\nsomething to be said for the irreconcilable ambiguity of conceptual (gone act-ual) blending.\n<\/p>\n

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