Loft or Low?

Day Six for Imaginary Life Five, Carpenter:

Starting to get a sense of what's going to be coming with us to our new place and I'm thinking of the possibilities of whole new arrangements. One of the things I wanted to make in our current place that I never got to was a "reading cave".

When I was in college I had a bed with height settings that I lifted to the highest level so I could sleep underneath it. I LOVED sleeping like that and having a completely unconventional space in my room with levels. So I'm thinking either high up or down low. Or BOTH.

Soooooo much potential.

Haiku of the Day:

New iPhone update
the interface of my life
just changed drastically

Today's Drawing

Juggernaut

1 : (chiefly British) a large heavy truck
2 : a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path

Speakin' UP

Day Seven for Imaginary Life Six, Voice Actor:

Spoke with my brother about helping him out with an upcoming project with voice stuff. Another reason I feel like it would be nice to be closer to home. Ah well.

Did some voices while reading to Emily. I'm a little uneasy with certain voices, especially if they switch around a bunch. I'd like to figure out some way to practice more regularly to get the muscle memory to work.

Haiku of the Day:

All the glass vessels
from the preceding six years
etch a clear timeline

Today's Drawing

Implacable - not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated

Zooming In and Out

Day Six for Imaginary Life Three, History Teacher:

I'm a news junkie. I've been following the election like a crazy person. I'm pretty sure it's part of the reason I'm been bumming as of late...so many things to be afraid of. That's why it's good to study history - to get that distance, that context so you don't feel like you're drowning all the time.

Unless you start looks at climate change. Then it's best to zoom and try to forget...*sigh*

Haiku of the Day:

In the great below
we raise our lanterns higher
to face the darkness

Today's Drawing

Hare - to go swiftly

Kibosh?

Day Seven for Imaginary Life Seven, Survivalist:

This life has hit the back-burner since I stopped reading my zombie cookbook. We're continuing the massive purge of our crap before the move and it's making me rethink priorities. I realize how few clothes I own. And the cold weather's creeping up. What do you do in the cold times?

I'm starting to get afraid of the new life that's ahead. I'm getting a familiar dread. The old move stress has creeped back in.

Haiku of the Day:

Brutal retelling
of a husband's poor finger
cleft twain at the nail

Today's Drawing

Kibosh - something that serves as a check or stop

Moving to Move

Day Six for Imaginary Life One, Dancer:

I'm using the dance as a therapy these days. A chance to express all the feelings. This is where the machine breaks down - where I can't get the clockwork to do what I want it to do. Too many feelings. They are derailing. I get on pure reaction time and have spend all my time catching up.

There's a symptom treatment going down while the cause wrecks its sweet self across the landscape.

Haiku of the Day:

Muffled conductor
spouts out a few instructions
for the commuters

Today's Drawing

Flippant - lacking proper respect or seriousness

Fall Comin'

Checking in and hoping to keep a little more up to date with things leading into the move.

It's proving difficult.

I haven't had anything to drink in September so far. The residual from the resolution I had for this month at the beginning.

I can feel the fall coming. It's taken residence in my bones.

Haiku of the Day:

Hitting the pavement
all the limbs tense and shakey
I'm a newborn foal

Today's Drawing

Myrmidon - a loyal follower; especially : a subordinate who executes orders unquestioningly or unscrupulously

Get Done

Day Six for Imaginary Life Six, Voice Actor:

I'vebeen trying to read Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston because it had come up on the new "season" of Crash Course Literature and I thought I should read it. Unfortunately the dialect of the dialogue has been a real chore to wade through. But today I started reading it out loud and it was much better. I figured that along with reading aloud to the wife and during a couple runs of the game Above and Below, I deserved a credit towards voice actor today.

Haiku of the Day:

With an empty day

and a cogent continence

so much can get done

Today's Drawing

Devolve

1 a : to pass by transmission or succession
b : to fall or be passed usually as a responsibility or obligation
2 : to come by or as if by flowing down
3 : to degenerate through a gradual change or evolution