bay area is home/music's always on/
/ex-academic, overachieving obsessor, now fully rehabilitated and integrated into a 9-5 life/life, in turn, is good.
About the richest 15-second conversation you can have in an elevator.
Stranger:
It's a nice day out, isn't it?
Me:
Definitely is. Wish I wasn't working today, I want to be outside.
Stranger:
(Chuckles) Keep sleeping and waking up, then you'll end up retired just like me, and hopefully NOT going to doctors appointments, and hopefully outside.
A woman sleeps accompanied by her cat, inside an evacuation center for victims hit by floods caused by Typhoon Ketsana, locally known as Ondoy, in the town of Taytay, Rizal east of Metro Manila, October 13, 2009
"How we squander our hours of pain. How we gaze upon them into bitter duration to see if they have an end. Though they are really our winter-enduring foliage, our dark evergreen, one season in our inner year, not only a season in time, but our place and settlement, foundation and soil and home."