Gleanings of joy

[chanaleh]

This week's Puzzability quote:
E.B. White said, "We should all do what in the long run gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry."

Joyful things this weekend:

• Both melissaagray and farwing turned up to shul Friday night. How awesome is that??
  
• It is rumored that jessruth had a highly successful date ;-)
  
• HM's Sunday rehearsal included auditions for the solo on a new piece we're learning. I wasn't really planning to even try for it, but then I did... and, er, got it. :-}
  
• kalessin and I made chicken soup, complete with matzah balls, for ablock's Souper Bowl viewing. I only wish I could have stayed longer to enjoy people's enjoyment of it... but I needed to get on to rjpb's, where I arrived just in time for the first touchdown.
  
• The Patriots won.

There were other good things that went on this weekend, which, unfortunately, I've since come to feel rather a complete fool for having taken any joy in. It's worse in that I feel like I have no right to be dismayed, or disappointed, but can't help it nevertheless.

At least it's given me a lot to think about.

Also, in only tangentially related news, it sucks to send a where-are-you-please-write e-mail to someone you miss who's been on your mind... and get no response, not even an acknowledgment. Sucks. Knowing that I myself am sometimes guilty of inflicting this same behavior doesn't help, either.

Comments

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

Maybe said person is in the middle of deadline pressure at work or ill and not logging in or on vacation or having computer problems or... ?

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Entirely possible... but until I get more information, trying to rationalize doesn't make it suck any less. :-}

[navrins]

You could phone said person. Or is that blasphemy?

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[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I don't even know if the phone number (nor mailing address) I have is current.

Worth a try, I guess. (But when the content of the shout-out is "hi, am I supposed to be taking a hint here?" -- well, now I'm hesitant to call without an initial response.)

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[navrins]

Ah. Well then. It all depends on circumstances, I guess.

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[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Argh! I did that to myself with a letter mailed *years* ago, and *still* feel debarred from trying to contact them again. It taught me the lesson of structuring choices so that silence = me being debarred from further action, but it still sucks. *hugs*

Mer

[exponentialdk.livejournal.com]

The quote: I did the puzzle, but had to pretty much complete the whole thing before I saw the word JOY in there. I'm sure bethr would read much meaning into this (not that I disagree).

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

I understand about the contact thing. I have one old friend whom I call periodically, not in more than a year though. Last I called she asked for my number again and said she wanted to keep in touch but was really busy. So I told her, when yo uhave time and want to talk call me. I never heard from her again. I'm tempted to try again around her birthday just to wish her a happy birthday.