Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Today is Saturday. Like a long ago day, when one morning of the week always started the same way (I’m thinking cartoons and cold cereal), Saturday morning (now) means a TToT Post. Fun (in a frustrating way*), satisfying (in a non-self-conscious way) and a way to put a positive outlook on the day ahead (in a low-key, emotional-tone sort of way), it has been my practice to wait until the morning to start to write my first TToT Post. Occasionally, I’ll go and see what is already out there for Posts (which is a gamble, sometimes there’s a ton of Posts up already and worse, if I read them, I get all, how-the-hell-do-I-keep-up-with-this-standard-of-blog-writing.) So here goes.
This Saturday morning I’m quite deliberately not reading any of the other Posts, for reasons that: a) are alluded to in my list and b) might give me a fallback for tomorrow’s Post. Ya never can tell when you might need a spare theme to launch a Post from, know what I mean? In any event, I’ll come back and edit if it turns out that there is something going on that is clearly stated in the other Posts that I should be doing this weekend. (Makes me think of the time, 6 years old at a birthday party, in the middle of the festivities, I came across a little tray of what looked, for all the world to my 6 year old eyes, like candy… little round, pastel, carved shaped things. So I did what any normal kid would do, I popped one in my mouth. It was not candy. It was decorative soap. So I did what any normal 6 year old clark would do, pretend that there was nothing wrong, wait way, way longer than necessary to say I needed the bathroom and went in, closed the door and calmly feeling very embarrassed (yeah, I was alone and still felt like that… I did say I was a clark, right?) spit it out. Hey, who wouldn’t have?
Speaking of parties…you’ll find a couple of Grat List Items referring to the Wakefield Doctrine vid chat last night… more on that tomorrow, fer sure. Time to head out to work.
lets get right to it. This week is easy, I’ve been muy appreciato for:
- …a total surprise, in the mail appeared an envelope (see above) from England!
- got through the otherwise fairly stressful workweek…only today to go to finish it (the week) lol
- my toaster
- we had a Vid chat on ‘the hangout’ last night, very cool people were there, I will resist the temptation to list everyone as ‘individual List Items’ however, I will say thanks to: zoe and Denise, Lizzi and Michelle and …. Kristi(!) and, ….and! Christine … very cool thing to do. Not just the conversation, but you know how (most of us) include an item on these lists about the technology that lets us connect with people that we otherwise would never in a million years encounter otherwise? last night was a little like sitting in a roadside diner and you overhear the people at the next booth say something about blogs and you find out it is one of the people you know only from the internet. like that very cool**
- (you know what’s weird? it’s when you’re talking to someone ‘in virtual person’ like last night’s vid chat and they mention someone’s Real World name, and you’re like… “who? oh! you mean!! so-and-so” lol… personally I like the blog names that I know the people by, when they mention their real name, I get a funny feeling, like when you were a kid? and you’re in the supermarket on the weekend and you see your teacher? and you’re like… ‘err what are you doing here in the world?”
- …the weather in this part of the planet (southern New England) had a relatively mild week, made all the more enjoyable (in a rogerian way) by the horror of extreme cold being experienced by a lot of the rest of the continent
- grateful I don’t live with Friend of the Doctrine Molly (aka Seven Ravens on ‘the Facebook’) in one of the big, square states in the western part of the country, gots to be freezing, except they tend to enjoy that kind of climate
- Michelle! for two reasons, which I will count as one: a) she assured us that there was a Saturday (in Singapore which is 13 hours and one whole damn day ahead of the rest of us!) and 2) it being morning, where she was last night took us out for a walk in the park and a quick stop at a coffee shop… how Jetsonian is that?
- Lizzi for keeping this ‘hop possessed of a continually changing dynamic
- only 2 weeks until Summer!!
* not bad frustrating, more like, yeah!-this-is-gonna-pay-off-big-later-on, frustrating
** oh man! I apologise!! what an old fart I’m turning into…. that analogy? scratch that…instead “…it was a lot like, you know how you go out to clubs and go from one to another, you see some people at one and maybe end dancing with one or two people but then lose track of them at the next club and then it’s the end of the night (around here lets call it 2:30) so you go for breakfast at that all night dinner with the stainless steel siding? and who do you see come in but!! like that***
*** much better
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#10, I wish was true, but still been relatively mild here in NY, too this past week, so I guess I can’t complain weather wise either. And loe that you got a package from Lizzi all the way from England! Awesome and have a great weekend now, Clark!! :)
Janine
of course, I’m using my admittedly odd season reckoning system that marks the end of Winter (and therefore the beginning of Summer…lol) as the date the days start to get longer rather than shorter…i.e. December 21 just makes me feel better to know that sunset is delayed just a tiny bit more each day.
you guys have a good weekend as well!
Cat. Bag. Out….
:) The best laid plans… (I have no idea if that’s how it is spelled.)
Tell me about it!
(which way what is spelled?)
How great that you had a vid chat with the TToT crew. I know what you mean about that funny feeling you get as a kid seeing your teacher in the supermarket … but believe me it’s worse being the teacher and seeing the students in the supermarket! Lol I like that your toaster made the list. A friend of my partner’s from Sicily was staying with us recently for a few months and he had never seen a toaster before and had no idea how to use one – I had to teach him. He was fascinated.
Lizzy
yes it was, you totally need to join us the next time! it’s fun and it’s interesting (a whole range of topics turned up last night from blog writing to hair styling (!) to Singapore to efficient processing of old people in a mobile examination vehicle….an the Doctrine too, of course)
the toaster, I think I probably should put a little back story in for that but I’ll have to come back in a bit (nothing as exciting as I might hope for but not as weird as people might expect….)
Ok….now I will have to find me a transponder and the space shuttle I must’ve stored in my storeroom somewhere. Hmm! You’re welcome, Clark, and I’ll take you guys to better places next time!
Michelle
lol thank you, there is so much potential in this technology… just the hanging out and hearing people’s ideas on such an incredibly wide range of topics. (hey, thanks for the support as (we all) try to master this hangout medium…totally will do a video lunch this winter!
I know what you mean about feeling awkward when real life clashes with blog life- even if it is just a name! Love that you got mail from England- so fun. Happy weekend!
Kate
yeah… gets us way too close to the butterfly dreaming thing! lol (“why you sound so much taller in print, clark!”) lol
No, but that HAPPENS for real! Dyanne did it – she’s shorter in print and actually damn tall!
(What do you mean ‘green monster’?)
I only wish it was only two weeks until summer here. I’m getting geared up to be snowed in :)
Damnnnn it looks like you were careful to blow every bit of gaffe :p
The vidchat was SO AWESOMELY THE BEST THING EVER! I loved it. Even the excruciatingly frustrating bits where I was trying to teach technology from thousands of miles away. Because it WORKED and it was all so wonderful :D
Same again soon, yeah??
gave folks the heebie jeebies with the name thing huh?good thing I still use an alias …my real name is Jimmy Hoffa. Lol. I had a great time talking to everybody last night. Its really nice to see people in real time I think I’ve already said that before. Maybe because I use an alias it doesn’t phase me to hear peoples real name. It did used to freak me out as a kid to run into a teacher in a grocery store because I think I always assumed they just kind of plug their feet into the socket to recharge at night and were not really people at all.
zoe
lol (the teacher imagery)… not so heebie jeebistic as …the world turns, slightly (this is a phenom limited to clarks pretty much, or at least the active deliberate appreciation of the variability of realit.) in fact, I didn’t get a chance to ask last night, and it’s kind of word intensive, but it relates to certain times, as clarks where we get lost in the world… everyday street becomes totally un-familiar…just for a second but long enough to register in the pit of the stomach (a reliable indicator of stumbling upon the uncanny).
totally enjoyed
I got “lost” on my own street this morning… I swore I couldn’t recognize where I was…
zoe
the key is the feeling in the stomach…it seems to be attached as much to the (momentary un-tethering of our ‘certain’ world, the tonal if you will) for the experience…not overly one more thing that we (clarks) do that the scotts and rogers don’t…they are not equipped to stare at the abyss as clarks tend to be
…frickin yipee
lol
I still don’t get it. Happens all the time .
First of all, congratulations on the normal list. Are you feeling okay…?
1. I see the Glitter Fairy made a trip to YOUR house, too!
4. I wish I could have joined y’all! Sunday mornings don’t work well for me, with church and all, but Friday evenings are USUALLY good. Next time, mkay?
6. Pffft! Freezing my ass off here.
7. I don’t live in a big, square state. Just a flyover state that usually isn’t this FREAKING COLD.
Do you remember seeing the I Love Lucy episode where Lucy bites into the wax fruit at Ricky’s boss’s home?
By your #1 Do I dare hope…?
( “why no, honey but I thought I would try something a little different. kinda exotic, don’t you think?”)
Clark! This is a “normal” list! You didn’t even pull out any of the secret rules! And you put proper things in one thankful point! Are we rubbing off on you?
Funny about the blog names/teacher in a grocery store analogy. It’s true, though. I can’t say the blog names out loud, and I can’t type the real names. It’s like when I type, I’m writing about different people. My fingers just don’t naturally type their real names. And then when I talk about them, I forget you all don’t know their real names, but I have a hard time saying their blog names out loud. For example, when my husband walked into the room and people yelled, COW, it took me a second to realize what they were saying. Does that make sense? Perhaps it just means I have two personalities. OHO! What does the Doctrine say about that? :)
#3 made me actually snort. I love that you added your toaster.
It was a lot of fun to join in last night. Sorry I had to jump out so quickly.
Oh, and I forgot to say how much I enjoyed your That’s not candy, it’s soap story. I would have spit it out immediately, probably with much spitting and fanfare.
LOL :) That’s the most hilarious thing :D Still glad you made it over though, even for a short while. Come again?
yeah… we all totally will want you to join us. once the spirit hits again, I’ll put you on the ‘oh man! can’t you join us??! well…alright, I understand, but if we could change the time…when would that be’ call list.
I love happy surprise mail (who doesn’t)! It doesn’t happen often these days. I think my goal for 2014 should be to send out one a week to someone, anyone, somewhere! That would be a fun challenge to live up to. If I can blog 30 days in a row I sure can manage a card a week, right? :-)
Surviving challenging work weeks is always a plus, walking out the door on the last day is the lightest feeling ever, and it’s easier to look back and say it was “ok” once you’ve gotten thru it!
#10 – Oh how I envy you! We are of course just about to officially begin winter, but we got part of that arctic blast this past week, after two beautiful, balmy days were we were out without sweaters and wearing sandals. I much prefer that, the cold is hard on old achy bones, and the greyness is a bit dreary. The good thing here in Texas is that it doesn’t last, will be warmer again in just a couple days… I can wait it out that long! Great list, Clark! :-)
Love your surprise in the mail…that should definitely be #1. It could, quite possibly, be all 10! :)
I would have done the same thing with the soap..I can almost taste the perfumy flavor (I assume that it had) just thinking about it. And the foamy texture. Am I making you gag yet? Because I am over here gagging it.
Summer in two weeks?
…yeah, the 21st of December the days get longer! (It takes a while to become obvious, but more daylight is always better than less daylight)
and yes, I do recall the smell…should have tipped me off.