rowanf | My day continues

I spent the morning mostly getting the tech reports ready for the annual report. I'm still missing electronic copies from one department. *sigh*

I confess I also spent time printing out stories about Rachel Corrie and the situation in Palestine. I found this excerpt from an email from Rachel Corrie to her parents about why she is there quite moving, esp. in light of her sacrifice. I also printed out this article from CounterPunch about the Iron Wall, a concept I have only heard about recently but which dates back to the 1920's. I really wish the Israeli government would stop being poster children for the aphorism about becoming the thing you hate. Learn to share and play with the other folks living in the land! Get over these colonial ambitions.

Marina came by and we went to Miyake for lunch. That was a lovely interlude. We are still plotting what rose to put on my newly expanded hill of roses. I am wavering between a lovely smelling David Austin Othello or Prospero or a hybrid tea that I *really* wanted back in the early 1970's and had no place to plant. It is called Matador and it is lovely yellow red reverse but very lightly scented. *ponder*

This afternoon I finished off the tech reports (except for the 4-5 from the one department). I am officially not happy about this! I am feeling unsupported.

I posted the info I got at the vigil last night about San Jose City Council voting on an Anti-War Resolution tomorrow.

mactavish pointed me at the

sanjose but it is very small and new so this is probably just whistling in the wind. (I also posted it to

sfbayarea)

And I joined the yahoo mailing list for the Season For Nonviolence. They are sending out daily meditations and I thought I could use having such a thing drop into my box for the next couple of week. There is supposed to be an event on the last day (4/4/03) here in San Jose but I don't have good info about it. It was announced at the vigil last night but the url from the flyer (which I copied off the one

ocean_song got as there weren't enough to go around) doesn't have any info up. *sigh* I have always liked the idea of the Gandhi-King Season For Nonviolence, so I'm glad this finally got me involved even if tardily.

Off to bellydancing!›