Teeth and jacaranda trees....
May. 15th, 2004 02:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafishHmmph! I had two paragraphs written in my client, left the room for a while, and came back to find that someone had erased them because they wanted to play Snood.
Dentist again today. Three more fillings and the Dr. pronounced me done for a few months. Finally. He's a funny one. Last time I told him to please call me by my name and not call me ma'am, because it makes me feel old. He's older than I am, although we have kids the same age, I think. He complained that Leeanne was two syllables and ma'am was only one, and why was I making things hard on him and why are you reading PC Magazine? You're always so serious, don't you want to read People? One a previous appointment, he dropped Digital Fortress in my lap, telling me I should look it over while I was getting numb - berfore I knew it I'd read a hundred pages. He loaned it to me and told me to send it back with John who had an appointment on Monday. This time he told me he was getting The Da Vinci Code back from someone else he'd loaned it to and I should come in and pick it up on Wednesday.
So now my teeth ache a little. I've never had my front teeth worked on before. That was kind of weird - I was wondering whether anything would show, but apparently not.
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The jacarandas are blooming. Sometime I would like to have a jacaranda tree in my yard. I see them on my way to work as I pass some neighborhoods where they are planted as street trees or some in people's backyards, billows and clouds of lavendar. My father always grouses about all the flowers falling on the pavement and the mess it makes, but to me, it's no worse than leaves. And then they get the loveliest ferny foliage when they're done.
When I was an exchange student at Queensland University, there were several gorgeous jacarandas on campus. They would not only be cover with blooms, but they'd leave a carpet of purple on the ground underneath them. They always bloomed during finals and the other students told us that if a jacaranda flower fell on you, it meant you'd fail a test. We would joke that we'd walk by a tree and the branches would creak.
I remember seeing an end note in Sunset magazine one time, about all the jacaranda trees at Rancho Los Alamitos, a historic park near where I work. They dealt with the fallen blooms by letting the park's Clydesdale horses loose and they would nibble them up like candy. They didn't have to worry about a mess at all. Hmmm, that place is in the same city I work in, but I have no idea where it is. I should go visit at lunch sometime.
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I'm up too late because I've been halfway waiting for John to come in from the garage. He's trying to get VT's anniversary gift box done. He's only got one more coat of wax to put on and he's done. I hope she likes it.
Dentist again today. Three more fillings and the Dr. pronounced me done for a few months. Finally. He's a funny one. Last time I told him to please call me by my name and not call me ma'am, because it makes me feel old. He's older than I am, although we have kids the same age, I think. He complained that Leeanne was two syllables and ma'am was only one, and why was I making things hard on him and why are you reading PC Magazine? You're always so serious, don't you want to read People? One a previous appointment, he dropped Digital Fortress in my lap, telling me I should look it over while I was getting numb - berfore I knew it I'd read a hundred pages. He loaned it to me and told me to send it back with John who had an appointment on Monday. This time he told me he was getting The Da Vinci Code back from someone else he'd loaned it to and I should come in and pick it up on Wednesday.
So now my teeth ache a little. I've never had my front teeth worked on before. That was kind of weird - I was wondering whether anything would show, but apparently not.
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The jacarandas are blooming. Sometime I would like to have a jacaranda tree in my yard. I see them on my way to work as I pass some neighborhoods where they are planted as street trees or some in people's backyards, billows and clouds of lavendar. My father always grouses about all the flowers falling on the pavement and the mess it makes, but to me, it's no worse than leaves. And then they get the loveliest ferny foliage when they're done.
When I was an exchange student at Queensland University, there were several gorgeous jacarandas on campus. They would not only be cover with blooms, but they'd leave a carpet of purple on the ground underneath them. They always bloomed during finals and the other students told us that if a jacaranda flower fell on you, it meant you'd fail a test. We would joke that we'd walk by a tree and the branches would creak.
I remember seeing an end note in Sunset magazine one time, about all the jacaranda trees at Rancho Los Alamitos, a historic park near where I work. They dealt with the fallen blooms by letting the park's Clydesdale horses loose and they would nibble them up like candy. They didn't have to worry about a mess at all. Hmmm, that place is in the same city I work in, but I have no idea where it is. I should go visit at lunch sometime.
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I'm up too late because I've been halfway waiting for John to come in from the garage. He's trying to get VT's anniversary gift box done. He's only got one more coat of wax to put on and he's done. I hope she likes it.
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Date: 2004-05-15 02:12 pm (UTC)How cool that you came to UQ on exchange *g*
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Date: 2004-05-15 08:39 pm (UTC)I loved it in Brisbane and I've always wanted to go back - but that probably won't happen until after I retire, now. I used to live right off campus on Munro St., although I understand the house where I lived has been torn down and it's now apartments.
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Date: 2004-05-15 02:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-15 08:28 pm (UTC)As for parking your car under them, I can't park under the tree we have now (a Moreton Bay fig) because of sap, or rather the little sap-sucking insects that live in it. I really was thinking more of one in the backyard though.
Maybe that's why most of the neighborhoods I see, they have the heck trimmed out of them, so they hardly bloom at all.
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Date: 2004-05-15 08:56 pm (UTC)