anniversary

[fflo]

This coming Sunday is the 5th anniversary of my working at this joint. Which makes Monday that anniversary observed, I figure.

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[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

Technically they should get you wood or silverware for the 5th, I think. Or is that just if you're married to them? BTW, I don't think my spouse knows the etiquette. Somebody owes me some wood, damn it.

Hey, you should remind your bosses about the wood thing and get them to do your porch!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

ha! well, the hardest parts of the porch project, for this year, are done---namely, the shoring up of the weird frame, and the replacing the planks in the out-of-square square. i just have the two lip pieces to go. have to draw the definitive cut lines on those two boards and hand 'em over to j's dad, who's going to saw along those lines for me, bless his heart. then drill & screw 'em in place with my special tan outdoor screws for treated wood in the handy flop-open drawer cardboard box.

i swear i could get into power tools if i got a chance. i think i'd like to get into power tools, in fact. and do the voicing/"performing" for books on tape. think i could get into that? wonder how one does. (remember that guy i used to see, the voice artist? maybe i could look him up.)

Somebody owes me some wood, damn it.

ha! and i resist going for the cheap joke...

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

and do the voicing/"performing" for books on tape. think i could get into that? wonder how one does

I recall reding recently about a local person who does non-profit recording of articles for the blind--he uses volunteers, but it seems like a way to start. I actually think the article may have been in an Ann Arbor Observer that went out in the recycling this morning.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Hey, good idea. I think I thought of that at one point. There was a radio reading service based at the comm college I worked at in Baltimore I thought of volunteering for. Was working some crazy hours already then, though.

[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

Well, it's been almost 20 years now. No, I can't do it. I was going to make a really dumb joke m'self. But not here in your blog. I think that you'd be good at reading for the blind, BTW. (Good suggestion, peteralway Your voice is quite pleasant to the ear and you can be pretty expressive when you want to be.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Dang, that's nice to hear! I am rather self-conscious about my speaking/reading voice. But I love to read aloud, for some mysterious reason. Or maybe it's as simple as having read to children and loved it and having read to (and been read to by) friends and lovers and loved it.

It has seemed as if there's some mystery cuz I've noticed I'll stick with books on CD in the car long after I'd have tossed the book aside. Case in point, In Her Shoes, to whose prose I say aloud "Implausible" and "Oh, please" and "If that's not a messed-up limited omniscient, I don't know what is," yet I listen on, finding some part of me caring about what happens with characters I don't even like. It's all got something to do with it being read to me.

I think I've probably now had more words read to me on tape/CD than I have live. But there have been enough of the live ones for it to feel sort of interpersonal to me.

Boy, that biography of Neil Armstrong was one shitty piece of work, though. (At least I listened to only selected discs of the dozens it took up.) (And that cuz I was on the road.)