Pursuing (Para)normal

 I FOUND ALIENS!!! Picture-perfect PROOF! They look zing-y and friendly, no?

 Multi-colored eggs from beautiful, happy chickens! Everyone should be or know someone who owns chickens.

 Backyard-chicken chicken eggs taste better, too! As Daniel put it, "This reminds me of the good ol' days when you really had to WHACK! an egg to crack it. Nowadays, they practically crack themselves...WEAK!" (Well, he put it more or less that way...)

And they're cuter, too! Whoops, just kidding-these are some adorable sunny-side ups that Christi knit for me! They are teensy-weensy and fit in the palm of your hand! One of her friends is an incredible knitter and is working on her...third or fourth?...book of adorable knitted creations. Here's a link to her blog: 

http://mochimochiland.com/blog/

I just signed up for a (free) GRE test prep workshop. WSU has a masters in communication program and, having done some simple maths to figure out tuition, it seemed nearly affordable! Especially if you get a teacher's [space]ship (I can't spell assistance-ship so there ya go), in which case it is free! Hmmmmm.....That's what came of my long morning of silent I'M-WASTING-MY-LIFE freaking out. 

Time to slow down:

Silence-scented autumn afternoons

I'm wishful-thinking libraries on old estates--

One high-backed leather chair, one looking glass,

The scowling portrait of a lord surpassed,

A cat named Lady Gray, a young girl's ghost,

Cold tea forgotten on a silver tray...

But as you gaze, rich volumes fade away

To dust, expected drudgery, disdain--

I wish it soothed, to reason or explain

Why, modern, we make war with yesterday.

Now copper kettles preen but never sing

And each house has a thousand faceless twins

Here would I  rest, but there's no lingering

When every story ends as it begins.