Gratuitous Paragraph About You Wednesday

(I love this meme so much I am stealing it!)

I am not in the mood for Christmas, even though the weather is cooperating by feeling very cold and winterish, with more rain on the way tomorrow. I am in the midst of reading yet another David Rosenfelt book, “Bury the Lead”. I started reading this series because of the golden retrievers he writes about. And found myself enjoying the writing, so I kept reading them. I’ve gotten pretty much the whole series now off of paperbackswap.com. At the moment it is beautiful and sunny out — and 52 degrees, which is damn cold for San Diego, although I’m sure it would feel nice elsewhere about now. I’m having fun finding out about new (to me) music from friends, using Google Wave among other means (I have four wave invites left if anyone wants one!). I would appreciate new music suggestions, since I’m getting a bit tired of Journey, which I’ve been playing a lot lately. I also listen to Foreigner, Dave Koz, David Benoit, Peter White, and about a bazillion other rock and jazz artists. I had some amazing connections with Alzheimer’s patients yesterday while we were doing pet therapy — one man in particular who has never really responded to me before in the last couple of years suddenly seemed to think I was someone he knew, and began getting very interested in me and grabbed my arm and was talking to me and wanting to touch my face. It was intense and strange, but I just kind of went with it. I recently got the haircut so perhaps I somehow reminded him of someone else now. But it’s interesting to see people who are usually very out of it suddenly coming back into touch with the world, even if it isn’t quite our world they are in touch with. It does make me realize how much we really each live in our own world, and how our perception of it changes the way we interact with it. I learn a lot from pet therapy work….