Exactly like Library School:

Via Hark, a Vagrant

Leave the light on

If I had witchy powers, I'd definitely use them to set my friends up with the funkiest rappers in our suburb:




This weekend was just enough, liveliness and time to sit quietly. Emma and I swapped photo stories of our friends who live in cabins with turkeys and whiskey, or who plunge bare hands into beehives.

I'm partway into many things and feel I'll have the wherewithall for some completion. Whether this means the apartment will ever be fully unpacked or assembled is a different kettle of fish. But groceries: bought, stockings: washed, archives articles: read(ish). Those things are small, but they're enough for now.

Tomorrow and the next day I get to run around between meetings, and feel like I'm part of some grand planning. I need to finish writing Practium descriptions that reach for stimulating terminology: implementation, coordinator, liaison, analysis.

Also, Coffee and Pears

Prize winners for today:

1.) The trees on my street, for combating homesickness with colors rivaling New Hampshire's.

Not pictured: the glorious crunch of stepped-upon leaves.

2.) New Kitten, for finally settling on a name. Allow me to introduce Marlowe:

Pictured: uncharacteristic stillness

Yeah, that's more like it.

Named in the tradition of both the Dr. Faustus author/possible spy/Elizabethan bar brawler and Raymond Chandler's tough guy private eye (represented in film by Humphrey Bogart and Elliott Gould). I firmly believe that cat names should contain multifaceted allusions.


3.) Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Alec Baldwin, who have my sincerest congratulations.

Too tired for exposition:

Stories of Sunday Class

I like asking Joel questions while he's sleeping:

"Honey, what should I wear to LEEP class?"

"...a nice pair of shorts. And...a fruit blazer."

Happy Birthday, Mom