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.

September is time for projects

It's been a long time since I regretted the end of summer, and this one in particular feels like getting back to business.

For example, I have a job! (Digital Media GA for ATLAS/OCE. Oh how librarians love those acronyms)

Also, I'm an Aunt! (in-law, or near enough) Joel's big sis went into labor on Labor Day.

And there are home projects. The first is for many curtains. While the new apartment is large and splendid, all the big windows look out on the Methodist(?) church across the street and on our frat-style neighbors to the right and left.

September is for planning, October is for implementation, I hope.