Several weeks ago I was thinking about my life and had started think of each period/coinciding decade in a single term. It seemed like an interesting idea to me to coalesce entire spans of time down to a single descriptive word. And when a few came so easily, I figured I could do them all. I never wrote about it here, I only jotted notes down on a ( Read more... )

I think it would have been healthier to have gone drinking yesterday than what transpired. We had lunch at a pizza place, where I had a pepperoni pizza, which is not in itself bad. But, I had several glasses of sweet tea. Then right after, we stopped at this cookie store and each got a massive, frosting covered cookie. I didn't even try the Sparrow ( Read more... )

I'd been itching to watch 'Les Miserables' all week, prompted by my listening to 'Bring Him Home' the other day. The Sparrow when queried expressed little interest in the movie previously. He said he'd seen it around when it came out and shut it off "after ten minutes". I knew that he'd enjoy it now, considering he's "grown up" since then and would ( Read more... )

After a semi-productive bout of cleaning yesterday I finally settled down with the ailing Sparrow on the sofa around 3:00. He'd put on 'The Sweetest Thing', then 'Single White Female', which I had not seen since the 1990s. I caught it about a quarter of the way in. And it is funny now that the characteristics of narcissism are so clear in my brain ( Read more... )

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote ( Read more... )

It has been windy all night and the front and back are covered in leaves. The back patio is like a wind tunnel and there's a pile to the left of the stairs that's been growing taller by feet since yesterday. I really (REALLY) want to get outside with the mower and chop up as much of it as I can, but the wind is supposed to continue till lunchtime ( Read more... )

Sanguinarius - Ray Russell ( Read more... )

Sagittarius - Ray Russell ( Read more... )

Ray Russell - Sardonicus ( Read more... )

I should have worked on my time for the month today, but I didn't. Same old story yet again ( Read more... )