"You do not have the right to use this art form to feel inferior" Martin de Maat. I've been trying to quote this quote to somebody every other day for a week now, I think it's time to look up the wording. Oh Martin, I miss you more than any other person I never met.

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 "E sarâ mia vendetta il lor perdono"  - Angelina, the Cinderella character in Rossini's Cinderella

("And my revenge will be forgiveness")

You are born yourself. Your main job is to continue to be yourself come what may.

I ordered some stamps to mail out my book orders. The choices of 58 cent stamps were either a gross heart one for weddings or this:


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Remember the "Me Decade"? We're now in the "iDecade."

Sometimes
a backwards step
is just part
of the dance.

Tonight I met a man at the bus stop who was very nearly unintelligible. I concentrated very hard on every syllable, though, and was able to intellige him - without saying, "pardon?" or "what?" even once. I felt very smart, as if he were a crossword or one of those internet puzzles where you're a little elf pulling levers on a soothing planet ( Read more... )