by all means i should be snuggled in bed with my sick husband and i feel bad for not being there right now. so i'll make this brief ( Read more... )

so, it looks like our library may soon have a graveyard book poster signed by neil gaiman!

last year i directed my co-worker's attention to a little informal contest that neil gaiman posted on his blog -- because she loves free stuff and will put in the effort to obtain said free stuff, and i figured we had a good chance. here's the criteria:

So ( Read more... )

did my first full day of house/cat sitting and i woke up with the lightest of scratches on the side of my nose. otherwise the kittens are very well behaved. fiametta likes to follow me around and even deigns to sit on my lap at intervals while tika does her own thing and follows curious noises along the floor from the people that live downstairs ( Read more... )

i'm sitting in the living room typing this on the computer that has been ousted from the office while my sister's friend, s---, crashes here for the month of february. he's the very model of the well-behaved houseguest -- almost too much so! he doesn't shut doors quickly and when he turns doorknobs, he does it painfully slow so as to make the ( Read more... )

i've been feeling lightheaded and woozy all day. it could be because i've returned to the harsh reality of working down in the depths of central records where the air is of the recycled kind. it could be that i'm staving off an illness that hasn't struck me for a solid year. my throat is sore. i'm sucking on a zinc throat lozenge. i like the ( Read more... )

we'd kill you by age eight
never get the chance to say
joy to the world
and peace on the earth
forgive them for they know not what they doJesus was born at a good time some 2006-odd years ago ( Read more... )

ye gads! i'm sorry for the dearth in accounts of what's been happening at nutwood central these past few weeks. it's certainly not because i haven't been doing things... it's just that i opted for the paper journal instead. today was highly eventful but i think i'll leave it for the next post when i'll have gathered all the proper photographic ( Read more... )

"She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."

Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find

so these two ladies come to the door today trying to sell their religion in the form of a chat and pamphlets. at 10:30 on a saturday morning. they've come around this time once before. telling them i'm already a christian doesn't help and i didn't have the heart to tell them to ssip off. and i didn't have the heart to tell them to never come ( Read more... )

you gave your body to the lonely
they took your clothes
you gave up a wife and a family
you gave your ghost

to be alone with me
to be alone with me
to be alone with me you went upon a tree

i've never met a man who loved me