I was in Beachwood today to see Dr. Warren.  I spent a few hours after that at Borders looking at books and reading.  I am going to break my bank if I keep going to bookstores.  I obtained Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis, Ada, or Ardour by Vladimir Nabokov, On Formally Undecidable Propositions Of Principia Mathematica And Related Systems by ( Read more... )

I try to avoid doing too many day-recapitulation entries, as they tend to be banal and uninteresting, but I'll make an exception today because I'm in an eloquent mood, and I need something to write about.  I keep meaning to pen the essay that's been swimming around my brain for months (years?), but I have yet actually to do so.  It'll be a polished ( Read more... )

I found myself stranded in a coffee shop today. Early on, I sweltered, the simple saturation of the air enough to fog my glasses every time I left a building. It was in the coffee shop that the sky finally burst, unable to hold its moisture any longer, expelling its contents in the sort of spontaneous summer dump that never lasts very long. I ( Read more... )

Teeth are out.  It's not even close to as bad as people say it is.  I walked in at 8:00 AM, walked out at 9:00 AM, never had to take a pain pill or nap, and I've only had to ice my cheeks a couple of times.  Either I have a higher tolerance for pain than I thought, or I'm unsually resiliant in medical matters (which I have proven to be on many ( Read more... )

Happy belated Halloween, all.  Hope yours was at least as good as mine.  I'll recount my saga, because I believe it makes an interesting story.  Oh, and Pirandello, you got me ( Read more... )