Thanks to a heads up from the aptly named palegreenthings, I just bought tix to see the Mountain Goats on March 7th. YAY!!!
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and I stare at the scrape on the heel of my hand
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged music on January 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
updatia
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2007 | 10 Comments »
+ I have been doing my crosswords all week. Today’s was more difficult than the others, naturally, as it is Thursday, but I still managed to get about 95% right. Along the way, I am figuring out the key to solving these things, which is to step outside the proverbial box and think of the […]
process
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged book on January 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Writing a first draft is telling yourself a story. It’s discovering something, uncovering clues. Once it’s done, you see the whole picture, instead of just a series of disconnected pieces. Knowing this, I think that once my first draft is done, I will be very tempted indeed to start over, to use those 400+ pages […]
sunday night
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books on January 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
After letting dinner digest, Brian and I took a walk tonight. We wanted to go to Canvas, but they were having some weird “ask mister science” event, when we just wanted to sit quietly and read, so we were stuck with the only other neighborhood option: Starbucks. I read a few more chapters of “The […]
zito
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baseball, wah on January 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday I went to Giants Fanfest. It was free, as always, but this time was at the ballpark. Last year it was in a large warehouse across the cove. They should move it back to the warehouse. You see, concourse areas at ballparks are very narrow. And normally, thousands of people aren’t moving around in […]
v.d.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 21, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Made the decision last week not to go out for Valentine’s Day dinner. It’s a bit overwrought and cliched, not to mention the ridiculous prix fixe dinners, the traffic, the “expectations” or whatever. It was fun to take part in the spectacle when we started dating. In fact I recall our first Valentine’s Day, we […]
have to explode
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food on January 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Lunch: an orange; tuna/mayo on seed-covered flatbread crackers. Mmmm. I am supposed to be writing my self-eval for work. I am reminded of bullshitting my way through high school essays. Punching it up with a few ten-dollar words.
feels like 37 degrees
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged music, olympia on January 17, 2007 | 5 Comments »
It’s 42°. Wool coat again today! It is January 17. Fifteen years ago tonight, I attended my first ever real punk rock show. Two bands from Portland, two from Olympia. Heavens to Betsy played first, I think we missed part of their set. Singing about having their periods, which to me, was revolutionary. Riot Grrrl […]
you think you’re some kind of writer?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged book, food on January 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
My apartment is so cold. Especially here in the front bedroom (“office”). The glass is thin, the windowframe is weak, and the heat hangs in a space just beyond the small vent in the wall, usually monopolized by cats. I keep saying how I am moving my desk into the dining room — the only […]
Protected: a partial first draft
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged book on January 15, 2007 | Enter your password to view comments.
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