who's left and who's leaving

what a beautiful day today.

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Don’t use semicolons. They are trasvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
And I realize some of you may be having trouble deciding whether I am kidding or not. So from now on I will tell you when I’m kidding.
For instance, join the National Guard or the Marines and teach democracy. I’m kidding.

- Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a County)

so…

the watson manor + adam barr = great

celia, i hope you feel better soon.

justin, thanks for adjusting the household.

jon and adam, thanks for cleaning the kitchen.

tim and bill, thanks for cleaning the dining room.

jake and eric, thanks for throwing a great party.

that’s all.

It is my favorite meal of the day. I love lunch foods: sandwiches, soups, crackers, apples. I really wish this country took lunch more seriously. In Spain and Southern Italy they have Siesta. I really wish we had that here.

I won’t lie, I’m not afraid of you like I was last year.
In the black/gray sky our words are dying (so we don’t have to die).
I can feel the cold on your winter face; how our bodies leave us maps inside the snow.
You’re waking up now to clear the stove and close the window.

two more days have happened and so much more has occurred than you ever thought would, or i ever thought would for that matter.

there is possibly some kind of relationship between man (and when i say man i mean man and woman, this is, after all and unfortunately, a phallogocentric society) and nature. like Emerson said, we are supposed to see ourselves in the  blossoms of nature, but maybe we can’t? i can’t really tell.

some people will always be running or feeling that awful guilty feeling you get when you start running for days and get this excellent routine going but flake out slowly and hate yourself. i think avoiding the entire thing is, perhaps, the best strategy.

spending the summer working on recipes and getting rather good doesn’t matter when you return to the messiest kitchen ever and can’t stand standing there let alone wanting to cook something. turkey sandwiches are one thing but something with pumpkin would be good. we make enough fly traps to catch all of the flies in the whole world but it isn’t enough.

we’ve had cats. cats all around these last few days. i don’t really mind cats. in fact, i rather like them. the cat we had has a reward out for her return. i was holding, perhaps, $15 or $20 in my lap and didn’t even know.

tim is listening to neil young now and in the car and quite a bit today. that’s ok. neil young is good. there are lots of things that are good. what else is good in your opinion?