la la la

LA with Jennifer. sunshine! dresses! LACMA! buses! being really cold! milkshakes! hamburgers! french fries! french toast! japanese deli! friends! bikes! hills! apples! portraits! polaroids! porches! rocking chairs! other chairs! blankets! tequila! oranges! cinnamon! driving back on the 405 blaring third eye blind!

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I hope there's sun in New York because I need to fix the awkward tan lines I have from my desperate attempts to catch some rays here.

 

stay awhile

home home

variations on a theme

nostalgia

"This spy-glass is good for nothing."

As I labor through The Savage Detectives, I've also been doing some decidedly lighter reading, including English as She is Spoke--most recently published by McSweeney's but originally published in 1855. It is an English phrasebook for Portuguese students, written by an earnest translator who was eqipped with a Portuguese-to-French phrasebook, a French-to-English dictionary, and had absolutely no understanding of English. This book is absurd and completely endearing. Also! I finally finished A Better Angel by Chris Adrian. I started the short story collection back in December while I was at FSG, but at some point my closet swallowed it and only spat it back out during post-colloquium cleaning. The stories were alive and immediate and both real and completely unreal in ways unlike anything I've read before.

I think I'm coming down with a slight cold, but I've got manuscripts to proofread and many books to keep me company until I go home next week. I'll be happy as long as my apetite stays; I've finally got time to cook again.

Today I made mushroom ravioli and butternut squash salad:

yes i will

appropriation for inspiration until brain is ready for creative efforts.

all i've been reading at work is self-help and erotica.

hoping to get a bike once the snow melts.