cat had a goopy eye when i woke up this morning. i grabbed the saline and a q-tip to swab it out before i was fully awake, tripping over the air conditioner that i have set in my bedroom door in the process. i need to get that in the window this weekend. she yowled a bit and turned from floppy, purring furbag to pointy, rigid bowling ball as i ( Read more... )

body damage survey: 8 bug bites, 5 leg bruises, 4 drill bites, 2 splinters, a bruised knuckle from the hammer, a blister, a split finger from guiding screws, and a twinge in my lower back ( Read more... )

good morning, lj. today has not been fun so far. my neck and shoulders are rocks again. this means that there is a headache threading it's way from the base of my skull, up and over my pareital lobes and descending through my temples to stab behind my eyes. i realized that my feet hurt before i left, but instead of making a second pass through the ( Read more... )

today is zombie day. i did my usual wake up at 2:00 to pee and then again around 4:00 for no good reason, unless perhaps i heard the train honking it's way through town. but around five o'clock this morning the cat sat outside my bedroom door and, in some pre-dawn mania, started howling. mmmrroowwwl! mmmrroowwwl! mmmrroowwwl! in a daze, i got up to ( Read more... )

i don't know that i'll be able to ever capture it on film, but there is something about the sunset over lake huron that thrums in my core. a smudge of purple on the horizon where sky meets water. a vibrant red, dusky orange converging on a brilliant white-yellow disk slowly sinking into a hot bath. the clouds above, chubby and pink like attending ( Read more... )

finally finished it. a good nine months after i purchased it and after putting it down for months at a time, but i finished 1Q84. i love the detail with which he describes scenes and people, especially bit people. and i love his graceful use of italics to punctuate his descriptions with internal thoughts. it's the kind of book where i get engaged ( Read more... )

( More excerpts from 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. )

( Excerpt from 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. )

here we go. lead in phrases. gobble de gook. get the thoughts flowing. you can do it brain. non-sequitor lead in and then real thought string begin... now ( Read more... )

it's snowing again. woo. i doesn't affect me. it's just more of the same. the warm days were the oddity not the cold ones ( Read more... )