In other news: My sis and her (now) fiancé are coming to town tomorrow night. We're going to dinner. I'm really, really glad, though she'll want to see my apartment, which means cleaning. And there won't be time to do cleaning tomorrow, so it'll have to be done tonight. (Did the heavy lifting last night - scrubbing floors, etc.) Which means

Well, big news happened - was it yesterday ( Read more... )

Went to the local Big Chain bookstore to meet J; ran into That Girl in traffic, who kinda brushed me off; read some Harry Potter, but not much because the people kept distracting me; tried to get looked at by anyone but wasn't; went with J to bar, where she was meeting friends; declined her invitation to join; returned home ( Read more... )

Am desperate and rabid to talk to J. She left a message at some point yesterday or last night - dammit, voicemail! - that she has News. I hope it's the job offer she's been after! Am killing time until it'll be decent to call and suggest brunch.

My xgf's birthday today. I'll call.

Listening to the Kreisler "Praeludium and Allegro" and remembering someone I was a long time ago ( Read more... )

You know - this would be a wonderful way to get children to drink milk.

Already today's getting saucy. Was up a bit early this morning - have been oil-lamping around the house, so pretty early last night there just wasn't quite enough light to do anything, so I just went to bed - but had to iron, which didn't even work so well, so I ended up at work at my usual 9:45. Did get some Harry Potter read ( Read more... )

Joy! The goblins returned my messenger bag. They left it for me in the laundry, upstairs. This is good news, because now I have my Django Reinhardt CDs again ( Read more... )

Twice today I've seen the word soapbark. First, this morning, an excerpt in that Ruth Pepper Summers book recommended it for the washing of a lady's hair. Then, just now, as I was coming up with anagrams of Harry Potter terms for MuggleNet, I realized that "Prisoner of Azkaban" can be anagrammed to "Ron in a Soapbark Fez". Coincidence ( Read more... )