Bad dream last night about a nutty yellow cat who was trying to get in through the windows of a car I was riding in. The driver said she had the solution - and shoved me out the door so that the cat would get me! Then she sped off. It was in the most crime-ridden neighborhood of the city, too.

My sister told me this story in an email she just sent me ( Read more... )

mmm.. I was paying my bills yesterday, and there was a little sample card for Stella McCartney's first perfume in one of the department store bills. She has designed one using amber and rose, two of my favorite fragrances on earth (and both used in ancient Egyptian mummification, I might add). I tried it. On the card it smelled a bit on the ( Read more... )

My friend came by to see me this afternoon. He does not give away his sculpture lightly, but much to my amazement, he gave me a little cross from a sculptural installation he'd done years ago in the Johnson Museum at Cornell University. The piece was a dedication for his sister, who died of meningitis from a mosquito bite about ten years ago. I' ( Read more... )

shitty Friday.

That is all.

xx
Mella

As I was lapsing in and out of consciousness, I was alternately scribbling my character motivations & basic flow of events for a story I'm writing, and reading the first part of my advance reading copy of THE DRY SALVAGES, Caitlin R. Kiernan's new book (yet to be published)


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I felt ill yesterday, went home early and passed out for a while. It was the Haggis, which Vicky has already seen. Don't look at this unless you want to see what used to be my fallopian tube. It isn't supposed to look like this:
( ew )

Quoted from greygirlbeast ( Read more... )

An exerpt from "Berryman", one of my favorite poems by W. S. Merwin ( Read more... )

I was at an all-day conference yesterday, in a big old ballroom-type place that was like a piece of the Overlook Hotel ( Read more... )