I'm sick (sinus infection and tension headache), so for dinner today I carved up an apple, ate it, then heated up some chicken broth. When it was done cooking I poured it into a mug, stretched out on my couch, and sipped at it while I finished reading the Golden Compass.

I feel like I'm eight years old.

A week or so ago a picked up a bunch of books at a used book store. One of them was The Stranger, by Albert Camus. It's pretty obvious that at one time or another, a student owned it, as it's filled with underlines and the margins are filled with little notes. It makes for some interesting reading, especially when I run into something like this: ( ( Read more... )

I just wrote a short story! A very short story, but It's far longer than any of the Titles were. I'm very excited. I wrote it in about 45 minutes and it's about an old man in a hospital. It's probably pretty silly. We'll see.

A Quick Question. Could someone maybe suggest to me some modern authors that might be worth reading? (And by modern I mean recent) I don't want to get myself only reading "classics". I don't want to be one of those people who insist that literature peaked in "insert era here". Those people are jerks.

I got a birthday gift from myself today.

It is nearing the anniversary of the date of my birth. Have you the bushels of money? Have you the fatted lamb for the slaughter? Have you a pair of fine pastries to dine upon?

Well, get thee upon it, then. Y'know. If it's not too much trouble. In your own time.

Dress Sensibly ( Read more... )

I Can Walk ( Read more... )

That Day I Dreamt Myself ( Read more... )

Sunset on the Ocean, Sunrise on the Sands ( Read more... )

I'm moving again. At a hotel right now, and I'll be looking at apartments tomorrow. Fun times! More news + Titles as they arrive.

Currently reading:

A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
Falling Man - Don Delillo
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Gibbon

Yo.