For various complicated reasons, there are doughnuts this morning.

I, newly awake, pick one up and examine it closely. "Chocolate frosted doughnuts with colored sprinkles look like they were designed by Milton Glaser," I observe.

"He must have been a Doughnut Glaser," Patrick replies.

I need more coffee.

Yesterday: my first flight with my hands and feet on the controls of the plane, v. cool.

Today: my first third-degree burn, small but distinctly charred.

Am now having a quiet night at home, working on manuscripts while keeping an eye on my hamster's antics. Feels like real life to me.

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The entry box asked me for my interests. I thought about it a while, typed them out, alphabetized the list, and entered it:American rivers, bodging, botany, characteristic repeating phrases, citrus, colors, explosions, expository theory, fairy dusters and acacias, fibonacci numbers, flathead-6 engines, gestures, hamsters, history, informing ( Read more... )

Colors, explosions, speed, characteristic replicating phrases, informing structure, Sacred Harp, history, botany, expository theory, fibonacci numbers, thou my love singing in the wilderness, bodging, Middle English, flathead-6 engines, American rivers, material culture, real economics, fairy dusters and acacias, interesting garbage, flavor ( Read more... )

I'd like this better if it weren't called a journal. It sounds too personal. My manifest willingness to shoot my mouth off about my experiences and opinions evaporates as soon as I'm the nominal topic of conversation.

Bzoink's survey asks you to state your opinions on a list of complex, divisive issues. What's fun is that it forces you to keep your answers short.

What is your stand on.....

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I do not feel Quixotic. You have to put on old ill-fitting armor, and read Tirant lo Blanc, and ride around Spain being severely eccentric. My life is complicated enough already.