I come home tonight with a few new [free] cds. This is what I like about working in a book/music store--all of the free things you can bring home. I won't admit what a lot of the titles are because they sound a lot worse than they really are [and of course I brought some just to see if they really were as awful as they seem--and, NO, I did NOT grab that Amy Grant cd]--but two of them are soundtracks, two of them are spanish something or others [this is how I find a lot of the Spanish music that I have and enjoy], the Donovan Frankenreiter disc that I ALMOST bought about two weeks ago [but had the good, aka brokeasscollegestudent, sense not to purchase], the last mya cd and um... perhaps that is all?

I will admit that I did bring home that Chloe Does Yale book by whatsherface because I simply couldn't leave that on the shelf. I figured people in the house would enjoy that and it turned out that I was as right as always: it hasn't left Amber's hands yet. I figure that once she's done with it, Arnaub can give it to his little sister since she's going out there. Might give her a few worthy tips about campus, knamean??


Reason #632834 to leave Michigan: it fucking snowed today and even stuck. There is slush everywhere right now. Fucking bullshit, if you ask me. Makes me dream that much harder.


So, at the all store meeting--it was hard to focus. Being there for one billion years and thinking about the paper that I must come home and write--difficult, to say the least.

I get to meet Pattie Griffin later this week. Got her cd for free, so I need to give that a listen before then. Laurie Notaro is coming in the following week, so I need to make sure I'm working that one. Maybe it should be my plan to shake hands and not gush about how I liked her first book [butmaybenotthesecondoneasmuch,ksorrythanksforasking].



Graduation is in less than a week. It all depends on a few classes--we'll see. I think one spring class is in order, regardless, but it is a good class and I am not really regretting that. We shall see!



What I would rather do instead of study:

• Have a [well-made] tequila sunrise
• Sit on the beach somewhere nice
• Watch a good movie [something with a little action, maybe intellectual if need be]
• Alphabetise my cds
• Daydream and stare at the ceiling--wondering at the glory of a perfectly lit room
• Dance until the sun comes up [but only if it's with someone who actually understand what rhythm feels like in their bones]
• Take a long walk somewhere warm with the pooch
• Get another piercing
• Then a tattoo.

The one thing I wouldn't want to do:

• Clean my room.