Observations

1) Going to Barnes and Noble by oneself in the evening is very relaxing, even if nothing literary is produced. If nothing else, one can people-listen and think of evil ways to put their flat, nasal, overloud voices declaring their outrageous purchases of the day in a novel. Or two. It amuses us greatly.

2) Individually wrapped American cheese is wrong. And waxy. And yucky to look at if it has been colored orange.

3) It is good to go on walks by oneself. It is also good to use rhyme schemes in poetry. And even better to put music to those poems. Homer did so, as did the author of Beowulf (well, he used alliteration, but it amounts to the same thing at least rhythmically). Because when you're wandering the local cemetary, observing the clouds and walking without your glasses on for long stretches (hoping the weird guy with the - no joke - TWO WEASELS ON LEASHES isn't following you), and no pen or paper is handy and you wouldn't really want to lug it about anyway, it's great to know that you'll be able to remember what you wrote a la the memnonic (sp?) devices of rhyme and music. You also get a really pretty haunting song that can fit somewhere in Gavron - or Graithne - or both.

4) Likewise, not having any sort of working musical device in one's car can lead one to write show tunes. And then sing them incessantly to remember and revise them whilst driving to and fro B&N. With the windows down. And you're still louder than the guy next to you playing rap.

5) New, clean pajamas are good. Even if they require layers for human consumption.

6) Doing the laundry - particularly the taking-out-of-the-dryer-and-folding-them bit - is an act of sacrifice and Purgatory on earth. I have done so thrice today. I hate washcloths.

7) The number of completion, and myself to beddie-bye.

Mood: Odd day, this
Music: The Mask and the Mirror by Loreena McKennit
Book(s): Creed or Chaos? by Dorothy L. Sayers, Powers and Dominions ostensibly based off an unfinished LPW/Harriet novel and the only one on the B&N shelf that a) I haven't read yet and b) is within my price range, and Sword and Sorceress XX because it's tradition, because it'll make me feel not guilty about my writing and because it's full of SHORT stories. Most of which are admittedly poor. But short. Short is good.