Watching

Firefly

Reading

Thomas Pynchon Vineland

Feeling Guilty

I'm on the fifth page of my seven-to-eight-page Herzog term paper and GUESS WHO STILL HAS NOT READ THE LAST FIFTY PAGES OF THE NOVEL.

If you guessed Webster, you're almost right.

Reading

Junot Diaz Drown

Reading

Willa Cather My Antonia
Frank Miller Sin City: The Big Fat Kill

Zotero: simple, sexy, and useful as Luke Skywalker in a Death Star. Unless you're the Emperor, in which case he isn't useful at all.

From the good folks at George Mason University comes Zotero, a Firefox plugin that helps organize and cite sources for academic research. Zotero makes a nice little library out of all your online articles and PDFs, and inputs citations directly into OpenOffice. My Herzog paper has become about twenty times neater, if not as all closer to completion. I ought to read the second half of the book.

R. I. P. my green thumb.

The rosemary died. Jerry offered to bring me a few cuttings of rosemary and other plants from his home garden, in which case I will simply swoon with joy.

Over the summer I began to make ringtones for folks in my phone book who call me often, and I continued this project yesterday.

• J. Savagery--Elton John "The Bitch is Back." I won't explain this, because it isn't necessary.

• C. Frye--The Trashmen "Surfin' Bird."
  

• A. Stew.--The Beatles "Why Don't We Do It In the Road?" Because, why don't we do it in the pool?

• Brittany--M.I.A. "Boyz." One of Britters' favorite musical artists, and our favorite topic of conversation.

• My mother--The Beatles "Your Mother Should Know."

• Michael Dale Munday--"Pokemon Theme."

New ringtones:

• Kate--Pixies "Where Is My Mind?" I thought I would be clever if I used the ringtone she uses for ALL of us (she loves the song so much) for her ringtone on my phone. It was either Pixies or Pearl Jam "Even Flow," which is her ringback tone and the no. 2 reason why I call Kate.

• Mallandizzle--Katy Perry "I Kissed a Girl." Partly because I have a secret hope she'll call me sometime when her boyfriend's around (and gosh wouldn't that be funny) and partly because it's true, and partly also because it's the only song Jayme and I have ever discussed.

• Rich--Dragonforce "Through the Fire and the Flames." And, the least sensical of them all,

• David Loner--Notorious B.I.G. "Big Poppa."

Harriet, Seventeen

A small tossed roiling glee in her tummy, a
small sea, green as pea. Thick with soup.
Deep and sick. The child Catholic in Harriet pleas:
War for Purity!
But her insides yield and lack bitter. Sweet
persimmon. Will she be freed?
Can she shed genes? Her mothers willed
her these, unwilling: your hands, her sticky finale.

Rosemary!

I'm hoping to begin an herb pot. A few weeks ago, I bought some rosemary seeds. I read on the Internet that rosemary is very difficult to germinate, so I soaked the seeds for a few hours and then planted several in a terracotta pot.

Lo and behold! Last night I discovered a seedling had sprouted.

The new challenge is not accidentally killing it.