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Sure enough, it’s sunny today and I miss the rain. Everything’s so green though. That’s the odd paradox of winter in San Francisco: it’s cold and rainy, but never so cold that things stop growing, so the rain only makes things greener, pushing out the gold dry grass and replacing it with bright new growth.
I’ve [...]

Actually, I’m rather enjoying the rain. But, gah! has it rained a lot the past few days, that chill-bone, tree-stripping rain particular to November. Today was just so chilly and wet, which made the poem we read for Keats class seem as if it were written for an entirely different season (and to be fair, [...]

Oooh, it’s so cold here — low 60’s according to my widgets! Brian’s usually the more-easily chilled of the two of us, but for some reason he’s decided the house needs airing, so I’m sitting here, all bundled against the cold, while he sits obliviously next to the open door in nothing but a tee [...]

Herr Katze:
I understand that, as the weather gets colder, it is only natural to seek out the body heat of other warm blooded critters. But would you please stop lying on my chest with your face scant centimeters from my face? It’s kind of creeping me out.
thanks,
One Who Feeds You
PS: I would like to get [...]

1. The latest issue of Tin House (esp. the interview with Lynda Barry).
2. “The Red Balloon” on You Tube (Oh, except it was removed for ‘terms of use’ violations. Poo. Nevermind).
3. Dream Angus, by Alexander McCall Smith (thanks for the reccomendation, mom!).
4. Soup with leeks and potatoes in it.
5. Wearing sweaters and generally bundling against [...]

In a comment over on Tricia’s blog earlier today, I mentioned how reluctant I was to move to San Francisco lo these many years ago. Nothing against the city itself, really – at the time I’d never even been to San Francisco, and could hardly imagine what it’d be like (I didn’t even imagine there’d [...]

I really love teaching. It’s without a doubt the hardest thing I’ve ever done (think you know about something? Try preparing lectures on it and then fielding random questions about that and everything else you know for three hours), but it’s also absolutely, positively the most rewarding job I’ve ever had. Think of all the [...]

One of the first things I do when I find myself at someone’s house is start poking through their bookshelves. Partly it’s curiousity about the bookshelf-owner — do they like Jane Austen? Do they own a copy of The Story of O? And part of it is that I’m just plain addicted to reading. I [...]

The Age of the Earth:
First there was the void. And from the void were born the primal things: the earth and the pit below the earth, and gloom to fill the pit, and love (also known as desire), and night.
Night was the world’s first mother. She lay with Gloom and gave birth to Day.
Next [...]

Isn’t it frustrating how, when you’re in a funk, it’s completely impossible to remember what being happy feels like? I know I was happy just last week. Ecstatic, even. Poop.
Brian’s off at his studio. I drove him away with my histronic discontentedness, what with the sighing and the moaning and the flying off the handle [...]