plans for today

My response to someone's question about what people have planned for Easter today:

Nothing. Glorious, blissful nothing. This has been a few weeks of the most stress (some of it good stress) and busyness I can remember, and today my plan is "Serene's only doing things she wants to do".

So right now I'm catching up on Usenet in my birthday suit. In my fridge are decadent foods. I have some books to read. I have a batch of no-knead bread on the counter that I will bake if I feel like it. Life is good.

What does your day look like today?

Quote of the Day

"Until long after it matters, you don't know if you're good enough. You can bet your dreams will be battered, so just go after what you love." -- John Gorka

Plug for paperbackswap.com -- probably US-centric, but I'm not sure

So far, I've received the following books (each one in exchange for one of my unwanted books and the postage to send it to another paperbackswap.com member). It's perfect for me -- I get rid of clutter and get new stuff I want for almost no money. (Apologies to my friends for getting your books for free, but I rush to assure you that when I have money for new books, I go for my friends' books first -- mostly so I can add them to my "Stuff by people we know" bookshelf and be cool-by-association.)

The King's Peace (The King's Peace, Book 1) - Jo Walton (papersky)

Running with Scissors: A Memoir - Augusten Burroughs

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character - Ralph Leighton, Richard P. Feynman

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Julia Alvarez

Brown Girl in the Ring - Nalo Hopkinson

(Also on their way are The Secret Country (by Pamela Dean, AKA pameladean); Such a Pretty Face: Being Fat in America, by Marcia Millman; and How Much for Just the Planet?, by John M. Ford.)

Also, from their companion site, swapacd.com, I've already received a John Gorka CD that's out of print ("Out of the Valley"), and a Christine Lavin disc is on its way. Fun! (The cdswap site charges a fee of something like US$.49 for each disc transaction.)

Craft night tomorrow (Monday), at Serene's in North Oakland

[No local filter, sorry]

Craft night, 6pm until 9 or later. My house. There will be food of some sort, including kettle corn, fresh bread, and some form of protein. There will be knitting and crocheting and who knows what else -- bring your leatherwork or your mending or your half-finished Great American Novel and join us.

This gathering is very friendly toward people who want to quietly work on something rather than interacting too much, too, so if you want to sit quietly on the sofa, feel free. You can even bring your laptop and work on your programming or music; we have extra headphones (*waves to epi_lj*).

There will be coffee, tea, and tap water. If you want to drink something else, you can either bring it or comment here and I'll go grab it when I hit the store in the afternoon.

Send email for directions if you don't already know where my house is. Otherwise, no RSVP necessary.

Next craft nights will be April 23rd and May 14th.