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Half day at Son of World's Best Temp Job -- that is, I'm in the same
office, doing a different thing. It remains to be seen if I'm going to be
ripping my hair out by the end of the week, but right now, I'm being paid
sixteen dollars an hour to make an LJ post, so hey.

The weekend taught me a few things:

1) I am nearly incapable of doing nothing.

2) This is not necessarily a bad thing.

3) Even with half the usual fat, linguini alla carbonara is still pretty
tasty.


When I get home today, I'm going to see how long it takes me to get my
house clean, and then I'm gonna make some sort of weird
pastiche-of-disparate-foods dinner out of the food I have in the house.
Dinner's at 7; join us if you like.

death angels at next week's craft night

Next week's craft will be a ton of fun. We're going to paint death angels
(It's a Day of the Dead craft, and you will love it -- I'll post pictures
of one when I get home).

I've bought three angels so far (they're cheap, but I'm picky about how
they look), and will buy more if more people are thinking of coming to do
this craft. Please let me know if you think there's any chance you'll be
there and want to do this craft. It's a great craft for kids, too.

(Thanks to sogwife for both the idea and the example angel.)

poem

I wrote a little poem as an exercise in poets_challenge:

( Five things you didn't know about water )

Oh, and firecat, we're gonna resume the poetry exercises this
Friday, just so you know.

Still no work at Son of the World's Best Temp Job

I am reading Running With Scissors, the memoir by Augusten Burroughs.
People who say it's similar to David Sedaris's work are, I think, looking
at it in a very superficial way. Not every writer who is wry and gay and
obsessive-compulsive is doing the kind of work Sedaris is doing. I love
Sedaris. I love this book, too. It's an entirely different creature from
Sedaris's work: darker, more literary, more introspective, more personal,
less concerned with comedic value, more concerned with allowing the
grotesque to be funny on its own, and a bit less everyman, which is not
something I had thought about in relationship to Sedaris's work before
today.

to my friend who has decided to live

I care. I have since we met. I'm glad you're stayng around, and if you
need me, I'm here.

To help my time fly

Comment here with something you love about your life and I will write you
a poem. No guarantee on when you'll get it or how much you'll like it, but
I'll do it. No limit on how many I'll write, but you have to comment here
and tell me at least one thing you love about your life (more is great!)
to get your poem.