Thursday, August 30, 2007

 

Here is one copy of Applies to Oranges. Woot!

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

 

I am bookbinding! Today I stitched signatures together with tapes, pasted the outermost signatures to keep them from gaping, and attached the mull. I also cut the cover boards. Tomorrow I will cut the spine and cover it. Maybe I will be able to finish the book.

Today I worked and went clothes shopping and grocery shopping, tidied and did laundry and cleaned all my pots and pans. There is a picture of me in the middle of the new Poets & Writers. They interviewed me and other people who have small presses about how not to annoy us. I submitted a picture of me I took myself. I spent awhile earlier this year obsessed with photographing myself. I have stopped -- I think I finally figured out what I look like.

Some of my Abecedarium poems are up now at listenlight. I am excited about the idea of new poems in the aftermath of Applies to Oranges, but I have been lackadaisical so far. I have lots of ideas and not much followthrough, but at least there is no end to the possibilities...

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I just set a (humane) mousetrap, baited with pieces of a peanut butter cup. I know I'm going to catch a mouse (it has been heard skittering about the house in the wee smalls) and that kind of freaks me out.

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I have decided to become a bird. Failing that, a lemon.

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Monday, August 27, 2007

 

I have had a pleasant and useful 36 hours or so. I went to Ryan's yesterday and took a perfect bath. I commend the people who put the hot water pipes into his building. The water gets exactly as hot as you can stand, but no more. No sticking one toe in and jumping out and then trying to figure out how to dilute the too-hot water with just enough cold. And no not-hot-enough water to torment yourself with, so you sit there in the lukewarm tub gradually being poisoned with hate. It was very hot, and because I brought a giant bath bomb with me, it was also rose-scented. Boom!

I drank one of the homebrews (number 25...it was very good) and read a book and visited Ryan's bedroom to look at the weird mobile of metal mosquitos I noticed earlier. Spellcheck wants me to spell "mosquitos" with an "e" but I am not going to because you would not do so in Spanish and all mosquitos are Spanish. To them, all of us are just tapas on the hoof.

I had a productive day at work, with semi-interesting work that I was allowed to perform without interruptions. I cleaned my office. They fixed my AC. I got a very nice lunch and finished re-reading Howl's Moving Castle, which I started in the tub yesterday. Then I walked toward Dupont Circle, got an empanada at Julia's, ice-cream at Larry's and walked over to 17th and across P street and over to 14th and then down to Rhode Island and then back over to 16th. Then I went to the Burlesque reading and visited with Flash and then walked back to Dupont, where a giant brass band was jamming on the pavement and forcing random passersby to take washboards and castanets and join in.

Now I am home and printing the very first finished copy of A2O. Yay!

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