The bag of work I brought home for this weekend pulled my neck out. Seriously.

Aw.

gives Kristin a massage

In other news, I just realized that one of the revisions my editor made on my article is factually incorrect. Schyeeah. Also, I'm a better writer than he is (his e-mail to me contained the word "striked," for crying out loud) and I won't have to try hard to impress him. But whatever. It's a college newspaper, and I need a fucking portfolio.

Kristin, I've managed to pinch a nerve in my neck this week so it's generating a whole flurry of sharp, radiating pains down my back and into my shoulder. Also, I seem to have woken up with a mild cold which is aggravating. You get that thing where you sneeze and it aggravates the sore neck, or you roll over in bed to get a tissue and twinge.

Feh. At least I haven't broken out in boils.

I missed all the transgendered wrestler and porn leather accessory talk. As Deb notes, that kind of stuff is regularly on display in SF. We're a deviant and porny town just like the red states think.

Sunil, I expect you'll have multiple big loves in this life, including the woman you'll marry. You're really quite the catch.

JZ looks very cute this morning. She's wearing a vintage dress with visible old fashioned bloomers.

She about swooned when she met Ple in Chicago and Ple was wearing bloomers.

She about swooned when she met Ple in Chicago and Ple was wearing bloomers.

I just packed those away! (I'm packing away clothing I won't be wearing for a while, to free up space in the laundry area.) I am sad that I haven't had a chance to wear them in forever.

I am sad that I haven't had a chance to wear them in forever.

We'll have to arrange a bloomer outing for you two after the arrival Miss Tickybox. Maybe on Bloomsday.

Maybe on Bloomsday.

(Throws first edition of Ulysses at David's head. Metaphorically speaking, of course, since the book is very very valuable)

Sunil, I expect you'll have multiple big loves in this life, including the woman you'll marry. You're really quite the catch.

Aw. I got a Hecliment.

If St. Martins goes for the three-book pitch, I'm in England and Scotland this summer; it's as simple as that. Bath (to research the fifth book) and Edinburgh (to research the sixth book). If they don't, I'm probably not.

I wish I could do this with you. I'd like to see the country by your side. Plus, you have to see Roz.

Hello once again from Bonnie Olde Scotland. Today we headed out to North Berwick, which is the cutest town in the entire world. I want to live there when I am older and have money. Tantallon Castle was so lovely. It was intensely dramatic, on this cliff overlooking the ocean. We were there as the clouds were going out and the light was disappearing, and it was just--another word for intense. I'm kind of braindead right now. And while I don't mean this in a christian way, you could really feel god there. The divine, whatever. I just sat and listened to the waves, watching the clouds roll quickly by.

Livejournal is down? Oh, I want to cry.

Do you think this is what Kermit was singing about?

Ahem. That was Ernie.

INteresting overnight discussion. Mouthwatering foodie discussion this morning. I had planned to be all productive today, but I've been overtaken by a bout of enh. I have scooped AND cleaned the catbox, reprogrammed the phone, microwave and stereo clocks, since some drunk took out a power pole overnight and everything was blinking. And I've done the waterdance: washing, scalding, refilling waterbottles. I also emptied, cleaned and refilled the indoor fountain and cleaned the filter, scrubbed the toilet and bathroom basin, and swept and mopped the floor. I punked on the tub, though. AND the vacuuming and bedchanging. Don' wanna. Want to go watch RotK commentaries and eat popcorn.

They are truly special. I should be writing right now but I am uptight about it. The darn thing isn't jelling and unlike actual Jello, I can't put ice cubes in it and make it.I am starting to regard Chandler's drinking with a new empathy. Raymond Chandler not "Could I *be* anymore obvious?" Chandler Bing. But like Jello, I think there is still good stuff in it.