23 November 1999

on the page...
Peter Gadol's
The Mystery Roast
...still at it... but I packed three books and three magazines for the trip home... I'm so looking forward to a hot bath and a good book.

in my CD player...
Art of Noise
The Seduction of Claude Debussy
b-ding, b-ding, b-ding... L.A. Michael is this week's winner... he mailed me 6 homemade CDs with creative booklets and inserts... and the music itself is ethereal bliss.

passion...
Late Saturday night, Julia and I stood in the foggy parking lot behind the bookstore talking about books and education and letters and art... it's so wonderful to find a friend passionate about things... you never want to stop talking.

confirmation...
Dan Sonneborn fans from across the globe are writing in to confirm that in fact he IS the coolest guy around. I'm going to trust Molly's scale of coolness... she appears to have a good eye for the random and unique.

in my comment field...
"He cherished the unfulfilled desires, the longings. He loved them for their own sakes and told himself that with fulfillment the best of them would be past."
Thomas Mann

weaknesses and compulsions...
Lately I've noticed things about myself that hadn't really hit me before... like the fact that it takes me forever to translate a catchy mnemonicized phone number into numbers when I'm trying to dial it [exemplified by the fact that it took me over 30 seconds to dial 1-800-NYTIMES this morning]. And I was telling Julia a few days ago about how compulsive I am about only making one trip from the car to my front door... no matter how many grocery bags/ gym bags/ purses/ coffee cups/ CD carrying cases/ binders I have to carry. Now we've made a game of it.

physics fame...
My high school Physics teacher, Nate Van Wey, is the best teacher ever... He gave us plenty of free time in class to play with his sandbox lasers and the gravity on/off switch. He even let us try to masking tape him to his chair once. So when Todd came into work on Monday morning and told me that he heard a story picked up on the AP news about a teacher at Perry High school in Canton, Ohio that almost passed out when he let students duct tape him to the wall, it didn't surprise me that it was the same teacher. He replies to my I-can't-believe-you-did-this email: "I did pass out and over heat and all that neat stuff, but I had some really fantastic dreams while I was out. So, good with the bad and all that."

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