marginal

3:50 p.m.

in my cd player...

Splashdown
Redshift EP

Oh so quietly in my office environment.

on the page...

Alexis deTocqueville
Democracy in America

Though I spent my reading time today on this month's Atlantic Monthly cover story about Al Gore's killer debating skills.

impressions...

One thing I find myself wondering over and over when I spend time with children (and it comes to mind because my brother, Jeff, is here with his two children, Ben and Hannah) is what pictures of today will stay with them into adulthood. Will they remember the double rainbow we saw Friday on our walk back from dinner in Cambridge? Will they remember the cool, frightening eyes of the crocodile at the aquarium? Will anything from these days in Boston stick with them in the end?

anxious...

I'm oh-so-anxious to make myself useful at lois. I know it will all come soon enough, but in my best Mandy Patinkin Spanish accent, "I hate waiting."

million dollar day

No emails, no phone calls. Todd and I call that a million dollar day: even if I contacted everyone I knew and offered them a million dollars to contact me, still my mailbox would be empty and my phone line silent.

OFFDSGN 101

Send me ideas for how to decorate the bare walls of my cube. There is so much empty space, I feel paralyzed from the possibilities.