More about the process? Plus a favorite item or two?
Should file this one under “the writing life.”
Wish list (uno):
This book just looked like fun.
Unrelated “best of”:
Brannagh’s Hamlet and that really nice version of Titus – both on the list. And John Sayles’ Lone Star.
Unrelated fish:
Two by noon, bass & perch. Each was too small for a picture. Although, now that I think about it, that bass looked mighty familiar – none too happy with me, neither.
Unrelated sartorial notation:
The phone hat? It’s not really a hat, it’s a bandana. I’ve got several. I finally opted for a ‘cowboy’ (extra large) model, after years of struggling with ‘do-rags’ – trying to find something that fits. I used to use a phone headset that included a long clip to hold the earpiece and microphone in place. Wednesday was one of those days when I slipped the phone hat on (after I got out of the shower, see next notation), and I never took it off. Never really got a chance. I did sneak off with a sweet and injured Pisces for quick cup of coffee and cookie. But I had to hustle home to answer more phone calls. Never took the phone hat off.
Paranoia:
“Into your heart it will reach,” I think that’s how it goes. I just got up from the toilet. No, I was actually still in a seated position, and I leaned into the shower to turn on the water, so it would heat up the pipe between the water heater and the showerhead- a distance of a mere few feet. I’m imagining, like in a cartoon, the little green water hose with a bulge making its way to the trailer.
“Bam! Bam! Bam!”
A persistent, insistent knock on the front door.
I grab a towel, wrap it around my waist and greet that Sagittarius delivery guy. Again.
I’m not paranoid, but he ONLY knocks when I’m in the shower. Good thing I wasn’t in the shower, or I would have my now-trademarked “drowned Kramer” look.
“Yeah, I usually see you either after a shower or after you’ve been in Barton Springs, huh?”
He grinned. I cursed a blue streak.
(He really is a cool guy and straight arrow – Sagittarius – but he does wait until I’m in the shower. Every time. Been like this for years.)
