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Sep 27

the bug

I have the Martha Stewart bug. Yes…it has bitten hard. So hard that I occasionally contemplate making crafts for Halloween- a holiday that completely lacks in fond memories. I read her magazine and watch her show when I can and!- I made myself stop thinking about it today. There's only so much I can handle on the obsession clock. I believe my last obsession was Virginia Woolf (she sweeps through at least once a year) and Lord of the Rings.
Mystery! might be an obsession too but I prefer to think of it as a way of life. Jeff swears that every night I wistfully complain that, “I wish Mystery! was on.” I think he's full of fabrication on that one but who knows- Abby can't cast her vote so it'll have to remain a…mystery.

The move is on and we move on Friday over to Batavia. Nice little Batavia with streetlamps, buses and libraries I can walk to! I can walk to Burger King too which is always a bonus.
It's odd to be moving so close to my old house which we moved from when I was 13. The place I intensely desired to leave. Now I come back, just a block from it, and I am relieved to arrive.

Sep 01

Ssssssaki

So, I got up this morning and in a fit of being inbetween six books and being bored with them all, I decided to peruse the book collection that sits on top of the dresser. There's a lot of books there. About a sixth of them got too high and too precarious and fell over one night. However, there's still a lot left. I'm afraid to think that they are mostly now books of my own choice that I've convinced Jeff to buy here and there at book sales and markdown shops and expensive retail stores. And as he's very bent on spoiling me, I've managed to gather many little books to our home.

Today I got up and after spending a grueling hour looking for a place to rent on the internet, I shambled over and picked up Saki.
Saki is someone I've being dying to read for years. He's very famous for his stories from the view point of a cat (since there's so many writers I've been dying to read for years, it takes me years to get around to picking them up. I have a very long list). The book I have are short stories picked out by Graham Greene- on more stories than just the cat one.
Here's a quote from the first short story:
Duchess: “When I was younger, boys of your age used to be nice and innocent.”
Reginald: “Now we are only nice. One must specialize in these days.”
Saki is something of a Wilde but there's something craftier going on with his words. He's very sneaky- it seems like a fierce intelligence is laying under a lazy exterior.
“Not that I ever indulge in despair about the Future; there always have been men who have gone about despairing of the Future, and when the Future arrives it says nice, superior things about their having acted according to their lights. It is dreadful to think that other people's grandchildren may one day rise and up and call one amiable.
There are moments when one sympathizes with Herod.”
I burst out laughing at that though I'm still confused on what he's exactly saying.
His last known words before blown up in a trench in France? “Put out that bloody cigarette.”