No maps for these territories

or, reference love (pt. one of many) this, among other things. And YES, I have a copy at work that’s easily accessible — volume one is on my desk as we speak — but that’s at work. I want a home copy Other reference books I would dearly love to someday own, in my fantasy-land [...]

a) Cleaning up every article in Wikipedia:Cleanup [1] b) Sorting through all of the book approval slips on my desk [2] I’d hoped to have the latter done before Christmas; I suppose I ought to tackle the former, too, just to make things interesting. 1. for you non-wikipedians out there, this is just one of [...]

A tragic situation: warm out of the oven oatmeal-raisin-chocolate chip cookies, slightly too sweet and still gooey & crumbly, and no milk. Now I’m not normally milk and cookies obsessed (I don’t normally drink milk at all), but these cookies cry out for it; I had a sudden salivary reaction on the first bite that [...]

Sometimes your standards for perfection have to be small, and precise: a gray, rainy Saturday, Belle and Sebastian on the stereo, cups and cups of strong coffee, writing that is going well: temporary and particular happiness. …… I am never sleeping in again, if my dreams continue to be as awkward and bizarre as they [...]

Tonight I went to a lovely party hosted by Eugene Kim of Blue Oxen Associates, and held at the very cool new Citizen Space in San Francisco. This brainchild of Chris Messina and Tara Hunt offers a place for ten or so “monthly residents” to have desk and a place to work, as well as [...]

HELLO, people, my life is now complete. Sorting through my mail, which tends to pile up, I just realized that the mailman accidentally gave me my next-door neighbor’s Despair, Inc. catalog. Woo! I had no idea they had a printed catalog. This is awesome.

My water heater is making whuffly sounds, the like of which I have never heard before. It sounds like a very small, snuffy-nosed, heavy-breathing mammoth is trapped in there. Should I be concerned? eta: noises stopped. mammoth gone to sleep.