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2009-04-18, 9:27 a.m.:
Day two or three of the big snow! We are completely snowed in, as is everyone, and it continues to settle. This must be approaching four feet. Lights out all night - I cooked coffee on the Coleman stove. We're online thanks to a backup battery Pedro bought yesterday. Alas, my computer battery is dead.

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2009-04-17, 4:11 p.m.:
A big one to end the winter with:

Power keeps winking on and off, so I'm throwing this up here quickly. My hand is more sprained than ever so I look forward to enforced non-computer time. Got the boys to school today at 8:30, right on time; 45 minutes later came the call to pick them back up. Stupid school system. There were only 5 kids total in the kindergarten class. I felt like a rock star mother. Then I did a huge liquor run as celebration dance. We've got at least 2 1/2 feet and more coming, coming, coming. Maybe four or five feet!

I had been wanting to be snowed in so bad. Either this, or be on a beach. But there are also beaches in my future ...

Reading some Junichiro Tanizaki, of 'The Makioka Sisters' fame. What a great family epic. Next either W&P or Little Dorrit. AND WATCHMEN. Just finishing up 'Black Orchid' right now, Clarissa, 2 books about the Roman Empire, 2 books about the Middle Ages, and a 'teach yourself Latin' book. It's either that or take an intensive class for the month of July. Yay, intensive classes! I love them.

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2009-04-12, 9:36 p.m.:
"Poster where feeling of luxury and retro feeling drift."

--Item description from an eBay auction (a Hiroshige reproduction) I happened upon

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2009-04-05, 2:05 p.m.:
Atticus asked me: Mom, why is your new teapot red and why is you watch red and why are these spoons red and why is the cheese grater red and why are these bowls red and why is the ice cream scooper red?

And I said: Actually, they're carnelian. Haha. No, I didn't.

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2009-04-03, 1:15 p.m.:
Fritz W. has two fantastic poems over at 42 Opus. Go there!

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2009-04-01, 9:21 a.m.:
My reading list is getting longer and longer. Daunting, in fact. What? Is reading going to cut into my 'Amazing Race' viewing time now? ... Half-joking. We know that nothing cuts into my TAR viewing time.

Included are books I've read before but forgotten, read parts of but never finished, meant to read since time immemorial but never got around to it, mildly pretended from time to time to actually have read, and been embarassed for far too long that I have not yet read. Here my confession!

The Enchantress of Florence
The New Book of Forms
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Quicksand
The Penelopiad
Lavinia
The Pickwick Papers
The Master of Go
Parallel Myths
The Beowulf Reader
Japanese Gothic Tales
The Unconsoled
Thomas Cather's Journal of a Voyage to America in 1836
Krypton Nights
History
The Peloponnesian Wars
Charles I (biography)
The Court Wits of the Restoration
A Brief History of Medieval Times
A Brief History of Roman Britain
The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
The Tale of the Heike
Infinite Jest
Preludes and Nocturnes (Sandman)
The Dazzle of Day
Beloved
A Tale of False Fortunes
Quicksilver (whole series)
Anathem
Recreating Japanese Women
The Tin Drum
Tom Jones
Gulliver's Travels
Moby Dick
The House of the Seven Gables
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
The Golden Notebook
Portrait of a Lady
The Return of the Native
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Midnight's Children

There are others: in the garage, in the upstairs, by the bathtub, at bedside.

I dread reading 'Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften' in German. But I think I must try. I did give up halfway through 'Schlafes Bruder' ... must not let that happen again. Oder?

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