i see, said the blind man, as he picked up his hammer and saw

hello, hello, here we are, together again.

i would like to announce that i am officially glad i didn't go to graduate school, due to some academic circle rules and the radii thereof. yes, radii. i'd like to do some calculus with you later. go get your graphing calculator. it's okay, i'll wait here.

do you know what i enjoy greatly? writing on napkins in pen. it's sort of exciting, that you're in a place without any paper and receiving information you think is important. but those things are usually so fleeting in their importance, aren't they? there's an flighty sort of immediacy in a paper napkin that isn't present anywhere else.

has anyone seen sylvia? i've heard good bad okay things about it. i like the woman's work, i won't lie about that, but i'm afraid it'll ruin ruin it for me. other things i'm afraid of? the movie the bell jar starring somebody. please don't let it be a shitbrick disaster. please.

i discovered a few red hairs on my head today. it must be sunny summer then. and the faintest signs of a ring tan. ringtan! tanning beds for raccoons and other marsupials.

dictionary.com tells me it can be either racoon or raccoon. who knew? certainly not i. but now we all do. this public service announcement brought to you by the letter c and the number 11.