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Yesterday after the poetry reading, Ned introduced me to his mother. She's a fanatical birder, way more fanatical than me, and immediately listed off all the birds she'd seen that day. Man, if I'd seen 35 common snipe that morning, I'd be telling everybody too. I told her about my glaucous gull sighting and described the location where I'd seen it, and she said she'd seen one there several times. Apparently it's a well known glaucous gull. Me and Patrick tried unsuccessfully to convince Ned's wife (who works at the Earthfood Store) to open a Mexican restaurant and a real coffee shop with performance space (as opposed to Starbucks, which has no room for performance and has ugly art). Sara wasn't buying into it somehow...
I've been staying up far too late at night because the Red Sox opened the season on the west coast. Somehow it's not the same when I don't have to hide the radio from my father, and I don't have to get up for school the next day :-) But it's still fun. Pedro Martinez is pitching again tonight. He had 11 strikeouts his first start for the Red Sox.
When I stumbled into Starbucks with a headache this morning, I was not expecting to see Tom & Julie.Tom had told me yesterday that he would not be around on Monday. However, Julie needed something for her Julia Ward Howe presentation or some other project and had dragged Tom downtown and of course he can't bypass Starbucks. So there they were. This was good because I wanted to show Tom the Rosemary Waldrop poem based on Roger Williams' Key into the Language of America, which I just happened to have with me. Julie wants to borrow Doris Kearns Goodwin's Wait Til Next Year, which Charla gave me for Xmas and I said I'd let her have it when I'm done with it - I am taking an inordinately long time to read everything lately. I have only read one chapter of The Windup Bird Chronicles (Haruki Murakami), which my mother gave me for Xmas. I am a third of the way through The Name of War, which Julie also wants to borrow. Books are piling up next to my bed with little markers in them... So while I was talking to Tom & Julie, Ned came in and joined us briefly. We talked some more about his poem - the one he read yesterday - and why he uses a pseudonym for his poetry and his real name for pop songs. If I wrote both pop songs and serious poetry, the pop songs would be the thing that got the fake name.
We had a volunteer meeting at the cat shelter tonight. We're having an epidemic of URI. Almost everybody is in the sick room sneezing bloody snots and other gross stuff. So we had to talk about that and many other things. The next thing I knew I was being volunteered (by Roberta) to put out a monthly volunteer newsletter. At least Stacy gave us pizza and Pepsi this time.
Emily's Geiger counter reading: 5
Pedro Martinez strikeouts tonight: 9 |
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