25.I.2003 :::: 20.13

today is virginia woolf's birthday & i had planned that i would read mrs dalloway in one long gulp & then go see the hours with bean, to celebrate, but i forgot until just now to read mrs dalloway & bean has a cold: so we are not going anywhere much less out in the cold to the movies.

instead i am, so help me, making ginger-pink-lentil soup (it will not stay pink. it will be yellow) & sitting here in the quiet house.

virginia, forgive me, send your ghost over for some pink-lentil soup if you like.