i spent yesterday evening halfheartedly looking through the riverside & wishing i had already read more history plays because i don't want to read them but feel that they are something i should have sitting around in my brain. the exception to this is
richard 3 which in high school i used to proclaim as "the one about my ancestors" (i'm probably of common stock but i like to say it anyway) & which i should probably re-read anyway.
& i spent an hour or so this afternoon ignoring the ringing phone (i could do that, i was the only one at work) & making poems. one poem plus pieces of others. in between poem-efforts i looked through my new favorite book, professional guide to signs + symptoms, which today taught me all kinds of things about cyanosis.
i'm not that intellectual, i just like reference books.
:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:today in the middle of surgeries dr s_______ mentioned the imminent warring & m______ looked up very shocked. she really had no idea that things had come to this, this quickly. despite her general ignorance of foreign policy issues, she acted really personally offended by the beginning of a war, as if it had somehow upset her plans & to boot, no one had consulted her.
(she kept saying, "when did this happen?" the same way you might ask your parents why & when & how they cleaned out your old room in their house & threw out all your stuff in the process.)
:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:i do believe that downstairs they are moving the couch out of the foyer. (i just like to say "foyer," i know strictly speaking it fails to live up to platonic foyer-ness.) i was just thinking when i came home today that i really like the couch sitting there. it seems friendly, gives a pleasant waiting-room-ish quality to the not-a-foyer. there was a little handwritten sign on it saying, "sorry neighbors, just temporary."
:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:also this morning at the corner of spring & high i saw this man standing outside the wendy's there, before it opened, & he looked just like the edge. i really wanted him to be the edge, so that i could go up to him & say, "really now, you all need to stop making more records. part & be done with it."
