but then too, things you like
Tuesday 26 June 2007 | someone left a cookie
1. Finding out that a lot of treats you already buy (Reed’s Premium Ginger Beer, Wild Oats apricot preserves, Trader Joe’s apple raspberry sauce) do not have any cane sugar in them at all.
2. Rereading and marveling over Lydia Davis’ book of short fiction/prose poems, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant, because for some reason unknown to you, you didn’t already pack it.
3. Wondering, if you wrote a charming note to Lydia Davis, would she write you back?
4a. The delicious bone-soaking heat, which drains you into someone much more relaxed and contented.
4b. Being in the shower, where it’s cool and wet and there is no cat hair.
5. So, okay, your belly and thighs are fatter, but hey, your tits look great!
6. Your freakish ability to figure out how to play complicated songs from Tori Amos’ Boys for Pele after thirty seconds of studying the keyboard, though admittedly you’ve been listening to the album since Fionnula gave it to you in 1996.
7. Watering the neighbors’ plants, because they’ve gone back East for ten days, and snooping around their silent, dark apartment reading book spines and notes on the fridge and whatever’s pinned to the cork bulletin board.
8. That all your succulents have doubled in size and look stunningly healthy, and the pennyroyal actually germinated, and the lavender is thick and fragrant and the hollyhocks are magenta and tall and gorgeous.
9. New purple-striped pajama bottoms from Ross that were $5.99 each (credit card!) and are made of thin, light cotton and cut off at the knee, perfect for warm Arizona nights.
10. Your cat, your boyfriend, your best friend, your mom, your mentor, your therapist, your email friends, your local friends, your long-distance friends, and all the faithless readers, the dozens of people who actually for whatever mysterious and totally acceptable reasons of their own seem to care about all this crazy shit and occasionally even comment on it, too.
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I want to read this book so so so badly! I keep meaning to order it from Amazon.