Yesterday: I listened to a new mix CD while driving to the mall, where I spent rather a lot of money on clothes. (As I quipped later, I grabbed things off the racks, threw them on, and bought them. It was wonderful.) After this, I played with Anastasia, and ate a delicious manicotti dinner cooked by my very talented chef of a fiancé, who then took me to a bookstore where I ordered a book (The Dispossessed by Ursula K. le Guin) that I had been wanting for a while. Then he treated me to some ice cream–I had a cup of ‘banana pudding’ with graham cracker in it.
Today: After a leisurely morning of reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, I expect to pack up my books and computer and notebooks and go with Chera to Panera Bread, where I will order my favorite meal (You Pick Two, bacon turkey bravo sandwich with no tomato, tomato soup, a baguette, and an iced tea). We will discuss books and writing and stuff in general, and then read and write and gaze into space, hopefully for the duration of the afternoon. We may break down and shop for groceries afterwards, at least, we will if we want to eat. But it will be together, and that’s all right. And in the evening we will watch a minimum of one episode of Firefly.
Needless to say, it’s been good to be out of school.
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