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my new hobby:

eat your heart out, violet.

pull this thread as I walk away.

tonight i looked up from my carrot juice and there on the top shelf: a balled up sweater vest, half finished; stashed away when the pattern around the neck stopped making sense.  i started the other side anyway and knitted the waistband but later noted too many imperfections than could be tolerated, so hand-wound it back up again and so it has sat at my feet: a ball of teal yarn - wool & alpaca - in a metal bowl; tormenting me through four seasons of Breaking Bad when at fidgety moments i chose spider solitaire over the needles.   

“Most people’s lives, what are they but trails of debris?  Each day more debris, more debris… Long, long trails of debris with nothing to clean it all up but, finally death.”

how i crave Tennessee Williams lately.  something about these rainy spring days…  so i went to buy Suddenly, Last Summer just to hear Katharine Hepburn say “debris”.  but forgot to pay with my gift card - alas - so to balance the budget and justify my frivolous spending i decided to forgo coffee for a week.  then i ended up at Starbucks somehow where the barista said “we’re all out of regular coffee, we only have awesome” or some such foolishness.  I didn’t know what she was talking about.     

my poor kitty used up a life, i believe.  he sat perched a storey above the front door on the railing as i stepped out on Monday and after closing the door behind me, a loud thump.  “i feared this day would come” said i to myself as I walked around the corner to look through the window dreading what carnage awaited my eyes.  somewhat dazed he appeared climbing back up the stairs, and feeling much relieved i was on my way. 

krinkle.

thanks Andy.

 i bought a box of brillo pads i don’t need because they came in retro packaging.  

simpler times.

So I’ve taken a month or two off from knitting, my most recent project being this sea star:

Isn’t it cute?  

Today I went back to the microfilms room to look up old family obituaries.  I became distracted by sensational headlines flashing by and began to write them down.  i share some with you from three days in october 1907:  

happy chief goes sadly to wigwam … pretty librarians flock to meeting … cupid cruises lake: visits couple in yacht … insane man shoots two deputy sheriffs … bullet kills wrong man … charge oyster stealing: company arrests bay man … indians strangle brothers … scores are killed in mine … senator figures as hero … negro kills teddy bear … gets no more beer: baby must be abstainer … shoots her husband: is fined one dollar … chinaman fined for gaming … india full of widows … horse steps on old man … bishops admit negroes … sleuths follow red trail … woman foils prisoners: prevents jail delivery … killed with baby in arms … woman accuses step son … horse “attends” school … father carries off baby … aeronauts make trial ascents to test air … two hanged in virginia … negroes kill officer in riot they start … found bleeding on tracks … boy shoots little brother … talk of amputation works marvelous cure … holds mob at bay with his toy pistol … teasure find stirs town … moors clamor for big holy war … football hero turns thief …

chinaman weds white girl … cough betrays two thieves … plan to move across street to dodge taxes … burglars use automobile … hubby sleeps with janitor … forturne inspires murder … drunk steamship’s wine and then beat steward … woman who tried to sell child owns home … chinaware figures in fierce family quarrel … boy avenges colt’s death … seeks food: steals hats … gets rattlesnake in mail … false husband is fugitive … japan not in war mood … man is too fat to drown … college boy kills mate in classroom of school … balloonists take long trip … fire horses run into pole … wars on big pompadours … dismissed by fiancee, he plunges to death: Howe had promised her to give up cigarettes and had broken his word …

conductor kills passenger … typist sets new records … grecian prince to be wed … weird noises startle Washington Blvd … finds wife dead in closet … quarrel at christening … kills herself after marking Bible verse … prodigal returns and is thrown from home … mere boy in drunken fight … his eye on pretty girl: boy drives through funeral procession that he didn’t see … sees balloon: falls dead