blithe spirit

The dead, blind wall butts all inquiring heads at last.

sweater’s lot debut!

the best tribute I can give to Redford is about his most romantic movie open.substack.com/pub/restorat...

steve was diagnosed as allergic to "indiana"

Two days until Eagles kickoff; go to the nearest WaWa and stick your hand directly into the cash register, whatever’s in there is yours.

non-romance, romance, #21: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson a sheath of memories and security

summer starts when I watch Jaws and ends when I read The Summer Book in one sitting open.substack.com/pub/restorat...

after six months of living in my apartment, I figured out which outlet connects to the light switch in my room.

Tom Severin! He sucks, we love him. In this week's episode, Beth and Emma try to figure out just how Lisa Kleypas pulls off making us love a book with a landlord hero. The answer involves extended set-pieces, deft pacing and a third act kidnapping, all Kleypas hallmarks.

I think I just picked Michelle and got very attached her! insult to injury was that my brother's similarly randomly chosen favorite olympians (the Czech Republic hockey team) won that year.

I'm liking for Nagano (the best Olympics). Michelle losing was one of the worst things that ever happened to me when I was six.

law school made me a bully and now it is this graduate english program's problem.

I went to my grad school orientation tonight and when prompted to share our names and "something about ourselves," I was the only person to say literally anything. 14/15 people passed!

I recall all the circumstances

in cowboy like me, Taylor Swift opens with "and the tennis court was covered up, with some tent-like thing" and I hate it because I contend that the moment something is "tent-like" it is a tent.

one chat and he said ciao emma goes sports mode

I continue push the bounds of what can be framed as a romance
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I miss you guys. I'm working on a sweater because the Eagles were up 40-6 at the end of the third quarter in the Super Bowl.

Also the fact that Cherelle Parker is not out front and center doing everything in her power to protest the SEPTA cuts basically invalidates the entire point of having a mayor. I understand the direct impact she can have is limited but she should still be incessantly denouncing it.

Journal editor following up on at 8am for something they asked for at 4:30pm is turning me into my worst self!

I just think we should compliment Georgia on doing this thing in a normal way. even if it may be didn’t need to happen!

I understand frustration with the implementation, but Georgia made everyone get RealID starting in 2012 and the state is almost 100% compliant by now.

non-romance, romance, #17: "Pierre Menard, Author of Quixote" by Jorge Luis Borges an impossible undertaking

Don Quixote is a romance is one way and becoming obsessed with Don Quixote is a romance in another. And beating your head against wall because you can't process foreign vowel sounds in also a romance.

Liverpool won the league btw

THE PEOPLE OF PHILADELPHIA RISE UP IT IS TIME FOR ANOTHER REVOLUTION.

we’re approaching a year of Adult Language Learning classes.

this month’s non-romance, romance by the way

I just routinely forget I live here.

how long do I have to live in Philly before I stop thinking “a friend. an ally against the scourge of the Atlanta Braves.” every time I see someone in a Phillies hat.

it’s a Borges short story about a translator who instead of translating Don Quixote lives his life in such a way, based on Cervantes so closely, that he tries to organically write Don Quixote

no, who is that though??

since I am childless, the main way I know I am turning into my mom is how often I explain the plot of Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote to people.