"You can dance the dream with your body on!"

Velveteen, your new blog template is SO PRETTY!!! It looks like Spring. It's so springy outside this morning, I can't believe that it's going to snow soon!! That's just bizarre... I've been spending mornings perched in the window of a local coffeehouse and journaling, and I've started recording the time and the temperature along with the date (the bank is right there and they have one of those new-fangled electrical clock-temperature displays). My journal is the coolest thing ever, it's made of paper taken out of a recycling bin and bound together with a cereal box for a cover, and I LOVE IT. I'm never going to buy a new journal again!!!

We've started garden meetings at the co-op, and we'll be outside planting soon, and I can't wait to get muddy! I can't believe how good Brandywine tomatoes are, if you are at all interested in cultivating anything, please plant this tomato variety because it will BLOW YOUR MIND. You can't buy them in stores because the skin splits really easily, which would make them too hard to ship from one place to another, a detail that just makes them all the more special, in my opinion. Also plant basil because you just should, and also it will complement the flavor of the tomatoes perfectly.

The play is going well, and I am holding up o.k. in spite of the difficulties. All the same, I kind of can't wait until it's over. Particularly because the next couple of plays I'm in do not contain any heinous people. And I also got asked to be in a reading for new play festival (even though I didn't audition). So that's a nice compliment, too. Makes me feel fuzzy!

As you may have read, I work in an architect's office. One of the architects that I work for is an older gentleman (we had some troubles getting along at first, but something clicked, because we get along SO well now, it's great), and he was cleaning out his office recently and found a bunch of old architectural magazines from the 60s and 70s that he no longer wanted to save (there were a LOT). I found a bunch of articles about the pre-construction phases of the World Trade Center, with photographs of the cardboard models used to illustrate the idea to investors. So eerie. There was also a bunch of stuff about Marina City in Chicago, which I sent to my old boss (his dad was the mechanical engineer for that project). I also found a bunch of hilarious old images and advertisements which I have wallpapered my small cubicle with. I am mildly obsessed with adverts for old computers, so I spent most of an afternoon "working on getting that stuff recycled!" ("boy! this is taking longer than I expected! I may have to spend the whole afternoon on this one..."). If I knew anything about how to make blog templates, mine would be so TRS 80.