fig. 1: homeless dog. please note the seemingly random punctuation in the parentheses. the copywriter does not work on Sundays.
1. Make coffee.
2. Finish list once coffee is ready.
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(2a, apparently: fall prey to OCD tendencies and vacuum house)3. Brush dog, who is looking rather homeless these days.
4. Type up the three poems--three, that's what sitting in the little library in Mineral Point will net you--written yesterday before the Michael Perry reading/performance.
5. Make something with the two very large sweet potatoes I peeled and diced and now should probably cook.
6. Spend money recklessly and buy tickets to any of the following shows, all of which are stopping in Madison in the spring: Stars, Jens Lenkman, Colin Meloy, Tegan and Sara, Weakerthans, Cloud Cult, BRMC, and the Avett Brothers. We already have our tickets to Josh Ritter in May. Hmm. I don't suppose we're in Kato anymore.
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Today is the first spring daylight savings time in six years that I have not worked in a restaurant and therefore been required to set my clocks forward before bedtime so I don't arrive late to an opening shift. On the other side, maybe it's also the first time in a few years that I haven't maybe taken a pen to a sign that reads ATTENTION SERVER'S SET YOUR CLOCKS FORWARD TONIGHT FOR DAYLIGHT SAVING'S TIME!!!!!!!! and maybe crossed out an errant apostrophe or two.
Long live passive aggressiveness.
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I feel like I've been living in a cave for the last two months and now I'm crawling out. A lot of things helped, but maybe it's just hard to feel that sorry for your life when you have great friends and family and enough line of credit that you can hop a flight on a Friday and find yourself, ten hours later, on top of Stone Mountain overlooking downtown Atlanta. A little perspective always helps.
So thanks, and if any of you need a March jaunt to a warm city, I happen to know a guy who lives in Midtown and has a couch.
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I'm gonna fix up these poems and then go out and buy bagels and daffodils. Merry spring, everyone.
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