Haines His Way

And one for Mahler.  And one for kreplach.  And one for page five.

I also bought some CDs...the 2nd in a series of current Turkish pop songs...and a blind buy of an Arabian pop singer named Ragheb Alama...he had a nice face so I figured even if I ended up not liking his singing I would still enjoy looking at his face on the front cover of the CD...fortunately for me the CD is quite good!

I am quite amazed at how fun the pop music from middle eastern countires is...particularly Turkey, Egypt, and Algeria.

I wish I knew how to take a nap, although I'll probably fall asleep watching a DVD after I eat this here pasta, which is almost but not quite ready.

I did not mean to imply in my previous post that songs written for animated movies (cartoons, features, etc.) were not legitimate songs.

Oh, and in "My Green Fedora," it's "... not Alice, not Annie [as opposed to Mary as I said before], but for Dora..."

There's more to it, and when I remember it, I'll post it.

Gnuvelle cuisine ... first, catch a baby gnu.

Well, as predicted, I ended up taking a two hour nap this afternoon.  Just now I tried to post about the dream I had whilst napping, and realized that it was totally confusing.  The important points - 1.  It was one of those dreams within dreams where eventually you realize you are dreaming 2.  Once I realized I was dreaming, but in something resembling my apartment, the first thing I wanted to do was use the computer to post on HWW and then see if it was somehow there when I woke up for real.  3.  I watched The Net before falling asleep, so the deeper layers of dreams were full of computer viruses and bad men chasing me.  

Conclusion - I wasn't able to make any dream posts.  Kinda sad.

Hope the dream post made some kind of sense...

Last night I made a big pot of one of my favorite macaroni salads...a simple concoction of salad macaroni, cheese cubes, thawed frozen peas, and mayo.  It's very yummy, and it'll be my food for a few days.  I hope I don't gain too much weight with all that pasta, though...

OK, that is totally weird.  That sentence in the middle with the smiley was at the end of the post when I typed it in.  Cue Twilight Zone theme, please.

I've eaten yards of pasta and am quite logey now.  I've been watching disc one of the Johnny Carson highlights, which are absolutely hilarious.  A few of them I've never seen.  The clip format is a bit annoying - there are times you really want more.

My friend Margaret just read the first fifty-five pages (yes, fifty-five pages!) of what we hope will be the new book and she loved them.  As some may remember, she was confused by a good deal of the beginning of Writer's Block when I first gave that to her - the milieu confused her, a lot of what was being talked about confused her, and I made a ton of adjustments because of it, all of which were very helpful.  On the Kritzer books she loved everything, but had really excellent thoughts when things weren't "enough" - when she wanted more of this or more of that.  She has an amazing eye and she's so in tune with the way I write, I just couldn't ask for anyone better to be looking a this early stuff.  She had only a couple of comments where she wanted more description or a bit more dialogue, but other than that she said she couldn't put it down.  And then, I explained where it was going and she was very happy with it.  The "where it's going" of course will be the very hard part to write - but other than knowing the basics, I'm not planning any of it.  With me, the book writes itself.  These first fifty-five pages wrote very fast, but when I began them I only knew the central idea and the major event that had to happen.  Other than that, que sera sera.  Now, I can continue on.  

Hmmmmmmmmm I only have 4 of the DVD's on the list.

Good morning.
I was roused earlier than usual (8:30) by calls from one of the foster families, wondering if I was going to be picking up the kids soon.  Such incredible lack of communication in that system.  I was told that someone was covering my Saturday case since it's the last Saturday, but apparently they couldn't do it.  No one bothered to call any of the families involved.  I don't have the other contact info at home, so I'm helpless.  I feel so badly for these families who are just jerked around through the system.  So the worry for them kept me awake, and now I'm up for awhile.  

I see a nap in my future

I wish it were bright blue around these here parts.  It's more of a dreary gray outside.  

It is very sad the program has been discontinued.  Ann, wishing you blue skies and a speedy recovery.

Hisaka your Buddy was precious.
 
Td will you post an adult photo of Dixie Bell?
 
Jay I’m so glad your Prince has finally arrived.
 
DRLaura-good news on the roof.  I know you are still hurting at the loss of your beloved pets-I swear it never stops.

JMK-continued good health vibes!

Matt-thankfully you are better-food poisoning can be dangerous.

I'm going to attempt to watch two count then two motion pictures on DVD this very evening.

Today we saw "Lion King." I thought it was okay.

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