I don't go around regretting things that don't happen

Grub Street

I wonder how many underemployed English lit grads have used some derivation of 'Grub Street' in the title of their blogs?

xenial

What can sometimes require an unreal amount of back-and-forth was accomplished in three email messages earlier this week, when The Cat and I made xenial Turkey Day arrangements.

empyreal

One drawback to living in this part of the world, so near a huge city, is that the empyreal vista is never truly dark.

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1. I am thinking … about the nature of best-friendship. Is there any better position to be in? Or any tougher?
2. I am thankful for … flannel sheets, tea & toast, and headache medicine.
3. From the kitchen … I can hear the faint sounds of a plant ("in sick-bay") needing a little TLC, some half-prepared food in the fridge that I should have given some attention this weekend, and the hollow echo of No Bread from my lunch-making options tomorrow, damn it.
4. I am wearing … my gray long-sleeved Kauai, Hawaii t-shirt over another shirt, black-and-white checked flannel PJ pants, white Nike athletic socks, and tan leather shearling (presumably artificial?) slippers
5. I am creating … havoc wherever I roam.
   (Oh, how I wish.)
6. I am going … a little stir-crazy, I have to admit. I've been particularly alone for longer than I'm used to, and while I don't generally mind it, this time around it's causing some unexpected ripples.
7. I am reading … a big ol' stack of books, plus whatever's booted up on the Kindle at the moment. Closest to me are The Unexpected Houseplant and The Best American Poetry 2012.
8. I am hoping … that someone buys the snowplow VERY soon. No, this is not a euphemism.
9. I am hearing … my own fingers on the keyboard and the occasional motorcycle revving that signifies a text message from Mumblito.
10. Around the house … I apparently have a lot of interesting art. No one's mentioned it in so long that I sort of forget about it--but my dinner guest a couple of weeks ago was kind enough to compliment it.
11. One of my favorite things … is a short, unexpected note from a friend.
12. A few plans for the rest of the week … include work, grocery shopping, reading, and prehaps sending the two boxes that have been accumulating things to go southwest and northwest, if I get myself in gear. Oh, and hiding out from the holiday on Wednesday.
13. A picture to share …

    

    H&P, c.1994. They were pretty tight.

[from The Cat, who got it here; the title quotation is by Virgil Thomson]