Whoops

BTW: Totally failed on my summer reading list. Like... entirely.
I'm reading Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things right now and it's really excellent. It's part achronological vignettes of a big family--lots told through the vast imaginations of children-- and part larger, political portraiture of civil war. The author has a highly stylized way of verbing nouns and nouning verbs and such and plays with captalization. I like that for the most part but I think the character-driven parts would be more successful if they were more pure and stripped of some of the stylization.

Big Apple/Big Happy

A near-perfect weekend in New York City. The MOMA. I saw my first in-person Klimt. In school I designed a set for an imaginary ballet at Memorial Hall based off of Klimt's Hope I and Hope II that won a prize and I was real proud of it I had no idea it was in the MOMA. Scott and I wandered through the throngs and saw the Matisse and Picasso (nearly a whole floor dedicated to each this season). I was really overwhelmed by how crowded it was, by seeing my first Cezanne since studying Woolf and her colors, etc., but I decided to stick it out and see the 4th floor. So silly of me to not know to expect Kandinsky and The Starry Night etc., etc., then all of a sudden there was Hope II with not-too-big-a-crowd.

Delicious.

What Are the Most Important Things

To remember
When you've just moved into a new house?

I need to be more centered here.
I am, by the way, disgustingly happy.

Bewitching!

My friends are so deeply, candidly, humbly talented.

The Basil Plant

Yesterday Jaki and I bought basil plants.
I am going to kill mine.

EDIT: Yep, it died. Good thing my new house has a fantastic herb garden.