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Wednesday, May 19, 2004

 
4:24 PM: return to eden [#] [0]

tuscon was fun. i met sven's mom, grandparents & his graduating brother -- shield albright, father to zoe, keeper of the most official collection of neil gaiman materials & bibliography in existence and moderator for the neil gaiman message board! i wish i had the picture to show you of me squealing and flapping my arms in the leather jacket neil auctioned off a few years ago and which is now in shield's possession. he also has original art (and another leather jacket, hmm...) from jill thompson. he also says edward gorey was slated to do the illustrations for coraline until he died. meh!

we visited my grandmother & aunts in phoenix, much to everyone's surprise. we did not go to nogales, but we did go to sabino canyon, which was better. and we went to the kitt peak observatory! and dark arts: assassins and an odd all-ages dance recital based on mental illnesses.

when we got home (thanks for the ride & "dew stop," jalex & aaron!), there was a lovely loud thunderstorm (and jalex said she saw lightning!). michaelmas and i went to burgerville to celebrate my first year of not working for csusm (at least, until exhaustion made my tongue too thick to speak without an enormous amount of concentration). i picked up amelia yesterday from kitty cat condos, which i feel compelled to mention again because i was really impressed by that place! they have about the same rates as other boarders, but it's cat-only, quiet, very clean and knowledgeable, comfortable, accessible, and they take digital pix of your cat during her time in the "condo" to take home with you! (unsurprisingly, amelia's pictures are of her sleeping.) she's now safely contained in the laundry room again, and the search continues for someone to adopt her.

in what-am-i-doing-right-now news, i'm working on the pieces for meadling's wedding. i'm taking the poem they're reading at the wedding (e.e. cummings' "somewhere i have never travelled") and breaking each line, more or less, into separate pieces, about 20 in all. as far as i know at this point, they'll be placed on the tables, so i am prominently numbering the pieces in line order so that you're encouraged to mingle to read the whole poem. :) to facilitate this, sven has set me up a small art space in the living room. sweet boy! but now i have no further excuses... :D