I wrote the most beautiful poem in my sleep last night. In my dream, I was walking with one of my friends on the beach. She was tense about her daughter, and the sky was leaden. We walked to relieve tension, and as I watched her walk ahead of me, I wrote a poem. Naturally, Read more >>

J. and I ended up holed up in the apartment next to the fire eating take-out and playing cribbage by candlelight. It was an enforced vacation from the website I was rushing to get online by Thursday. I needed it badly. The next day, I uploaded the website for my client. He had made several Read more >>

Today, I accidentally fell asleep on my couch at five am. I was supposed to be staying up to finish up a website and some other client work, but sleep won. We’re going through a tough time right now, just many external things going on that are sort of pushing in from all sides. Yet Read more >>

I want to see the movie Big Fish very badly. However, the trailers make me weepy, so I’m a bit leary of going with anyone in case I fall apart. I miss the days, oh, two years ago, when I was one of those people who just never cried. Now, I cry at the drop Read more >>

Muenster is the king of cheeses. Is there anything creamier and more pleasantly cheesy? I had an annoyingly slender friend in high school who would buy it buy the block and scrape off bits with a butter knife until it was devoured. This process usually only took about twenty minutes. Though I saw her repeat Read more >>

I will post this to Utopian.net later, but eKC has given us (Espresso dell’Anatra) ballots for voting in the Golden Bean awards. Why? Because PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY BEEN VOTING FOR US!! Woohoo!! This is encouraging. We need the encouragement, because business is so slow that we will likely have to shut our doors in March Read more >>

I see no reason not to journal a bit everyday (or to continue my verbing of things, even though I’ve lately resolved to improve both my English vocabulary AND grammar) as a sort of motivational tool for myself. So here’s an entry for 01/03/04. I stayed up late on Friday researching low-carb diets and deciding Read more >>

They say whatever you do on New Year’s Day sets the tone for the rest of the year. So far today I have slept in, picked bits of confetti off the floor, cleaned my kitchen, lit incense, spent a half hour doing some administrative work for J.’s writing business, made the best café au lait Read more >>

I woke up at seven this morning, which is the latest I’ve ever woken up on Christmas, and seems to be Adult Christmas Standard time for Anna (me). I’ve set up the fireplace for early morning pyromania, wrapped the last of J.’s gifts, and set out presents that Santa left. In an hour or so, Read more >>

I’ve been neglecting Livejournal lately – really, since my paid subscription ran out. I can’t figure out what amenities I lost when it ran out, but it had the psychological effect of making me feel bad for using it without paying. Business at the cafe has been slow, so I do less drink-making than I Read more >>