Cat of Drawers

I’d taken out a drawer to rearrange its contents, and heard a yowl when I went to put it back in.

Twofer

Two reasons I want Obama to win the nomination:

  1. Students in the South Bronx are inspired by him
  2. He knows from LGBT issues (despite his political assessment of trans inclusion)

Still, I think he’s paying attention in ways other politicians don’t. & I’ll be honest, the degree of entitlement being expressed by the Clinton campaign – as if she is the only possible nominee – just pisses me off.

The Pregnant Man Show

Thomas Beattie (the pregnant man) and his wife Nancy are on Oprah now.

He is just cute as pie, which is a good thing – charming, pretty articulate, bashful in a perfectly masculine way.

Reading Time

Is there ever enough time for reading? I’m reading about four books at once just now:

I didn’t find much time to read anything other than the essays I’d assigned when I was teaching, so I wonder, if after teaching a while, the grading gets easier & you get in more reading time.

The good thing about writing is that you tend to go on overdrive, and read and write and write and read and it’s like you never get tired. The problem is that you really don’t want to deal with the rest of the world, for dinners with friends or class reunions or whatever on your social calendar bids you.

Not that anyone I know should take that personally.

One of the things that’s beckoning me toward Wisconsin is that there isn’t so much to do, and for a writer approaching middle age, that sounds perfectly perfect. (Now I just need to win that lottery, so I can pull a J.D. Salinger. Except I’ll publish what I’m writing, of course.)