Advent/Electric Guitar Day/Pie In The Face Day/Freckle Pride Day/John F. Kennedy Day (Massachusetts)
2005-11-27 @ 11:18 p.m.

Have been getting on with my reading for 'S' Paper, although I know I won't end up covering as much as I'd wanted to. (Again, the procrastination that has laid its perverse Midas touch on many things I've done over the past two years.) Just read something in The Hours that rings true: "These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius." Coming up with an acerbic barb might look effortless, but it gets tiresome after a while, especially when people expect it of you. The disappearance of spontaneity is such a killjoy. Do you think we want too much these days? I know I do, even if it's blindingly obvious that I can never have it all. From Love, Etc.: "You could say that it's easier never to get, just to want. Except that a life of wanting and not getting can be incredibly painful."