2003-09-08 - 1:49 p.m. -



Warren Zevon has died.
i guess now he can finally sleep.

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dragging today. was sick all weekend with the �back-to-school-bug�. happened last year too. the kid goes to school & gets exposed to every cold & bug that he was not exposed to over the summer. then he brings it home to share. wee. hopefully this will take care of the cold thing until winter.

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very good reading last night. would have enjoyed it more if i weren�t moving in slow-mo. was great to see Peddler read again. he was a big influence on my reading style early on & you can still see his style in some of my faster poems. (as well as a line or two of his)

was also very good to see more woman in the reading again. hoping that this a trend that continues. going to be making a larger effort to get more woman involved in the reading again. i don�t like it when it gets skewed on way or the other, prefer to keep a balance if i can. have to see what happens over the next few months.

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not much planned for this week. basing a lot of what i�m doing on how quickly this cold goes away. don�t want to overdo it & end up just making myself sicker. rather just take the time to lay low & get better. hoping a few days of taking it easy will do the trick.

God, that sounds almost reasonable. something must be wrong with me ;-)

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time to get back to work. moving slow & not getting as much done as i should. hoping i�ll catch up by friday, but that depends on what the week has in store for me. just have to see what happens.

hope you all have a good night.
more later.

be well.

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We may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.
-President Jimmy Carter