2001-04-16 - 10:23 p.m.

Updates may become irregular in timing (irregular content being a given) for a while, as we've just adopted Curly. We've renamed her Absinthe ("Abby" for short). She's around ten weeks old and part-shepherd. She's smart and beautiful and sweet. We're mad. We're giddy. We're in love.

Some good books in today's library visit.

I have a pretty healthy ego most of the time, but I must confess that it's difficult not to feel like an underachiever when one's college classmates are already winning Pulitzer prizes. I am glad for Dave, but I am also very firmly reminding myself that the poetry winner was cited for his eleventh book, at age 61.

Ordered baby octopus nigiri at Koto tonight, what with the Red Wings on my mind. The experience turned out to be a trifle unnerving - I hadn't realized that this meant whole miniature octopi on those little rice beds. The Beautiful Young Man gave them a quick eye-over and promptly said, "They're both yours."

The puppy's sacked out. The cat's giving me the "aren't you going to pay attention to ME" look. In other words, it's time for smurgles and sleep.