Monday, March 19, 2001 - 06:50 p.m.

Last weekend's totals: four bottles of red wine, a liter of hazelnut sake, countless pots of tea and coffee, at least a dozen drag queens, four games of pool, a very peppery Bloody Mary, two Celtic sourcebooks, a superficial guide to old roses, three slices of pepperoni pizza at 3 a.m., lots of fried oysters and crawfish tails, one string of white beads, two very sharp knives and the head of a white chocolate rubber ducky.

And more, of course - full report later. In the meantime, go read Marvin Bell's "A Man May Change" at Poetry Daily if you want to know how I feel about work, or Slickery's paean to Alan Alda if you'd rather check out what makes me laugh.