So last night I managed to get to the darkroom to make a Xmas present or two and to pay my hideously late locker rental (not as hideously late as those overdue library books on my shelf, but pretty hideously late all the same), and then get home in time to sit for Cynthia and Fran so that they could have a date, since they will be stuck at the house with the kids until I get home from my vacation and Cynthia gave me the Bambi-eyed thing until I succumbed.

Since I only realized at 5.30p that I was going to have time to do this, and at that time I hadn't even made an appointment for darkroom time, and I had to get home by 8.30 for The Date, I'm faintly astonished that I managed it!

I found a great trick with Bonnie.

I was holding her and she was waving at me (she has just learned to wave and thus feels the need to demonstrate even if she's an inch away from you! Sometimes it turns into a chest whapping.) and she was crawling around and she was clearly not about to go to sleep.

So I decided to pretend that she was sleepy, and acted accordingly. I gave her her bottle, then turned out the lights and started walking and rocking and singing, and I took off my glasses so that she wouldn't be distracted by the desperate need to grab them off my face. (It's the irresistible force meets the immovable object when it comes Bonnie and me and my glasses.)

At first she kept giving me the hairy eyeball ("What are you doing? It's not bed-time!), but after about fifteen minutes, thump, her head just fell onto my chest, and she was asleep!

It was like I hypnotized her. I willed her to sleep!

So, Billy Bragg was on Letterman last night, and he sang my favourite of his new songs, Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key, and I was miserable.

Why was I miserable if I love the song so? Why, because he sings it live as an up-tempo number, and it's so fun and infectious and wonderful that, in the show I saw Friday that I still haven't told you about, he used it as the finale.

And on the album, you see, it's a little folk ballad. And last night on TV he sang it as a little folk ballad. Of course, I understand that if he is promoting the Mermaid Avenue album, he cannot falsely advertise it by playing a rave-up that will be a little folk ballad when they in fact buy the album, but still...

The album version is really good, but only if you have never heard it live...sigh...

I found the most horrible website since Lush.

It's this, o God, book finding service called bibliofind, and I must say go there at your peril. It has seventeen copies of everything you ever wanted. I had to run like the wind to avoid emptying my bank account at them.

I'm screwed. I never claimed to have any will-power! I'm thirty-four years old--too late to develop some now!

Speaking of Lush, it really is a horrible website! Cynthia was getting me my Christmas present last night using my computer, what with the problems she was having with AOL on her own, and between my slow modem, their confusing layout, and the fact that the shopping cart kept emptying itself, it took her 45 minutes!

I really did feel guilty, since it was only because I held my breath until my face turned blue that she was shopping at Lush at all! It's got a rotten catalog, too. This is not a well-marketed store...

But I'm sooooo glad I'm getting something from there!!!!

Today's horoscope:
Home and domestic concerns move to the forefront. Emotional matters keep your attention.

One year ago today:
Those cigarettes must have been as stale as month old bread, because I can't imagine anyone coaxing a pack out of it.

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