Pictures of Me!
There's a couple sketches of me at the bottom of this page by my friend Chris Baldwin. I don't know how much I like the one on the right, but he's done some other cuter pictures of me (including the one on the left) so I won't complain.
I wrote the introduction to his latest collection. I'll let you know when it's out so you can buy it and see how brilliant I am when illustrated by his drawings! (not to mention seeing his clever drawings and words ...).
I need a tagline
On another topic, I've decided I need a tagline -- all the cool websites seem to have them; even Chris has one, and the bloggies had a whole category for them -- so I want my own. Some ideas so far I've come up with:
Better than butter.
Better than bacon.
Butter, then bacon.
I thought of it first.
If you dream it, no need to make it.
Writing is doing something.
Goats are cute except for their butts; actually, that's true of a lot of animals.
I don't remember names, I can't remember faces, but I never forget a smell.
Well, I'll come back to this, but let me know if you have any ideas. I suppose I could get one that changed every time you reloaded the page. I don't know how that works, of course.
Chinese New Year
It's Chinese New Year today. Year of the Rooster, 4702. Happy New Year!!! It was also (what I at least considered) my unofficial anniversary with Chris. He didn't like the way I proliferated anniversaries, but I like a lot of them! Why the hell not? Tim and I celebrated our post-it note anniversary AND our paperclip anniversary. I think that was one month and two months, respectively. I made Tim a little book out of post its and he made me a paperclip necklace. We were both notaries at the time, and hoped that our children would be notaries, also, or at the very least pink collar. Anyway, I'm feeling kind of maudlin. I'm planning on getting some schezwan/sichuan eggplant and listening repeatedly to "Pomp and Circumstance" as played by a marching band. It was (what I at least considered) our song -- it was the only thing stately that I had to play at midnight, our first Chinese New Year together. If I had a fuller record collection it could have been aud lang sein or some Chinese song. God knows what I'll do on Valentine's day.
Anyway, I have to finish a job application, which is why I'm blogging so much. I'm applying to teach high school history. Maybe I'm crazy, but I'm also broke.
how about "it's the thought that counts"?
That's brilliant. I'd missed this comment before my marathon of updating with Pete last night, but I'll see what I can do to integrate that.