ateolf | circumscript

big night on the town last night...got my car washed (kind of) my "My Other Car Is a Pynchon Novel" sticker finally on it...all sparkly and cool and ready for action...though not sparkly...by the way, i'm never getting my car machine washed again...fuck those things that don't fucking work...today Mary Beth and i went on a big adventure around the city...i discovered there's a Downtown Books (as you might imagine, a bookstore downtown) so we went there...it's a used bookstore...and i got some books: The Odyssey by Homer, Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, Notes from the Underground and The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Germinal by Émile Zola, 3 Lives by Gertrude Stein, In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje, Inspector and Other Plays by Nikolai Gogol, and Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino...then all the way to the opposite side of town to target...oh, also while out there we went to Chang's for some wonderful food and bubbletea...hadn't been there in years...uh...¡yúm! hrm...our internet connection's intermittent...let's see if i ever get this posted...hrm...it was 8:58 when i started...we'll see how this goes... ...and that was last night...now it seems to be working again...