Thanks for the fish

2 day hangover to make you feel old. I don’t feel like throwing up today, but my skin still hurts. That’s ok, though because I’m totally confident that one day I will learn to not treat my body like this. Another snow storm so I “worked from home” today, which mostly invovled going through my old cooking light magazines and ripping out the good recipes. I’m trying to downsize in the office and realized I never looked through them, so maybe if I organize them it will inspire me to try some new things. Though mostly I just ripped out the desserts, as everything else seems to be pasta and shrimp.

Joined Swaptree.com today. It’s a site where you can post stuff you have, like books and cds and then post a list of things you want. Then if someone has what you want, and you have what they want, then you can just ship the stuff to each other. I posted some books and it looks like someone wants “the interpreter of maladies” which I have for “The adventures of huck finn” which I want. So I proposed a trade.

J downloaded a book called “getting unstuck” or something….it’s about buddhism and meditation. I know I’ve said this forever but I really do want to start meditating. regularly. The premise of the book seems to be that you have to sort of go through pain and then once you conquer it, you’re golden. So this pain - let’s call it existential pain - you know that general restlessness, boredeom, angst that sort of underlies all of our lives - we try to get rid of it through booze and food and shopping and drugs and sex - but supposedly if you can conquer that through mindfullness, then that’s preferable. To some extent I buy into that and have been reading stuff like this for years, but I can’t seem to quite get over the hedge and actually do something about it. And I do love booze so. And food. And sex. And shopping. It’s a tough call.

Tonight on netflix I have Capote. I’ve never read anything by him, and don’t know much about him, but I’m always interested in writers lives. Tomorrow I’ll guess I”ll start a diet. Isn’t that a requirement for january 1st?