Chronic

I am so tired. All day every day.

The best part of every day is with Chloe. Watching her read books.

Christian Bale

You might not know it, but I have always reserved a spot in my Top 5 for Christian Bale. I think it began when I saw him as Laurie in Little Women. That, coupled with my admiration for Winona Ryder, explains why I've never been able to get over the fact that bratty AMY (aka Kirsten D.) stole Laurie from Jo. And perhaps this is because from my first viewing of Little Women, I identified with Jo, and in an alternative universe, I believed that Laurie was meant for me. I have replayed the scene above so many times--always slowing down when they kissed, despite the formation of a long, glistening string of saliva between their lips as they pulled away... (I tried to find a still of it, but couldn't. Alas.).

Anyway, all that is beside the point. What I really wanted to share was my latest discovery: The best Facebook fan page ever. See here.

Draft No. 4 and still searching

"You are working on a first draft and small wonder you’re unhappy. If you lack confidence in setting one word after another and sense that you are stuck in a place from which you will never be set free, if you feel sure that you will never make it and were not cut out to do this, if your prose seems stillborn and you completely lack confidence, you must be a writer. If you say you see things differently and describe your efforts positively, if you tell people that you “just love to write,” you may be delusional. How could anyone ever know that something is good before it exists? And unless you can identify what is not succeeding—unless you can see those dark clunky spots that are giving you such a low opinion of your prose as it develops—how are you going to be able to tone it up and make it work?"

--John McPhee

Cookie Monster's real name

is Jenny.