Note: while I will be observing Daylight Saving Time, I refuse to spring forward. I prefer to sneak up on my clock and change the time when it least suspects it.
Sometimes I change it before I go to bed, the evening before. I’m a rebel that way.
The discoveries of love
Nothing says love like finding out your special person is… more than a little special at the February full moon— and still keeping your Valentine’s Day date a few days later.
I guess I could just say “That sure looks nicer!”
TFW someone posts “before and after” sets of pictures of their kitchen renovation, and you’re not sure WHICH set you’re supposed to compliment as looking “so much better!”
Fun with numbers
OK, by now I’m sure you’ve heard that today is 02/02/2020, which is a palindromic date. But I’ll bet no one else has mentioned that in this Leap Day year, this is day 33, with 333 days left.
You’re welcome.
Valentine’s Day (and Lupercalia) planning
In 2020, the February full moon is on Sunday, February 9, so if you have a date for February 14, they’re probably not a werewolf.
Not a lunar werewolf, anyway.
(If YOU’RE the werewolf, you’ve already taken this into account on your calendar.)
Fresh shiny NEW mistakes!
I pride myself on making fresh shiny new mistakes.
I hate making the same mistake twice when there are so many mistakes I haven’t tried yet.
Timing
If your hometown college basketball team wants to break a two game losing streak, a game against the reigning national champions from last season, who already beat them earlier THIS season, seems as good a time as any, right?
There’s nothing more precious than time
Remember this, if you can. There is nothing more precious than time. You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you have not. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end, only in the end it becomes more obvious.
— Herman Wouk, The Cain Mutiny
George Saunders on writing method
“I discovered that I could make a fairly ambitious story via fragments,” he told me, in the interview.
“I didn’t have to have a through line or a plan, didn’t have to know where it was going… If you trimmed all the fat out of a bit, it would start to thrum with meaning—and then, all of a sudden, it would have something it wanted to cause. So there would be these, like, vital bits on the page, not linked to anything yet. And then structure became just linking up those vital bits, looking for the simplest way to connect them.
So, if you cut all the lazy shit out of a story, what’s left will tell you what structure to put in place so that none of those good bits need to be lost. And then you are trying to arrange them so that they are in causal relation to one another.”
~ from “How to Imitate George Saunders” by Benjamin Nugent
If you knew sushi like I know sushi…
The Flaming Wok, Mattydale, New York