Boy, do I ever want to go to that IxDA workshop with Scott McCloud. I normally am unmoved by professional workshops, conferences, mixers, networking, talks, and bondage shows; but for once I want to use my nonwork hours to do something explicitly work related! Actually the reason I don’t usually bother is because with a little acrobatics, I am perfectly capable of making nearly anything I want to do be work-related, and not just in the tax-deductible sense, in the genuine triumph of either logic or self deception.

And more Mark Doty! Wow, that book is making me happy. Looks like he writes online too. Thanks, mister! It’s like being set up on a reconciliation date with the city. We’ve been distant or downright snappish with one another for a while now and, no matter how I try, I can’t seem to stop trash talking New York behind it’s back, but these poems keep grabbing us and making us hold hands again until we stop protesting and get all embarrassed and look up at one another from under our eyelashes.