another one of those 'too much coffee' days

again, all free coffee. i find at meetings related to business-y things, people just hand you coffee. bodum-ed coffee. delicious coffee. even if you have already had your short black-of-god-from-jerry-on-the-way-to-work. hm....

this made my hand shake when opening up the mail and punching holes in things. i did a Lot of hole punching, which is always the sign of a good day. and opening of letters. sign of a not good day. so it balanced out.

my money - tally is continuing on. go me! can you believe it? almost a week has gone by, and i am still managing to keep it up. i am going to be Responisble with my Money, goddamn it. yes. i will. i think-i can. like the little red engine. or the engine that could. whatever. i get them confused.

tomorrow is another fieldtrip, up the coast to see the Factory and meet the Factory people i talk to on the phone all the time. this is exciting because it means i get paid to sit in the car for a few hours. whooooot!

reading tally-
bridegroom was a dog.
strangers
in search of a distant voice
zen flesh, zen bones.

currently reading - byron bio, and village of stone by ziaolu guo.
god, i know there were more. i am really anticipating my tenth book.

i also read two teen novels - 'fix' - a book about teens getting plastic surgery which was didactic in the most suspicious way - it is OK to get plastic surgery as long as you are going to do it for 'yourself' - what the fuck?
and 'the lottery' which was a really interesting book about a school where one student is chosen by some super-secret sub-committee to be the kicking dog for the whole year, ignored by the student body, and picked to do random, horrible tasks or be austrocised further. it was a lot more interesting than i thought it would be.
neither of those books count towards the tally because they were work books, and i read them in around half an hour. they need to be Mine. and i need to not have already read them.

so.... now i recall, there really were only four. what to buy when i get to number ten, eh? there is this incredible book on amazon.com about japanese artist's books that looks fantabulous, and i deeply want. maybe that one? hm.... or should i get a novel? i want to read kafka on the shore really baaadly, and dance dance dance... curious to see if i enjoy the other murakami books as much as wind-up bird and norwegian wood. oh oh oh, there is beauty and sadness as well, though, which i have been meaning to get.

and for everyone's information, there is Now, finally, an australian edition of 'palm-of-the-hand stories,' by kawabata - through palgrave macmillian. this is exciting to me, and probably no one else. but oh well.

the american edition is more attractive, as usually is the case. my temptation to simply order all my books of amazon is overwhelming at times. i would save a significant ammount.