one day we'll all be old & i'll be so damn beautiful/meanwhile i'll hide my head here in this paper bag/cuz if i can't see you then you can't see me

Girly Girl browsing the dvds to her Boyfriend:
"Audrey Hepburn was so beautiful. Babe, don't you think she was pretty? Do you think she's pretty?"

That WOULD have been the highlight of my night last night if I hadn't had to drag a footstool to look over the wall separating my department from the computer books to ask a group of kids to use their "inside voices", or at least less with the screaming. I've become that cranky old guy! Fuck me....

my lily is off to D.C. today!! which means I probably won't be leaving the house for anything but work in the next 2.5 months. Because, let's face it kids, I don't have any other friends!! heh. Seriously, I can't believe how much I will miss her & remember that first night we closed together, when she was the new chick who out of nowhere said "i've read your writing!" and I was like, "Really? Cool!" When honestly? I was slightly wigged. Who could have imagined what would occur in the meantime? Who would have thought we'd be heading out on an adventure like living in NYC together? Not I. *sigh* I am your #1 fan, Percy. Have a safe trip.

-rick
in the 3 disc changer: Anna Nalick: WRECK OF THE DAY (which I really, really did not want to like, dammit...)/Oasis: The Lily mix (which I have named MIDNIGHT AT LIAM & NOEL'S)/Nellie McKay: GET AWAY FROM ME (savor the memory!!)

in the bookbag: I'm starting something new today, just not sure which one. Either Dave Eggars: YOU SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY! or Michael Chabon: SUMMERLAND.