Weekly Life/Travel Writing Stats

You’re reading just one book?

When was the last time you went for a long walk or got some great exercise?

How about the last best meal or dish you had. Mine was the French onion soup at Petit Robert on Polk Street in San Francisco. Really terrific–old friend Gary Kray insisted it was that good and it was–now he’s saying I have to go to Chez Renee on St. Germain in Paris to have beef bourgignon, so I will.

No, I’m not reading just one book. But I didn’t want to mention the other one. Do I really have to? It’s embarrassing. Will Our Love Last - recommended by a marriage counselor after John Lyons asked her what kind of advice he could give me this past summer. He’s considerably worried. I’ve also started Sex Lives of Cannibals and Jeffrey Tayler’s Congo book. But me knowing me, I shouldn’t juggle more than two books if I want to finish them. Besides, we’ll do this again next week.

The last best meal? Thai scallop curry with veggies on rice at Susan’s, or lamb chops and roasted potatoes also at Susan’s. I can’t remember which one we had first, but I liked them both.

Oh yeah, we can do excercise. I’ve been averaging 3 days/week at the gym.

Long walk? 18 miles in one day with Sean Keener in NE Oregon. I did this in August, I think. Here’s the pic.
http://sean.keener.org/2004/11/it_was_summer_n.html

xmas present update…I can’t wait for next week.

Dice mug
http://www.cafepress.com/loosetooth/368568

Hi Jen - Great post! I love reading this type of info. My Question, What’s making you cry? (I’m a sucker for the final few minutes of Cold Case).

My week:

story rejections: 2

editors with incomprehensible replies to work: 1

editors offering to pay me in beer instead of cash: 1

submitted stories not really getting accepted or rejected, just floating in the ether but actually probably have crashed and burned just with a flame too small to be noticed: 12

shots of tequilla: 12

mariachi bands listened to: 12

number of bottles of tequilla accidentally left in SFO bathroom but recovered and returned by helpful police: 2

funniest thing seen: heavy older woman doing the lambada down the aisle of a train with a glass of beer balanced on her head

biggest accomplishment: ironing

most unpleasant cow part eaten: intestines

number of people in cubicles around me who think i’m working: 6

hours ’till weekend: 7

Bill, I mean Tito, I can’t wait to read what you want to send in for the LP humor collection. Send it over. I’ll read it by Monday.

Laura, funny you should ask. I almost cried about ten minutes ago while talking to my best friend from college. I was hurting, he put salt in the wounds. However, his point was made. And then I almost cried again when he told me the most tactless thing I’d ever said to him, and how it changed his life. I narrowly escaped a summer’s creek. It wasn’t going to be a waterfall, but there would be some streamage. I’m definitely not opposed to crying, no way. But I didn’t really feel like it today.

I like crying in movies. Ray got me.