not about the weather (yes it is)

[Marley Magaziner]

I took a snow day today.  My therapist cancelled our 8:30 appointment around 7 saying she couldn’t get to work…I bet she wasn’t too heartbroken about it.  I know I wasn’t. I got back in bed and had one of those dreams where you wake up in the dream… in the first dream I had dogs, then when I woke up in the dream I had dogs and was confused about how my dream came true…then later when I really woke up I was definitely confused. 

We got coffee last night.  According to the Rumpus, Stephen Elliot was also out of coffee.

I did a little work today but I mostly fooled around.  I have trouble focusing when I’m bored and my work is boring.   I tried to make fun of Joanna Newsom’s new album on Twitter and pretty much failed (#ArticleAboutHaveOneOnMe).  When my friend Joanna started playing roller derby she wanted to use the name Joanne Gruesome but didn’t think people would get it.  She went with Holly Crap instead (not as good).

Around 3:30 I gave up on trying to work (not many emails, no one else was working) and Russ and I went to Word to visit Stephanie and the new girl whose name we don’t know and it might be too late to ask.  Another Greenpointer had visited the store earlier and brought hot chocolate and cookies.  We didn’t bring anything.  Then we got orange juice and contact solution and went back to my place.

And then. I did a project for soldoutmuic.com.  Kristin, Humpus-reader who writes for Soldout, and I listened to four SALEM songs and watched a SALEM video at the same time and chatted about the music.  The mythos of the band couldn’t really be removed from our discussion.  Highlights of it will be online soon.

I’m going to a friend’s birthday gathering later. She didn’t come to any of my birthday events (I had 2).  We’ve grown apart lately; I’m torn about going but I’m curious about who else will be there.  Voyeurism wins, basically.

The Daily Humpus isn’t that funny today. #sixwordmemoir

When you get to the end, stop.

Marley

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Today in the Humpus (Note: Humpus website still does not exist):

Thanks for all your advice about renaming the Humpus! <--sarcasm.

Here’s an interview with SALEM frontman John Holland: http://www.buttmagazine.com/?p=2102 I still don’t know what to think of them but their music gives me a depressing sort of nostalgic feeling that reminds me of being a teenager and feeling trapped and aimless.

Update on my personal website.  If the Humpus actually existed you would click on something and it would take you to a page that says “No Progress.”  Truth.

You can still fomspring.me/MarleyMagaziner

I wanted to include a link to an Anne Fadiman essay called Marrying Libraries. It’s kind of adorable and also good. I can’t find it online.  Can you?