Missive from an empty office.

I don't think they expected anyone to show up as there is no heat here.

It has been brought to my attention that I should be using an eye cream before I go to sleep, to avert getting wrinkly. Ack! Eye cream.

I am reading three books simultaneously:
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates- A tough but incisive novel about a tortured relationship between a husband and wife in the mid fifties suburban hell. It was written in the 60s but it seems it could have been written yesterday. Yates is so clued into the the intricacies of disatisfaction. Compared to The Corrections by Franzen, Yates' story is suprememly more elegant. The Corrections gave me a headache and made feel unhappy where as Revolutionary Road is thought provoking and tragic. I didn't realize how little I liked The Corrections until I began reading Revolutionary Road.
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris- It's what you need to read when you are feeling like the holidays are tougher for you than for anyone else. A good source of perspective and humor. It's little and it fits in your pocket.
Scoring: Under the Covers by Kristin Hardy This is not your ordinary Harlequin romance. It is part of the Blaze series, which means the sex is significantly more explicit than the allusions used in regular romance novels. The best thing about the book is that the story line revolves around this woman, Becca who works as a trainer for the Lowell Weavers, a Single A minor league affiliate for the Red Sox. There is a great review of it at Salon. Much of the story is cringeworthy but it is really amusing.

- posted by Polly @ 11:29 AM |

 
There are only two of us here at work.
It's a little creepy with the battleship sky and the snowy rain falling down.
Creepy-ness aside, I already like this year very much.
Very much.


- posted by Polly @ 9:45 AM |

 
I thought that gasoline evaporated when it hit the air...
I spilled some on my glove as I was filling my gas tank on Sunday and my gloves (along with everything else I own) seem to smell of gasoline.
I really like the smell of gasoline (I know it's weird) but I decided I don't like the smell of stale gasoline that isn't evaporating.

I'd like to go back to bed and sleep until noon and then read some of my book and then finish a few knitting projects.
I'd really like that. Oooh I guess I can do that tommorow. Oh that's exciting.
- posted by Polly @ 9:18 AM |

 
This is amusing.

Death Cab for Cutie is making my day enjoyable. The first track, "The New Year," on Transatlanticism makes me feel resolute. It's a bit of a mournful song.
I haven't felt compelled to to do terribly much recently but I am feeling that fire in the belly that churns right before I go on a tear to change the world. So watch out.

Oh that, and I got a VERY cute wrap around skirt that is navy blue with kelly green piping and has big polkadotted strawberries stitched onto it. If you think it sounds hideous, I guess it does SOUND hideous, but it is quite charming in person.
- posted by Polly @ 10:25 AM |

 
Did you know that the bubbly wine we call Champagne comes from a specific region of France?
If it is a sparkling wine from anywhere else in the world it is merely a sparkling wine NOT a champagne.
I didn't know that. So using Champagne to refer to any bubbly wine is a mistake....who knew? (W.B. Mason, perhaps?)

I feel sorry for these last days of December...It's like the year can't end quickly enough.
We have to hurry up and wait for the start of the next new year.

Why do I wait so long to eat lunch?
It's silly.
Then I can't decide what I am hungry for and I am too grumpy to make smart choices.
You think I'd have figured this out by now. Having eaten approximately 365 x 31 x 3 meals in my time.
- posted by Polly @ 1:52 PM |

 
BRIAN DAUBACH is coming back to Boston!
BRIAN IS COMING HOME!
Holy freakin' shit this is the best Christmas gift I have ever received. He will be at spring training and so will I.
SO great!
Okay so the source for this is the Boston Herald ...but why would they lie about something so important?

Welcome home DAUBER!

- posted by Polly @ 5:58 PM |