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friends, today is a new day. I have ordered a pizza online because I have no cash and am too busy to leave my house. And I am telling you about it on my blog.

(here insert some kind of sound of whimpering, distant chimes and children playing, as if a memory of times before the armageddon, when we could go outside and enjoy the daylight, the breeze, the soft smell of spring approaching)

But mrha ha ha, tomorrow I am going on VACATION! to mexico, to the copper canyon. to...the land of the ancient peyote rite. With my dad! On a train! Isn't that exciting? I have one whole suitcase of books and papers I need to read while on vacation! I hope to take them on the river raft ride with me, my eyes bulging with the psychedelic continuum of water, land, sky and paperwork. yes!

IN OTHER NEWS (Or, related):
Tomorrow I turn in 1/2 of the Da Capo project. It is hard going, trying to balance the respected tradition of the project with what I personally believe to be the core of 'what good music writing is/does.' I made a list of words just in case anyone forces me to defend my choices, and I'm happy to say what I've picked thus far exceeds many of my expectations. The most lovely moment came from reading a piece that seemed obvious enough but just dropped a small bomb in the middle, one that suddenly and without warning caused my to cry: it was one of those moments, one that EMP folk might call "a magic moment." A moment that wasn't about music or writing, it was about cutting through, communicating, getting it right. Dare I say it? That's what I'm looking for. And of course, some snarkiness about how much better things were 10/20/30/40 years ago.