Find a couple of pages you wrote last July that were pretty good but never went anywhere. Jigger them until they suit what you want to do now. Get to a point where you need a word to describe the top of someone's bald head. Spend ten minutes trying to think of that c-word that means head. Contemplate calling your husband at work on a busy Friday night to ask him, but decide against it. Get stuck on "carapace" even though you know that's not it. Finally remember that it's "cranium." Look up "cranium" in the dictionary to see if it really refers to the whole head or just the actual skull bone. Decide that it's not quite the right word. Finally settle on "dome" because of its New Orleans associations. Try to move on. Quit fucking around on the Internet.

I was going to call this entry "The Post-K Writing Process," but then I realized that it's not all that different from what I used to do.

This afternoon I'll attend a rally for my neighborhood, which appeared on the Bring New Orleans Back commission's map as one of the potential areas to be turned into "green space," which in many cases would involve using eminent domain to pay people far less than the worth of their homes. As with any good New Orleans rally, the organizer has encouraged us to bring cocktails. I suppose I'll go grab a daiquiri, but now that Cajun Eggnog season is over, I have no idea what flavor to get.



Some modifications courtesy of o_lucky_man. * is my own modification. Most of the underlined books are ones I know little or nothing about, but if someone gives me a book, I'll always at least consider reading it. Most of the italicized books are ones I own but haven't read yet.

Have read
Intend to read
Won't read
might consider reading if somebody gave it to me
started but never finished
*finished but hated

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) - J.K. Rowling
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold*
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter 5) - J.K. Rowling
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1) - J.K. Rowling
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) - J.K. Rowling
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card Fuck Orson Scott Card with a fucking jackhammer. With poison on it.
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert