it's electric

okay so i do have a temper. not only do i spit obscenities through gritted teeth while grappling with our front door (the new door comes in 3 days!! holy crap i'm so excited!), but a few weeks ago when i was wrapping xmas gifts i got into a little spat with our packing-tape gun. annoying little gun, that. i ended it up hurling it away from me in frustration, and it sailed through the air, and by chance it knocked out one of the bulbs in the track-light thing in my office here. the bulb popped out quite neatly - all four lights winked out - and landed behind a bookshelf. the track-light system seems to be like a chain of xmas-tree lights in that if one bulb goes, the whole system goes.

so here - i scan the dead bulbs this morning, as a monument to my flash of fury at an inanimate object. pun intended. art from anger? how's it look?

incidentally, my rage did not last. i was immediately sheepish at having destroyed something with my unnecessary outburst. i retrieved the loosed bulb once it had cooled - it took longer to cool than i did.

anyway. it's saturday. yesterday it was quite stormy, with wind and rain. i made a fire in the woodstove, in the afternoon, when i got back from my errands, and lay on the couch and read about electrical activity in the heart. i think now i know more about that than i even need to.

today the sky is clear. jennifer is town - well, in seattle - to attend a conference and kara and i will head up there too soon, to spend the afternoon with her. i'm looking forward to it. i hope the weather holds, so we can walk around a bit. worst comes to worst, and the rain and nastiness return, we'll stay inside, in her hotel room (in the roosevelt, where kara and i stayed last january when we went to see paul auster - how weird is that?) or in the shops across the street. or something. who knows? either way, we'll be with jennifer so it'll be a good time.