Looking for something to do tomorrow night? I’m reading from Shot Clocks, and Seattle reporter and blogger Jayda Evans will read from, or talk about, her basketball book, before the Lynx game at the Target Center.
Reading/ chat begins at 5:30pm (signs in the lobby should tell you where to go); game at 7pm (no guarantees as to the outcome, except that Seimone Augustus will be fun to watch).
Does anyone want or need:
-An iPod cassette adapter
-A Nokia HS-1C camera headset (review here)
-Nokia-compatible car charger
-Motorola charger model PSM4940C
-Nokia phone charger
-2 Nokia hands-free headsets, marked NL-18
-Tivo Infrared remote adapter for cable box
-512MB ddr RAM
This is part of an ongoing project to get rid of stuff around the house that we don’t need any more. After about a week, I’ll delete this post and give this bag away to Goodwill. Note: the Nokia phones we had were model 3100, but the chargers and such might be compatible with other phones.
We had an old mattress. Well, not super-old, but it had been moved many times and was worse for wear, and we have a newer one for our bed. Since our guest room is now Nathan’s room, we decided to take down the bed frame and toss the mattress. Steve and I strapped it to the luggage rack of the Forester and I set off to the dump, a scant mile or so away. I drove slowly and carefully. Well, not slowly and carefully enough, since the mattress blew off the roof about 1/4 mile from the dump. So, there I was, alone, with a mattress on the street that needed to get back to the roof of my SUV. After some struggling and realizing that I wasn’t going to find some heretofore unknown superhero strength, I decided to put the mattress up on the curb and continue to the dump to see if someone could help me.
I stood in line some ten minutes or so, then I explained my predicament to the nice gal at the desk and told her that I would pay the pickup charge if only someone would come get the mattress off of the side of the road. She looked skeptical, but called the dispatch guy to see what to do. The nice man said that someone would go up to get it, and she needn’t charge me for any more than the normal mattress charge. I paid and set off on my way.
When I passed by the spot on my way home, the mattress was already gone. Either the dump employees were lightning quick, or someone already picked it up and all my worry was for naught.
Of course it involves Nathan. And Nathan’s friend Evie. Captions and layout by Jessie. Go read.
I took Nathan to the Super Target for photos last week, and this is one of the ones I ordered. He was a absolutely adorable and such a charmer! I’m sure the modeling agents will be lined up around the block now…
City Pages’ Tricia Cornell has an astonishing, flattering profile of…me, or possibly of Lynx fandom. I am humbled and grateful.
Two upcoming events featuring… me:
1. LitPac reading at the Kitty Cat Klub this Thursday July 20 at 7:30pm. With me, Thisbe Nissen, Ed Bok Lee, and… Al Franken! It’s a benefit for ActBlue and Colleen Rowley, who is challenging a Republican congressman in suburban-exurban Minnesota. You may know Rowley from her role as an FBI whistleblower.
2. August 1, 5:30pm, Target Center, before the 7pm Lynx vs. Seattle Storm game. I’ll be reading a few poems, talking about my new short book, Shot Clocks, and promoting my new longer book, Parallel Play; Jayda Evans will be talking about her book on the Storm. You’ll need to buy a ticket to the game; if you are a literary person considering attending your first WNBA event, know that you can get a ticket for as little as $10 and that Lynx games almost never sell out (and that Seattle are a fun team to watch).
There may (or may not) be something about me, the Lynx, and Shot Clocks in the next City Pages, or maybe the one after that: nothing’s certain in this world, but it’s worth a look.
UPDATE: and catch Rae Armantrout on poems-dot-com today. It’s way past time “mainstream” readers noticed her powers.
Nathan, Steve, and I went to the Lynx Season Ticket Holders picnic tonight. While the event was a little overwhelming for the little guy, he did enjoy being snuggled by Svetlana. He even tried to see if he could nurse on her, which was kind of funny, but I didn’t get a picture of it.
Other photos of Nathan with Tamika Williams, Nicole Ohlde, Seimone Augustus, and Vanessa Hayden.
Nathan turned six months old yesterday. I can’t quite get my head around that. It seems crazy that it’s been that long, yet equally crazy that it hasn’t been longer.
I was thinking today, “I wish I could bottle up some of his adorable laughs to save for later. Like, when he’s thirteen.”
