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why eating pudding fresh out of the oven is the best thing on earth // 2002-04-15

yesterday was too much feeling down. some better highlights of my weekend include...

going to the seattle public library book sale with c. he's a "friend of the library" so we got to go to the preview on friday night before the masses got in. boy! that's a lot of books, and they were cheap cheap cheap. $1 for all hardcovers, 75 cents (why is there no easy key for cents on a keyboard? there's a $ sign, but no cents!) for paperbacks, and 50 cents for mass-market paperbacks. i bought: a creepy design book called "old art in new rooms" from about 1960; a book on animation from around the same time period that is equally creepy; "before night falls", reinaldo arenas's memoir (also made into a beautiful movie); a volume of anais nin's diary (because truth is sexier than fiction); a smart little edition of "lady chatterley's lover" from the 50s (hey, what's with all the sex books?); a handful of strange books in german and french with disturbing/cute illustrations, which i'm going to cut up and make paper boxes out of; and a set of flash cards for learning russian, which appear to have been made about 60 years ago, but will make nice gift tags or something like that.

something i discovered at the book sale: the most common book among the piles was "cold mountain". i mean, there were dozens upon dozens of this book! i decided that if i ever wrote a book, i would hate for it to be the kind that everyone in the country reads, but then quickly gets rid of it by donating to the library. that's like being the chuck e. cheese of the literary world.

saturday i made a pudding. not of the jell-o variety, but the kind that those fabulous brits make. it was a lemon custard pudding, and is was so delicious that c and i stood in his kitchen eating it directly out of the hot-from-the-oven dish, and ate the entire thing. note to self: make pudding more often.

went to the grand illusion on saturday night to see ninotchka, a really wonderful ernst lubitsch movie starring greta garbo, who actually laughs in this movie! yay! the perfect movie for me, and my new decidedly anti-angst stance.

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