Heavens, I left a book off of my ridiculous simultaneous reading list the other day: Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee by James Tate. Add the Schuyler to the list and I am in the middle of way too many books. Has anyone read The Route as Briefed? I’m enjoying Tate’s prose, which honestly is so much like his poetry that I don’t discern a heck of a lot of difference.

I failed to waste the day completely, but this is perhaps because Ladybug came home from camping earlier than expected and I was able to goof off with her for a while. I must say that I like being around her more than I like not being around her.

Thieves in Myanmar are stealing womens’ hair. The filchers target women in crowded areas, sneak up, and snip away. This is somewhat awesome. I mean, it isn’t, but it is.

The ginormous hard drive I use for music only is full. That’s 180 GB, or about 180 days of music without a repeat (unless I happen to have two copies of the song because of Greatest Hits collections or soundtracks). Seeing as how I would like to add some more songs to that drive, I suppose I will have to do some paring down. The completist in me, the obsessive collector, cringes at the notion of deleting the half-star (yes, I rate by half-stars) and one-star tracks that belong to full albums, even though I usually skip through them. Who owns the most stinkers in my iTunes library? Poi Dog Pondering has more half-star tracks than any other band, I think They Might Be Giants and Paul McCartney tie for one-star tracks. But I’ve probably only rated about 1/6 of the library. I have grand dreams of one day tagging/rating everything just so. But that is 36,000+ items… so it’s not a weekend project. I had a lot of it rated before I lost all that data in August because of iTunes 7.

Other random stats:

• Five-star tracks: 435
• Four-star tracks: 700
• Three-star tracks: 1646
• Most played: “We Used to Vacation” by the Cold War Kids and “Greeting Card Aisle” by Sarah Harmer, 21
• Last added: “One True Vine” by Wilso” and the new Polyphonic Spree album
• Now playing: “Heart of Gold” by Tori Amos (3 1/2 stars)

I’m not entirely sure what possessed me to do so, but when I woke up this morning, I immediately reached to the bedside table for James Schuyler’s Collected Poems, and I spent a little more than an hour and a half reading. I cannot say why it was that I woke with such a need to read those poems.

However, it now seems quite possible that I won’t do anything else worthwhile today (other than, of course, taking my mother out for Mother’s Day). When I first woke up, I felt thoroughly relieved of this cold that I have been carrying around for more than a week, but as I read, the drip returned, and I now feel as fully congested as before.

I realized this weekend that some of my subscriptions finally ran out. So, I subscribed to one new magazine; I’m still waiting for another to publish its first issue since AWP. I’ll probably need to subscribe to at least one more poetry mag before it’s all said and done. Now taking suggestions in the comments section.