Things not to do before bed because they are not relaxing

Things not to do before bed because they are not relaxing

• Read John Scalzi's Whatever blog
• Catch up on email
• Read anything about your alma mater continuing to embarrass itself
• Do anything on Facebook
• Read any comments on anything on the internet
• Look at houses you can't afford or houses in neighborhoods you can't live in
• Add your own thing here

another good thing about working 10 hour days (aside from being employed, which is great)

A good thing about working
10-hour days is that, if it is this

hot outside, by the time you 

leave work, the temperature is 

less dreadful, and you don't 

have to overload the power grid
with your AC quite as intensely.

ways to drown out the shouty people

Ways to drown out the shouty people in your apartment building when you want to relax and enjoy your days off work

• Play opera music loudly (even if all the ones you need to listen to have Kiri Te Kanawa, who is not your favorite soprano)
• Play your favorite fighting anime loudly
• Keep the AC on constantly
• Other suggestions that are actually relaxing?

on ode to back porches (the one I can't write)

I want to write an ode to back porches
because it's not possible for there to
be too many praises for such places,
but I can't remember how to write one,
and I'm too lazy to get up off this
padded porch furniture from which I watch
the grass growing when I open my eyes.

against the dying of the light

There is still a month of summer left

technically, but the longest day is two

months behind us, and I am half-sick

of shadows already, trying not to sulk

or rage against the dying of the light.

A good reunion

My voice today

is still a little bit

hoarse from talking

to people I love

but only see once

a year or even less

frequently, and that

is one way to tell it

was a good reunion.