von has gone off on another field trip and won't be back till monday. i had a craving for singapore food and went all the way to penang where i had beef rendang and 2 sticks of satay. one hour goes by. felt a bit better but and thought i'd go to widener only there was a tower records on the way back and i went in to look for truls mork recordings. then i came out and an hour had gone by and i say i must do some work now and then i pass curious george goes to wordsworth (yes, that really is the name of the bookshop) and go in and buy a konigsburg and a copy of charlotte's web just because of "deep in the dung and the dark." (e.b. white says he won't go to any movie where charlotte doesn't sing "deep in the dung and the dark" even on a free ticket) and then another hour has gone by. the third. so i trudge to dudley house and look at some old english verbs and read 10 pages of rolvaag's giants in the earth and think to myself that no one should be allowed to put so many ellipses on one page and that the book would be a third shorter when you took them out. and then it was dinner time.