everyone appears to be too busy wassailing to blog.

having decided that ethics and responsible computing is all very well but will and grace would make my life so much better i am downloading a bunch of season 6 and 7 episodes.

did very little today that can be called productive. went to garden street to check on dorothea the cat. fed her and filled up her water bowl and sat with her for a while. she seems to think i am a scratching pad. then went to black ink to get addy her smart women mug, and spent an hour or two in harvard square looking for a bunch of other things to make up a birthday parcel for her. then trekked back to get provisions to last me through the christmas weekend.

bear needs a bath.

all kinds of things begin to reappear in the kitchens at the close of the semester. the spoon that had vanished somewhere in the middle of november reemerged in the other kitchen when i had long given it up for lost. and the mug i had borrowed from margaret, washed it and stuck it in the drying rack, and it had disappeared as soon as my head was turned. and there it was, back in the drying rack, just like it had always been there.

am restless and panicky.