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September 25, 2005
firsts

Sam and I went to the Friends of the Library book sale today... It was pretty picked over, but at half price-well, it's hard to resist 25 cents a book!

We got a Star Trek, Star Wars, Roget's Thesaurus, A Brief History of Time, Eyewitness Elephant, The Naked Ape, Heathcliff and various other goodies.

I threw down another quarter on White Nights, the first movie I ever saw in a theater! Fresh from my backwoods commune jailbreak, it made a big impression on me. Gregory Hines and Barishnikov, spies, dancing... I don't even remember that much of the plot, but the sparkly excitement of it all still tickles my braincells with the memory of bright, defiant new beginnings. I can't wait to watch it again!

Yesterday I took Sam to the new Top Pot Doughnuts. We've been watching the construction(it's only a few blocks away) for months, laughing as they put in palm trees, the gigantic doughnut on the roof, and the silly top pot signs with the two bakers(?) that look like siamese twins, smiling bravely in spite of sharing a swollen, oddly doughnut-shaped black eye...

It just opened, everything is so shiney and pretty even the ashtrays glisten in the sun. He was so excited, but the multitude of sugar-sprinkled choices simply stunned him. In the end, I chose a raspberry cake and a chocolate sandcastle and we sat out under the ridiculously tall palm trees to savor our booty.

It was glorious, well worth the sugar headache that spiked insistantly in my confused and startled forebrain(I doubt if it even knew what hit it-sugar disappeared from my diet such a long time ago) on the walk home. Somehow, it felt really good to be walking down the street with my son zooming up stone walls and richochetting off of several telephone poles in an ecstatic display of doughnut-enhanced ninja powers.

I wonder if he'll remember it when he grows up? I wonder what his significant 'firsts' will be?

Straight from the Queen's mouth. Sayeth rzan at 01:24 PM
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