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November 2
I love having the house to myself, absolutely love it. Right now I'm listening to Irish music and making potato pancakes. Why are these things traditionally a Jewish food? Is the rest of the world that slow, that they haven't realized potato pancakes are the best thing ever? Last summer when Christine and I had a picnic for my birthday I made these. Hey, I think I'll make them for Christmas dinner this year . . . with applesauce. Because having Jewish food for Chrismas would just be fabulous. I took the SAT this morning. It's still sinking in that I can recycle the vocab flashcards, can give the giant book on how to prepare for my sister. The flipping thing has been a fact of life for three or four years now, and I've finally taken it for the last time ever. I took it at Thomas Jefferson high school, where I went for two years because my school was housed on the third floor of their building. It was nice to go back and see it again . . . our new building is nice, but TJ was better in a lot of ways. The bathrooms still had no toilet paper or soap, which was oddly comforting and familiar. Afterwards I went by the Krispy Kreme doughnut drivethrough and got myself a doughnut. Oh, there are no doughnuts like Krispy Kreme. It's one thing I will definitely miss if I ever move north. I've been driving for five months now, but I'd never stopped to buy food for myself before. And I figured taking the SAT for the last time definitely warranted something, so I sat in the parking lot listening to the jazz program on the radio and basking in the glory that is a fresh Krispy Kreme.
Feeling: cozy Wearing: SAT clothes. Ugly but really comfortable. Song in my head: I had "When a Man's in Love" stuck in my head for two and half days, but I finally learned all the words and that got it out. The Irish really can get away with things other people can't - you'd never get a line like "her tongue it did gently glide" in a Scottish or English folksong. Word for today: oh no, have had far too many verbal sections today to be thinking about words Reading: The Fellowship of the Ring Link for the day: Dusk, Dawn, and the Days of the Dead, an excellent essay by Terri Windling. I didn't really do anything with the Day of the Dead this year, but it's a great holiday. November 17 
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