phonies

reasons why yesterday was a good day:

1. kind of a secret, but i can tell you in a week or so
2. i got to work on our statistics spreadsheet at work. this pleased me so much that i worked straight through my breaks and didn't realize what time it was until 4:50.
3. h2ocean piercing aftercare spray arrived in the mail. now i will not need to get up 20 minutes early to soak my nose in a sea salt solution before i head to work.
4. i got to chat with aaron online for 20 minutes. he is having lots of fun in nepal and india. he is safe and happy.
5. i finished knitting the second sleeve on my owls sweater and attached both sleeves to the body. it is starting to look like an honest-to-goodness sweater at this point.

one not-so-good thing was that i found out that j. d. salinger died on wednesday. he was without question my favorite author. i have all four of his books and have photocopied every single short story he had ever published (aside from "an ocean full of bowling balls" which can only be read with supervision at princeton library). i still have a few fan letters i penned to him as well (unsent). catcher in the rye is his most well known work, but it wasn't my favorite. my favorite is franny and zooey. actually, any of his stories pertaining to the glass family. it drives me crazy to think that there are possibly dozens of unpublished glass stories gathering dust in some new england attic. frustrating. i hope he was able to achieve some form of peace and happiness in his last years. selfishly, i hope that some of his unpublished later works will be made available to the public before i loose my eyesight to old age.