A Week's Hindsight

Learned: the word lalochezia, the use of foul language to relieve stress

Saw: Phèdre (decent acting, horrible play)

Heard: Anita O’Day sing You Came a Long Way from St. Louis

Ate: Coq au Vin

Made a (birthday) wish: can’t say what, but it wasn’t for me

Bought: wrinkle cream (see above)

Read: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Skipped: the office Christmas party

Drank: Rioja

Received: the muscular blooms pictured 

Resolved: sit-ups!

Honored: with a Pushcart Prize nomination for my poem ‘Gacela of Ash’

Watched: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (umpteenth time)

Rolled my eyes at: person who followed a limping old man into the supermarket shouting at him for parking in a handicap spot without a sticker

Laughed: about these truths

Cried: yup

Pithiness of the week: Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise (La Rochefaucauld)

I stole this roundup idea from philoku, a German design blog. Resolve to learn German!