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This passed Friday my grandma Mascroft passed away. She was eighty five years old and had a long and eventful life.

I will be attending her funeral viewing and service in Michigan this week, and will not be posting much until Thursday or Friday.

Today is the Feast of the Annunciation, or: “Lady Day.” It marks nine months before Christmas, and commemorates the appearance of the angel Gabriel to Mary in Nazareth. For many years it was the beginning of the new year in England and Ireland, since they regarded anno domini, the “year of our lord,” as begining with Christ’s conception as opposed to his literal birth.

– YESTERDAY – Pretty efficient. No complaints. Might try to actually leave the apartment today. But I wrote long emails to Hallie and to Paul, and later, I went to see my friend Frederic read at a new bookstore in SoHo.

As it turns out, my sister has a blog too:

Gyda’s Song – http://gydassong.blogspot.com/.

It remains to be seen in which direction this one will head off, but it’s off to a fresh and potent start!

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– YESTERDAY – After work I bought dates and index cards and light bulbs. I cam home and decompressed by taking a shower and downloading YTMNDs. I’d gotten some frustrating news during the day and it filled me with peripheral ennui.

Dear Billy,

While I am genuinely touched by the solicitude you’ve exhibited on my behalf, I want to immediately warn you against expending too much energy. First, the effects of your efforts are not informed by your intentions or affections, but by the surrounding circumstances, and these have determined that I shall amount to nothing, shall build nothing, shall ultimately appraise and debase only myself.

In actuality, there is no full interruption in sound throughout almost the first two thirds of the album, although an almost-pause between Planet of the Shapes and Lush 3.1 might serve. For the most part, however, if you don’t watch the track sequence, each song seems to move onto the next in stages; serrated cuts and additions morph the sounds over several minutes.

– YESTERDAY – After work I walked up to the Public Library. It was first time on Fifth Avenue north of about thirtieth street, and was somehow remeniscent of the Magnificent Mile in Chicago. Or perhaps the Magnificent Mile is remeniscent of Fifth Avenue.

Dozens of Protesters Arrested in Belarus.

That’s the New York Times, reporting from Minsk.

While I do believe that, as I’ve heard from many sources, Lukashenko is a dictator refusing to relinquish control, this article illustrates how even a “straightforward” issue is thorny and problematic in the real world.