today has been a good day. my mother woke up at one am to find me still awake, composing an email to autry (which i haven't sent) and sent me to bed. she then woke me up at eight to pick up in front of the housekeepers, after which i went back to bed and woke up again at one pm. hurrah hurrah. went out and did errands in town with mum and got a good sandwich at eric's delicafe and a cup of chai at starbucks (the only coffee place close to where we were) and it was beautiful and sunny and cloudy and gloomy and generally bipolar like that and we drove along listening to allette brooks and drinking chai and the sun kept breaking through. and we went to goodwill and i spent fifteen bucks on these kickass black boots i found that fit good ol bigfoot me perfectly. they make me taller than my mother. i've been listening to music onmy computer and i love how it will play 'gravel' by ani difranco and then jump straight to 'love me do' by the beatles. i gave my sister another nausicaa pronunciation lesson (she's getting better) and then discovered she didn't know where nausicaa came from. so of course i had to go get my copy of the odyssey from my room and read her most of book six. i hadn't read the odyssey since last year and it made me so happy, the familiar verse rolling off my tongue as i told the story of odysseus and nausicaa. yay. i'm sitting here grinning like an idiot wearing my new (to me) boots listening to my sister practice saying 'nausicaa' and allette brooks is playing on my computer. 'ladder,' which i love. 'bring me a ladder,' she said finally. 'i am so angry and scared and i just don't understand who i am...'