oldzork

the nice thing about the Juan de Fuca is that it's less expensive, more accessible, and, from what i've been told, not nearly as busy. and we don't have to book in advance. when we went in 2003 it was amazing, but we only did 21 km (from Botanical Beach to Sombrio). this time, we're hoping to do the whole thing.

I love orchids. The first picture up there looks a little menacing. It has fang-looking things at the bottom. It's like some mutated carnivorous plant who will devour a full-grown adult in seconds. You should be careful.

I can count on you to give me sound advice! So now I am reading multiple pleasure books.

At the library I checked out 3 Philip Roth books: Goodbye Columbus, The Human Stain, and The Dying Animal. Have you read any or all? Some jerk took the only copy of American Pastoral, so I have to wait until it's available. (Oh yeah, Clarke's book is STILL unavailable. Probably the same jerk will renew it til the end of the year...)

I just finished another book: Nabokov's Glory. I really liked it but of course it pales in comparison to Lolita. It must be frightfully sad when every other book of yours is compared with your genius masterpiece.

H is still on Hold.

How is your Big D coming along?