Reading Zizek transcripts, Chandra’s Sacred Games, Zultanski’s Cop Kisser, viewing video of national occupations of inner cities, watching Conceiving Ada, Tea and Sympathy, Rome, Open City, Paisan, Two Women, Undercurrent, Mamma Roma, finished Erofeev’s Moscow to the End of the Line, watering garden plot and watching little green things push out of unlevel dirt, missing the daylong meditation in Chico, the reading last night in the Bay, missing my best friend’s recently deceased wife, walking my dictatorial dog, cleaning up their yard, buying two Versace shirts at the nearby Salvation Army for $5, worried about ending grad school and the job vacancies, wondering about the heater in our house, wondering about Buddhism and activism, burning Nag Champa, worrying over things I will forget about by next week.