Pat sure gives good notebook. Excuse me, I’m off to the stationery store.

To make it brief, I sat down on the weekend, sawed at the cello and music came out. The instrument has gone from nemesis and source of self-deprecating humor and frustration to source of enjoyment, I thought. I’m still not good, but now I can say I play the cello, I thought.

Then yesterday I arrived at the music school for my lesson and a flute teacher tells me, “We picked out a song for you to play with the quartet.”

“Oh, that’s nice,” I said. Then I went to the room where I have my lessons and wiped sweat from my brow. I was still wiping when my teacher arrived.

“Oh, I see the flute teacher told you…” he said.

Henry Purcell, the Fairy Queen. A piece from that arranged for recorder quartet, four grown-up beginners (?) playing recorder, me playing the bass line, and someone else playing spinett or something. They have promised me, no audience, only the musicians. But still…

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Assuming your prostate is healthy, the doctor will feel a soft (but not too soft), smooth, symmetrical, heart-shaped gland that is only 2.5 centimeters (one inch) long.

In honor of the prostate, the only heart-shaped organ you’ll find inside your average human (and not even half of them), Feral Living is proud to announce the Second Annual Feral Living Valentine’s Day Limerick Contest. Leave your entries in the comments to this post. Deadline: 14 February, 2003.

Further rules in the comments, mixed in with the entries. Be sure and read the directions!

For further information:
-last year’s announcement and entries
-last year’s winners.

Attractive candy hearts courtesy ACME Heart Maker.

writers-block.org

Via the best non-pleather blog in Canada

But it got me started rewriting my novel.

Cornille’s Small Theory of Relativity.

and

Schopenhauer on blogging.