The George Washington Bird Project

09/07/2009

The George Washington Bird Project

So today our new couch arrived, which was a cause for some aggravation and some celebration. Before it arrived, I said to Stephen: 'You'd better print out the invoice, because I know they're going to show up and say that we didn't pay to have it installed.' This turned out to be exactly right! But after a flurry of phone calls between the four companies involved, it was determined that we did in fact pay to have it installed. At one point the guy on the phone was like: 'u mean screwing on the legs and putting it together?' I could tell that he was implicitly threatening my masculinity, but less affronted by this sort of thing than I might have been in the past, I said: 'that's what we paid for!' and he eventually agreed that this was true. Anyway, the couch is in and it looks great: I will no doubt spend many thousands of hours on it watching the bridge from our window (unless we hit the lottery and move to the estate section of Riverdale).

In other news, I turned my novel back in to the editor, which was kind of sad and kind of a relief. There is definitely truth in the idea that working on something is less nerve-racking than waiting for a reaction. As soon as I e-mailed it off, I was overcome by a sense of futility and doom, even though I'm fairly confident that this is the best version yet! Fortunately I was able to distract myself by contemplating the new couch and the bridge, and by playing with the cats, who were even more excited than we were to get the couch.

Summer's over and it's time to get back to watching teevee work.

We are birds flying over the bridge, trying 2 find our way across the infinite sky.

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"...the cats, who were even more excited than we were to get the couch. "

Wait... weren't they the whole reason for buying the couch?

Posted by: cfl | 09/08/2009 at 01:44 PM

It often seems that way!!!

Posted by: Matthew Gallaway | 09/08/2009 at 01:54 PM

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