  ::Not so much easy as addicted...:: Onesome: Not so much -- --to do now that school is out for the students? ...or maybe a little too much to do for those student's parental units? What are you up to this July? Back for Summer Sessions? ...off to the beach? ...headed out on a weekend adventure? Surely you must be doing something!
I'm working way too much in July: trying to tie up several loose ends at the library, in the midst of some extra projects elsewhere, in the final thesis editing process (if a phone conference this evening goes as planned). I'm hoping to be able to take some well-earned and much desired time away very soon. Twosome: easy as -- Pie? Sure, how about your favorite pie? ...and hey, homemade versus store bought! Would you rather have Mom's Apple Pie or head on over to Marie C's for a slice of heaven there? I'm not a huge fan of pie. I know I'm going to be accused of anti-Americanism for that, but it's only because there are other things that I like better. That being said, my mom makes a good apple pie. And when I'm in the moment, Baker's Square's chocolate peanut butter is delicious. However, there's no better pie than Frenchy. [wink] Threesome: addicted -- Okay, what is it you are addicted to, that element of your life you simply cannot do without.
Reading? The Net? Little porcelain dolls? Oh, yeah: Money? Nah, make it something you'd spend your spare change on... A casual list of my addictions, in no order, and only as I can think of them off the top of my head: tea a steady supply of fresh reading material buying cards (i.e. Crane's note cards, or those little square cards from Hallmark) the current talisman - something I carry with me just 'cause writing, somehow, somewhere new music (or older music, newly discovered) ironically, deprivation - it makes the eventual succumbing all the sweeter (e.g.
to buying something really expensive nice pens. I received a Waterman as a gift several years ago and since then it's difficult to write with disposables. My favorite is my Montblanc Meisterstück, big and heavy and masculine. It makes me feel like a lawyer. 
