monday october 22 2001    |    11:34 p.m.

another chapter in: why i have the best friends in the world, hands down:

so today was another melancholy day in which i watched the rain and read hawaii and couldn't really get anything to sound right, so i opted for percy sledge, but quiet.

that is, of course, until i got his package in the mail,

inside which arrived a fresh copy of rufus wainwright's new album, poses,

signed by rufus wainwright himself.

would you believe it's even better than the first one? it is.

dawgus, you rock like a thousand million category-4 hurricanes. (this is also the man who brought me back all sorts of g love paraphernalia, signed "with love to [katpowah]", two years ago when g played in columbus and i had too much homework to go.)

how can i allow myself to ever get mopey with people like this in my life?

thank you.