it's been really nice, after all the visiting with people, going out and doing things over the past couple of weeks, to just stay home and do my own thing for a couple of days. yesterday i busted ass all day on the website and got a lot of stuff figured out. today i went to the gym, finished one of a pair of socks i'm knitting for someone to throw away, spent a good long chunk of time redrawing the background for this painting i've been wanting to start for a while - i finally got to start actually painting it and i think it's comin along kinda cool... not done in any sense of the word yet. the hooker's leg is gonna be wearing fishnet stockings which i'd like to sew on there, it'd be kinda cool i think...

also, if you ever want to make me bawl like a little baby you'll make me listen to maya angelou speak. she was the guest speaker at trav's scad graduation, and she made me cry buckets when she talked about the song "when the saints go marching in". it's something about her voice, maybe it's that it's so soothing and grandmotherly... today she was on oprah and she was talking about stories behind the recipes in her new book, and i had to bust out the kleenex. maybe i just really like red rice, i dunno...