Word on the Street is great. Free magazines are great*. Magazines you pay for are great. Seeing people is great. Good weather is great. Seeing your name in the masthead of a magazine you love is great**. All in all, a pretty good Sunday. Except for the part about the emotional gut.rot***. That part has got to go.

Notice to Stumblers: I'm getting a new computer very soon. Well, my father is getting a new one and I get the hand-me down****. The first--the very first!--cosmetic application will be two labels across the top of the monitor. On the left side: NO WHINING. On the right side: NO LOAFING.

Expect to see a change in attitude and productivity soon.

Notes on the above:
* free magazines: A fella from Maisonneuve gave me free Maisonneuves because I told him my subscription was free. I told him I liked his logic.

** your name in the masthead: I'm sure I've mentioned Shameless, the most excellent intelligent magazine for strong, smart sassy girls.

*** gut.rot: I typed this out three times before I settled on gut.rot. I like this spelling a lot, and will write the dictionary people a letter soon. I think it makes it very guttural (no pun intended) and links the words while giving equal disgusting emphasis to both.

**** the hand-me-down: And I'm awaiting the day. The Frankenputer, as I've come to call it, was once a very new, very spanking Packard Bell with too much junk on it. I got it for $150 because the hard drive had been wiped out and replaced with a hard drive about as quick as that of a Commodore 64 (no joke). It has the keyboard of another old computer, a printer for whom no one makes cartridges any more, and it can't even understand what a mouse is. (Turn on the MouseKeys function in your (Windows) system settings to see what it's like to be me.) Thus the Frankenputer--it's made of old, dead parts of other computers.