easily excitable

May 9, 2006

i am, by:

cheese
strange and unusual people
fast moving vehicles
clock towers
hyphenated words
deliciously cold beverages
scotch tape
lists of items
crossing off of lists of items
cheese again
a job well done and the well-deserved praise
a job poorly done and the unexpected but still well-deserved praise
surprises
the promise of sleep
etc., e.g., and other weirdly punctuated abbreviations
lists of lists

mary gordon introduced me once as "a wild poet in the guise of a prose writer" with a "rollicking voice". she's like a famous writer and i am not. i don't know if she meant it but i wrote it down verbatim and now have transcribed it here. it's hopeful and nice and probably totally untrue but it easily excited me so worthy of this list. she told me to make lists. all good writers make lists. lucky for me, i'm obsessive (and forgetful enough) to make lists out of pure habit. and now i've lost my train of thought. i should have made a list first. i really want a piece of cheese.