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RTT up all night reading the sequel to Holes. Naturally, I feel like the world's worst mother – who ever heard of binge reading?
"I can't go to school today," he whined. "I'll fall asleep in class."
"Out that door, Mister," I say. "Stab yourself with a pencil or something."
I suppose I should have snatched the book away from him. But I let him read himself to sleep all the time. He's eleven years old now. Shouldn't he have some autonomic regulatory system in place? Or is he an addict? Is it only a matter of time before he moves on to the hard stuff, Gravity's Rainbow, Finnegan's Wake, ancient copies of Popular Mechanics?
A nuts and bolts episode of Project Runway last night designed solely to get rid of dead weight. Wacky Science Girl and the hapless Marla Auf Wiedersehen-ed; Adrian Brody-look-alike Daniel V and Andrae up a notch. Daniel V is now quietly neck-in-neck with the villainous Santino. Santino's design = yuck but I do agree with him about the ubiquitous awfulness of Michael Kors whose sportswear line I ran into at Macy's recently: can you say chartreuse and sweat factory? Mr. Rogers thinks you can!
In other news, late yesterday we sold two ultra-expensive masks – the Jolly Antico Oro and Maschera Guerriero, and that was a good thing because our total sales for the day up to that point had amounted to three bottles of hot sauce. Susan's words keep ringing in my ears: "Is it a business, Patty, or is it an expensive hobby?"
But I mean, you know. She could have asked Jeff Bezos the same thing for the first ten years.
Not that my store is a revolutionary new business model. It's just something I love.
It always comes down to capital and projections. The breakeven point is in the future but that future isn't getting any closer because the business is a volume racket, and the volume isn't here. When the volume is here, we do quite well. But how do I ensure that volume?
And I'm still coding away on the Cirque de Méprise media kit. I know just enough CSS to visualize the effects I want to create and grind my teeth when I can't tweak them precisely. The site looks awful. But grasshopper, I have learned from Project Runway: at a certain point, it doesn't matter what the site looks like; it only matters that the site gets done.
My life feels very small to me right now…
"I can't go to school today," he whined. "I'll fall asleep in class."
"Out that door, Mister," I say. "Stab yourself with a pencil or something."
I suppose I should have snatched the book away from him. But I let him read himself to sleep all the time. He's eleven years old now. Shouldn't he have some autonomic regulatory system in place? Or is he an addict? Is it only a matter of time before he moves on to the hard stuff, Gravity's Rainbow, Finnegan's Wake, ancient copies of Popular Mechanics?
A nuts and bolts episode of Project Runway last night designed solely to get rid of dead weight. Wacky Science Girl and the hapless Marla Auf Wiedersehen-ed; Adrian Brody-look-alike Daniel V and Andrae up a notch. Daniel V is now quietly neck-in-neck with the villainous Santino. Santino's design = yuck but I do agree with him about the ubiquitous awfulness of Michael Kors whose sportswear line I ran into at Macy's recently: can you say chartreuse and sweat factory? Mr. Rogers thinks you can!
In other news, late yesterday we sold two ultra-expensive masks – the Jolly Antico Oro and Maschera Guerriero, and that was a good thing because our total sales for the day up to that point had amounted to three bottles of hot sauce. Susan's words keep ringing in my ears: "Is it a business, Patty, or is it an expensive hobby?"
But I mean, you know. She could have asked Jeff Bezos the same thing for the first ten years.
Not that my store is a revolutionary new business model. It's just something I love.
It always comes down to capital and projections. The breakeven point is in the future but that future isn't getting any closer because the business is a volume racket, and the volume isn't here. When the volume is here, we do quite well. But how do I ensure that volume?
And I'm still coding away on the Cirque de Méprise media kit. I know just enough CSS to visualize the effects I want to create and grind my teeth when I can't tweak them precisely. The site looks awful. But grasshopper, I have learned from Project Runway: at a certain point, it doesn't matter what the site looks like; it only matters that the site gets done.
My life feels very small to me right now…
