This week I am staying in & making CDs for faraway friends. I am going very slowly thru Nadja, which I started only yesterday. I am trying to write a sestina. I am cooking at home from Japanese recipes. I am taking my vitamins.
Actually I am taking prenatal vitamins. Not because I am trying to make my body a more hospitable place for a fetus to live. I'm taking them because a once-pregnant, now-mommy friend of mine told me prenatal vitamins made her hair grow at a phenomenal rate & that is exactly what I'm hoping will happen to me. Then I heard from another friend that it's only the natural hormones produced by pregnant women's bodies that cause this accelerated-hair-growth phenomenon. I'm continuing with the vitamin regimen in spite of the evidence against it. Besides it's funny to go to the drugstore & buy prenatal supplies & a pack of cigarettes at the same time. You know the pharmacist is just dying to intervene on the fetus's behalf. Only you know there is no fetus.
I am going thru Nadja very slowly because it is full of sentences like this: "As far as I am concerned, a mind's arrangement with regard to certain objects is even more important than its regard for certain arrangements of objects, these two kinds of arrangement controlling between them all forms of sensibility."
& that's only page 6. I'm up to 44 so far, but only because there are lots of pictures.
