From Twitter 11-15-2009

• 04:30:39: is lying awake at 3.30am. joy.
  
• 08:58:56: another day. Happy rain outside.
  
• 09:03:53: Also, GooGoo has been in hyper mode almost constantly for hours. He needs to calm down. It cannot be THAT exciting in there.
  
• 09:30:47: smells yummy scrambled tofu cooking.
  
• 11:08:44: says hello, she is going to pop at any moment like an overinflated balloon.
  
• 14:13:34: And Jael said, Let there be a bath in the midst of the bathroom, and let the warm waters be divided from the cold waters, and it was so.
  
• 14:45:35: And Jael beheld, and lo, the bath was very good.
  
• 19:49:09: is making sliced baked potatoes for herself and counting down to bedtime. Sleep=best thing ever when one can get it.
  
• 21:06:54: gets to make a Powell's Pilgrimage tomorrow whilst Mr Baldwin is at his meeting. I think it will be a Good Day.
  
• 22:18:32: suspects that GooGoo ain't long for this womb.
  
• 22:22:08: realises that Ginny does not agree with my suspicions.
  

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1. I just made myself kidney bean mush for dinner. I smushed them with a fork and stirred them into a little mayonnaise with taco seasoning and a clove of garlic, spread it on warmed-up flatbread and piled rice on top of it all. It was delish.

Then I polished off the last of the fakey mac and cheese and my glass of moo juice.

2. I had a lovely time at Powell's today. I can't get over the sheer massiveness of the place. It was rather disorienting and so much fun. I had to go to the bathroom like three times while I was there though, and by the end my back was hurting so for the last half hour I gave up and just sat to wait for Mr Baldwin to turn up.

I found a fine copy of "The Yearling" with NC Wyeth illustrations, a copy of "Vinzi" given to someone by their Aunt Maud for Christmas in 1929, the last Molly (American Girl) book I needed to complete my set of her books, and perhaps best of all a copy of "The Magician's Nephew" that was only $6 and so beautiful I couldn't pass it up. It is a large-format version with slightly larger print and tinted illustrations. Even has a ribbon bookmark in it. Of course, I was sad they had none of the others in that same format, but I'm going to look around online and see if they have the rest of the series to match. (With my luck, probably not. But you never know.) After I paid for my books I also bought myself an Italian soda in the cafe, cherry, because I was in a celebratory mood.

While I was drinking it I just sat and looked out the window and thought about the city and how busy it is and watched cars and cars just going by. The cafe was crammed with people. The girl next to me was busy typing away on a MacBook, and there were a lot of other Mac users there, which naturally made me happy. :-p Right out the window was a shopping cart, full of miscellaneous items and covered with a large clear bag, propped against a tree to keep it from rolling away. The place was pretty quiet, really - there was the clinking of a few plates and a hum of life and typing fingers, but not really very much talking. Fascinating.

I could have spent longer there, probably, but in a way I was glad I didn't have to, because it was just a bit overwhelming, honestly. However, now that I have been able to wander freely and get a better idea of the layout and what's what, I think next time my visit can be planned ahead a bit and a hair more structured.

Oh, and I got to go into their Rare Books Room. It was so beautiful and wooden and lamplighty, although I can't say there was much in there that really appealed to me and I was pretty much afraid to touch anything in there anyway. Allegedly they have a book from 1482 somewhere in that room that's worth over $14,000.

3. Dan had a good meeting and it sounds like he will indeed be getting this job for the city of Portland. Yay, moving up in the world. :-D

4. Also stopped at the Adventist Book Centre on the way home. Andrew needed some stuff from there and we both had a couple things to pick up there too.