today: a brilliant discovery! when i’m in the theatre i can hijack wireless internet from the apartment complex next door. now i can surf the web when i’m supposed to be paying attention in rehearsal. like right now.

monday this week was the day that chicago bloomed. the trees had been holding their breath for days, a hazy suggestion of color about them, and then monday, poof! chicago re-discovered the color green.

as punishment for us all getting so optimistic and breaking out the flip flops on monday, today it is snowing. we dragged all my window boxes and flower pots indoors last night to keep the peonies from freezing. now our bathroom has become an impromptu hothouse. zeke lurks forlornly in the hallway; there is nothing he loves more than nibbling on forbidden flowers.