38. Weather, devolution

Good evening. I write to you from Missoula MT, which for the past few mornings has been covered by a dastardly fine layer of ice (unnoticeable to me and my snow tires). Apparently also the days have been dark and gray, although I haven't noticed. Oh what's the point in trying to talk about the weather here, when there's such tough competition at the Missoulian? I can't be that cute! I won't do it anymore.

My life has devolved into that of a couch-hopper. My journal has devolved into a collection of to-do lists. My most current to-do list includes the following item:

• write list

Tuesday night I wrote a list of songs to play on my radio show, the most preparation I've done in six months (if not three years). Here's a list of things I've accomplished in the last week:

• moved out
• went home
• got resickened
• got new shoes
• changed the power back to the owner of my old house
• sent in receipts to the insurance company, now I twiddle my thumbs to see what comes back
• moved my bike to campus to wait for my return

I am full of good ideas (as you well know) and the name of my Australia travelblog will be blaugstralia.blogspot.com. Or it might be blaustralia. I haven't decided.

Can't stop coughing. Good night.