Day 58----

An old friend asked me to write a piece on quarantine reading habits for her website. I've been working on it since last week but haven't had the best times to write. So I've been writing paragraphs at random while bambi is facetiming with my parents, in the moments before I start her a movie on this computer, when I step out of the shower-- sometimes just lists of ideas I want to add. So today during a--now rare--nap I actually got a chance to unravel, make coherency of the lists, re-order, rewrite, add all the references and quotes I'd been paraphrasing before. When I was banished from the bedroom for one of jesse's work meetings, I gathered up a several foot high pile of books. "Are you really going to need all of those??? This meeting is only thirty minutes!" I did.

Bambi stirs then resettles. Jesse ends his work call and tip toes past me to make the coffee. I feel justified by my obvious use of all books. I write a few minutes longer, finally happy with the bit about my inland sea I thought I would have to cut. Suddenly bambi calls, "Dada! dada? DADA!" then in alarm, "oh NO!" we both converge on her door to see her standing in her crib, curls all on end, "I slept without my night light!" --in the broad daylight. Though to be fair, we usually leave it on.
"Did I wake you with my noise in the kitchen?" jesse asks.
"No," she replies, "I ended my sleep myself." then after a pause, "Did I sleep?!!!"
As a reward for a nap well napped she gets to watch a little tv and a movie. I walk to the kitchen, pull the big green pot forward on the stove, splash the bottom with oil and let the popcorn kernels dance till they are too crowded to bounce. We share a bowl of it on the couch, dipping each kernel into our glasses of orange juice.
The popcorn gives this tiny little hiss when you dip it in the juice and its so satisfying.