It's normal, Darling, but i'd rather be natural......

In case you're wondering, and I know you are, I'm really into to all things Harper Lee and Truman  Capote related right now.  I'm getting a bit too into it as I'm now watching documentaries I've already seen and listening to the audio versions of To Kill a Mockingbird and In Cold Blood.

and really, In Cold Blood is just the best. Truman Capote goes all CSI before there was such a thing and it's based on a true story, which as long as i'm telling you how ridiculous i am, i've also been reading about. Small town murders really fascinate me.

and i can foresee myself watching/reading Breakfast at Tiffany's about 1000 more times and then going off on a Hepburn tangent which almost always leads to a Kennedy tangent.

and then i fall more in love with New York and desperately want to go there and then i plan a fake trip.

I have about 30 drafts of what i'd do in new york, all of them involve the library, and tiffany's and central park.

and cue a sex and the city and friends themed frenzy....

as you can see, it's very "if you give a mouse a cookie"

So there's that.

I'm getting more Boo Radley-esque by the second.

And while we're on the subject...if i have kids and i have a boy, his middle name will be Atticus.

or maybe i'll just get a dog and name him Atticus.

ok, so...you see how this is becoming a problem....

So, I get really into biographies and memories and short stories from real people (a la Shauna Niequest...obsessed with her stuff lately) and I get a pile of them going and don't surface to talk to people until i am bursting with random facts that no one but me cares about.

Unless you're Laura and nerdy like me. I miss her. She needs to become part of my real life again.

Well, I'm sleeping and just continuing to tell you embarrassing things about myself so I'll just stop and leave you with one of my fave Capote quotes....

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.” 

seriously...i love words. how can you not? it's just exactly how my heart beats.