Stacy Horn

Someone I know has started a business selling bath products called Autumn Roof.

I know these are going to be good because she totally gets the whole bath pampering thing. She respects the power of the bath. (We both have always loved Lush and have our favorite Lush products so I’m very very very curious to see what she comes up with.)

That first link is to the Etsy store, but the main web page that explains the products is here. It seems like they’re just gearing up now. It says everything is beta, but it looks like there are products in the store. I’m going to bookmark and check back periodically. Good luck Autumn Roof!!

I was thinking of doing a “workers of the West Village” series, not that the picture below is a very good start, alas.

It’s hard being sick, because I live such a hermit-like existence as it is. Adding staying home more because I don’t feel well puts me into the ridiculously-hermit-like range. This also goes into the near-constant-self-criticism pile. Ugh.

Not as in I’m homesick, but I’m home sick. I don’t feel like doing anything. I think I have just enough food in the house to get by. Hey, before I forget, is anyone going to Jon Stewart’s Return to Sanity rally? I’m thinking of going. It’s so easy. DC is very close for me.

Anyway, I’ve been doing a ton of reading about Haydn, and what popped out for me were the affairs he had. The man was a musical genius, but I’m afraid that this is what I plan to write about. Sorry, Haydn. His wife was having an affair too by the way, so I don’t get the sense that anyone was hurt. I just can’t resist these letters he wrote.

I’ve often thought this building on the corner of Perry, Waverly and Seventh Avenue was like a mini-West Village Flatiron Building.

Not that there was ever a person who at any time in history would have taken home a discarded mattress—now I don’t even want to walk on the same block where one of them has been put out.

I didn’t notice the guy in the window as I was taking this. Hello, neighbor!

I was supposed to meet a friend for lunch, but I meekly cancelled because of the rain, and she emphatically agreed about rescheduling, so now I feel better about it!

To do today: pick up library book, transcribe notes from library yesterday, make a “to do” plan for the new chapter.

I took pictures of the paintings at the Met that literally seemed to glow or shine out with light, but of course my pictures don’t really capture it. This one came the closest. In person, at the Met, you practically needed sun glasses to look at it.