I wish. I wish I were listless instead of just lazy.

Hey, it’s Labour Day weekend and I’m trying to line up my commitments and figure out when and how to deal with them. My list is overwhelming, and most of the items on it are imperative with imminent deadlines. I am slowly slowly working on them...

So why do I sit and watch the Blue Jays?

Most of the time, I write or make notes in between the tense moments, and stop when the bases are loaded and it’s a 3-2 count - well, you know. Today, though, I just watched the different pitchers, and marvelled at the slow, inexorable build of tension.

I won’t burden you with my pressures. We all have them. Other people’s moccasins and all that. Just let me ask you one thing:

Did you learn anything today?

Anon, anon.

You're not going to believe this.

I copied this from an item from the New York Times, a report by Florence Fabricant (is she real or is she fabricated?).

"THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET'S SECRET INGREDIENT: Purified seawater from Spain is sold in pouches to use, diluted somewhat for cooking...potatoes and pasta cooked in it were delicious. Mediterranean Seawater, @$9.99 for 1.5 liters; $49.99 for 10 liters, from Kaluystan's, 123 Lexington Avenue. kaluystans.com."

It's bad enough we have to buy drinking water, but now - sea water??? It’s too bizarre. There are no words adequate to express my dismay. Pure drinking water is at a premium in many parts of the world and we, who live in a country full of pure water, have to buy it, or choose to buy it, but sea water?

I keep wanting to say, “Wake me when it’s over,” but it’s not going to be over, not for a while. Oh my.

"Thousands have lived without love, but not one without water." W.H. Auden