Analysis.

It's been a weird week. I've been creative this week in my blogs, if perhaps a little cvryptic at times. It's funny to think about literary theory with respect to blogging. Homes got ahead of us in his classes sometimes, talking about author's intent and stuff like that. It was always very interesting, but most of the time I'm not really sure I processed it fully. Can you imagine analyzing the Better Butter Blog? i.e.:"What do you think Mr. Jimenez meant when he postulated the existence of the 'Happenstance Lie'? ; 'Does Mr. Jimenez' fascination with lying undercut any subsequent claim to the truth?' It's fun to think about your audience when you're pretty confident you have none! :) I need to do some theoretical analysis of this post, I think! What a weirdo!

But, I am sad about JD Salinger. A while ago, I remember blogging about how we feel sad when someone famous dies, even though we never met that person, and maybe haven't thought about him or her for months and years even. And then he or she dies, and then you are sad. JD Salinger has been dead in a way for a long time. But words, and books, live in a way that is hard to fathom. People connected with Catcher in the Rye, and because it was so alive, Mr. Salinger was too. Can you imagine creating Holden Caulfield? I know people who have named their pets after him! That guy is like a real person in my head! Now, JD Salinger is dead, and for all but three or four people in the world, things are exactly the same. But we remember.

You know who is sad? Warden. A few nights, he has woken me up in the middle of the night barking at nothing, just a sad, lonely bark at the wall, at the emptiness he feels now that Stella is gone. I understand, but I don't. I think we need a puppy. Maybe after the vision quest.

I need to get a new food processor. I need to get a nice one that will stand up to the butter making that killed the cheap one I got at Wal-mart. I hand shook a small batch of butter with chopped almonds and raw carrots this afternoon. It took a lot out of me, but it was kind of delicious.