ahhh...early morning. how i love it. no one is awake except me... and scruffy. i am enjoying my cup of tea and solitude. june gloom is officially over so no more soft, foggy morns---now the sun starts shining with a vengeance right away. i don't have to work today. i don't have to do anything today actually and that feels so so good. my plan: read the l.a. times, drink my tea, do some yoga, eat a leisurely breakfast, check the farmer's market for ripe tomatoes, let the day unfold as it will. some things on my mind: poor poor london, how all my lovely friends in chicago are doing (i miss them), financial affairs (trying to expel that from my thoughts until at least afternoon), and breakfast. what shall i eat for breakfast? any ideas?

last night nick and i dressed up and went into oh-so-very-hip los angeles for bill's birthday. he didn't get off of work so we went there and made as much of a ruckus as possible. he works at some very strange indian bar/restaurant with loads of mirrors and one fake palm tree. i made sure to make some kind of very loud birthday celebratory yell every few minutes or so. and bill arranged it so that all the tips at the bar went to the american cancer society in a characteristic warm-hearted bill gesture. i love that boy.

thanks for the comments each and every one of you. i wasn't expecting chicago friends to reply. what a pleasant suprise. big love and hugs to you all.