AUSTIN, Texas, April 30, 2004 —
Almost finished Ernie Pyle's Here is Your War, so close that I brought it in the house to finish up this night and tomorrow. Newpapers, of course. I'm almost keeping up these days. Not quite, but almost.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 29, 2004 —
Just newspapers.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 28, 2004 —
Newspapers...some new drugs may be able to get by the brain barrior to treat brain cancer and even Alzheimer's. Getting close to finished on Pyle's book but still not there.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 27, 2004 —
Newspapers, mostly from within the last week. Guess what? The actuaries are changing the life expectancy tables so that the mortality for men and women who read 100 years old is not 100 per cent. No, only thirty-something percent of men and twenty-something percent of women who are 100 are perdicting to die in the next year. This means life insurance won't automatically pay off at age 100. Also still reading the Ernie Pyle book.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 26, 2004 —
Old newspapers and the Ernie Pyle book.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 25, 2004 —
Old newspapers. Who knew that Honda would engineer cars for the safety of pedestrians struck by the vehicles?

AUSTIN, Texas, April 24, 2004 —
Old newspapers. Here's a news flash: sodas may contribute to obesity. Also read an article in an old The New York Times magazine about name battles for Trademarks and domain names. Did you know that onomastics was the study of names? I love a new word. Article made me realize how lucky I was to get cardboardsigns.com with all the competition in cyberland. Same magazine had a Lives column where people write in (you could but you probably wouldn't be published) and give some little one page personal story...and this one was a guy who saw Spalding Gray on the ferry before he jumped off. Supposedly. Maybe. No one saw him jump. I read some more of the Ernie Pyle book on the bike.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 23, 2004 —
Old newspapers. I learned that you can recycle shredded paper in Austin and I finally thoroughly read the stuff in The New York Times about Spalding Gray after his body floated up (he might have jumped off the Staten Island Ferry). I learned that exercise helps recovery from breast cancer. And I found this quote from Spaulding that is priceless at the end of the obituary: "It's very hard for me not to tell everybody everything." I might have to put it on my journal cover. If only, if only I could read newspapers in real time like most people.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 22, 2004 —
Here is Your War by Ernie Pyle on the bike. Puts our own problems in perspective to read about young warriors. Read part of a class book about the years leading to D-Day.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 21, 2004 —
Finished the screenplay of Citizen Ruth. Started an old 1964 novel about Paris in the thirties and forties that I probably won't finish. Located the Ernie Pyle book I lost mid-reading. It was in one of the bathrooms. Imagine that?

AUSTIN, Texas, April 20, 2004 —
I misplaced Here is Your War (somewhere in the house, I hope) and so I read the screenplay of a movie called Citizen Ruth.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 19, 2004 —
Still reading Here is Your War by Ernie Pyle on the bike. Read some of the humor issue of The New Yorker. Read a draft of a friend's play and a little bit of the newspapers like Tech Monday and such.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 16, 2004 —
I read Here is Your War by Ernie Pyle on the bike.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 15, 2004 —
I finished the screenplay for Girls Town and read interviews with the writers and director. Interesting way the movie was developed with a cast helping write it from a treatment or outline. I read most of the Austin paper (or scanned it to prove there was nothing I wanted to read). I started reading the screenplay for Big Night. I've seen the movie many times. Andy Tucci is a writer on it and the script seems (so far) quite true to the film. I'll watch it again.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 13, 2004 —
I read the screenplay for a movie called Walking and Talking. It's one of those movies that you feel sure you saw on cable in random fifteen minute increments. The interview with the writer/director is interesting, too. She was writing about something that happened to her. I started a screenplay about a movie called Girls Town. I have the vague sense I've seen it, too. But it isn't available on DVD so I can't order it on Netflix.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 11, 2004 —
I continue to read screenplays in these old magazines I have and also the newspapers.