there's a King Missile song called Mystical S***

I got nothing, friends.

Well, wait: I've got some photos. Friar and Squire built a new compost bin cause we outgrew the little one, and we expected to just turn the compost into a larger container but no, in six months we've gone from "hehn, I dunno, toss it on the compost with the rest of the shit" for egg cartons, vegetable peels, weeds, etc., to the blackest loamiest lushest soil I could have imagined. Like, people would pay for compost of this quality, really. I don't know if anybody's interested in that sort of thing but I feel really like superwoman about it, because a job that does itself is the best job of all. Plus there is nothing more fun than fitting "shit" into conversations like "we moved some shit from one place to another" or "we turned that shit around" or "I was up to my knees in shit this weekend" etc. For your viewing, I've only posted pics of the bin construction, cause some people are afraid of dirt (?).

Oh, and also some good, non-composty shit: My sister came to visit and it was incredible. It was basically like a year's worth of crashing walls and ensuing revelations condensed into 10 days of awesome. I feel really clear on some things and I feel pretty good about others. Also I feel really lucky to have such a cool sister, which I always feel that way but now even more so. It was the first time she's hung with Friar, and the longest time she's hung with Squire like since he was born, and it meant the world.

At her suggestion, I moved my desk into the living room in the hopes of separating work from the central hub of the house, which is the kitchen, because it was messing me up to work when I wanted to eat and to be thinking about work when I wanted to be socializing. The central hub of activity now seems to be moving into the living room, which is funny. However, my keyboard doesn't smell like cooking oil so much, so there's that.

In other news, and there will not be photos, I'm signed up for a belly dancing class with my friend who runs the school where the class is, because they need students. I am curious.