EN ROUTE

Dear Diary... As if it's news: Moving's a bitch. Quite literally destabilizing... The book that's unfortunately's taken me through these past few days of boxing and phoning and negotiating is FOX GIRL by Nora Okja Keller, which unfortunately, since it was much anticipated, is rather crappy... But as far as migration is concerned, and Korean-American fiction, Kang's EAST GOES WEST and Park's BOY GENIUS are both winners... which I'll tell you about as soon as I pack, move, then unpack my computer over the weekend... On a little personal note, mom's got the nicest neighbor, Cornelius, who I never quite noticed before. But I flirted outrageously with him last weekend and he's a used typewriter salesman with a shop in Astoria and the coolest Motown vinyl collection I've ever...

Made my old ticker go pitter patter like it hasn't in years.

Forgive the distraction from our usual concerns, dearest diary, but anticipating's almost as fun as the doing. Plus the man's turned my brain into pudding.

Ok, We'll talk again in the new digs.

-Eustace