I got the best calendar on sale for $3, the Lemony Snicket Series of Unfortunate Events Calendar 2004. It now hangs proudly in my cubicle at work, inspiring me with quotes scattered around on random dates, like this one for yesterday:

“It is deep January. The sky is hard.
The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.”
-Wallace Stevens

Followed with this tidbit of information for today:

“Like many poets, Wallace Stevens is dead.”

I picked this up going to the bookstore, with my primary goal just being to buy a couple of cheapo calendars, but of course I bought another volume of Kare Kano and an Erica Sakurazawa volume, Angel Nest, which features a storyline where a woman’s life gets destroyed but a silent gin drinking angel mysteriously appears in her apartment.

I also added to my shelf of unread books the novel Watch Your Mouth written by Daniel Handler, the man who mysteriously appears at Lemony Snicket’s book signings with an accordian.