This is all I’ve been doing lately; how about you?

I’m frantically trying to finish 2000 invitations to the Center for Book Arts Annual Benefit and Auction (which you should come to! or donate to! or bid on the online auction which I’m also frantically putting together! Among a multitude of other things! Like a spring schedule! And a summer schedule!). I am also trying to understand why my internet service is so terrible, and why it’s snowing in March, and trying to make time to figure out where to stay in Berlin, and failing, and attempting to start training for the Brooklyn Half.

So I have very little to say about birds this week, other than go look at this! and go read this!

In the interest of research for my new book, I went to the American Museum of Natural History on Sunday; it’s a strange place, which I haven’t visited in years. I thought I knew what natural history was, but perhaps I’m wrong about that. In any case, I enjoyed taxidermy at its finest. Birds of the World! (and also of NY State.)

Also some mammals:

1. You know why I’m writing this post? So that I can distract myself from hitting ‘refresh’ on nytimes.com over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Why does the internet turn me into one of those lab rats they feed cocaine to?

2. Hello, I’m fine, my family’s fine, everything’s fine. I survived the natural disaster fine. Many other people aren’t fine; please consider helping them. No, I’m not sad we didn’t have a marathon.

3. Commuting:

Why I hate the bus:

New Pamphlet!!:

3. I’m going to try to concentrate on working on a new book tonight, if I can keep myself away for long enough from election results.

4. Also, this:

My last 20 mile training run is done; I’m ready to go for the Marathon. Bam! I took 10 minutes off of my half-marathon time last week at the Staten Island Half and am feeling good. Well, sore at the moment, but in a good way.

I ran 20 miles today like a beast. Rawr.

One more 20 miler to go before the marathon. I would tell you about the exciting productive weekend I had, but I always feel slow and stupid after a long run. I”ll save it for tomorrow.

“Our traditional printing business has fallen off,” VonColln said. “But compared to that, letterpress is growing. So the bright spot is letterpress.”

–awesome article on printing in Nashville

There’s benefit invitation ink in my hair.

Work. No fun for me. The Center’s annual Benefit and Auction are coming up. Save the date! April 4, 2012!

I need a new roommate and a new camera. Any suggestions? Frankie here isn’t helping.

I’m running the NYC Marathon. See this.

Online collaborative image database of hand painted lettering, as well as three-dimensional signs. I can spend hours here.

http://typarchive.com