Bookshelf to read: The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes (translated by Edith Grossman)
Cassette player: Herman Melville's Moby Dick, narrated by Frank Muller
CD player: Shostakovich String Quartets, nos. 4-6, by the Emerson String Quartet
Knitting needles: Still socks in KnitPick's Shine - almost up to the heel
Tonight's menu: Seafood corn chowder
List of things to get Nikita to eat: Reading books (September 2005 issue of Babybug, Rescue Trucks by Betsey Imershein), telling him that we're going to play/go outside