Research for the present, frivolous post led me to a marvelous quotation:
“Do you know the sum total of my ambition? It’s to have an intelligent, well-read man shut himself up with my book for four hours and to give him an orgy of historical hashish. That’s all I want.” –GF, January 1860 (apud Henri Troyat, Flaubert, 173, on the writing of Salammbô).
♦ I like these shoes (in the snakeskin version). I have these by the same maker and they are beyond good. I bought them at Gae-Tana’s and they cost less.
♦ The bedroom I had painted now looks like a hotel. The one I did not resembles Freud’s study, or a scene out of Salammbô. An elegant opium den, perhaps, or some other Orientalist dream.
♦ I am thinking about selling my kitchen table, which is a real cypress table but not quite right for any of my purposes. I would buy instead a small metal café table and two chairs for the kitchen, and eventually a real desk and chair for the main bedroom, which is going to become my study except when it is rented out.
♦ It seems a sacrilege to sell a cypress table if you have one — a Shaker style cypress table that I expected to be a lifelong prized possession when I bought it. Yet I am considering this.
♦ Why do some of the djs on WWOZ act as though they were talking only to tourists and New Orleans fans in remote locations? Do they have more such listeners than local ones? (It is possible.)
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
The alternative to selling the table would be to hire someone to work on it, transforming it into a desk. It would be made to stop wobbling, and the legs would become one inch shorter. Then I would refinish it.
This, however, would probably mean transporting it to a workshop, which would probably mean tying it to the top of my car since I do not know anyone with a truck any more. Ay. I suppose this is feasible.
But I am not sure this would work. I might sell it as an adventure … I have never sold this type of possession before …
LOVE the shoes you already own.
I think you should find them at one of these off price boutiques and buy them. They really are worth it — they look even better in person than in those pictures, unusual, hip and really comfortable. And the pink doesn’t look silly pink, it is in practice more like a neutral.