Thursday, 27 September 2001 | Multiple choice

You took the day off from work, and it's one of the prettiest days of the year. How would you choose to spend your day? (a) going for a long walk (b) reading a book on the back porch (c) cleaning the house (d) getting some work done on a freelance project, or (e) shivering under a few pounds of blankets on which the cat is delicately balanced, taking calls from telemarketers, and missing an opportunity to go to a Modest Mouse show? Ah, yes. I'm sick.

By the way, Leeches is back. Well, back and gone again. My voice isn't loud enough to call for her, and I don't want to go looking for her since discovering yesterday that there's a man living underneath my house. Still working on a solution to that one.