What I would like for my birthday.

* a giant clock (or a different giant clock) (or really any giant clock)

* the Betty B. Garee Anthology CD

* an etching by Mary Lou Hess

* more memory for my laptop

* a single Malmark or Schulmerich handbell, ideally in the 5s or 6s somewhere

* or, heck, while I'm listing expensive presents no ones going to get me, I might as well ask for a set of curling stones

* Radiohead's The Bends and Kid A, neither of which I ever got around to buying

* The Happiest Toddler on the Block, the sequel to the lifesaving book The Happiest Baby on the Block

* something like this, but, you know, way way cheaper

* also, this clock or this clock

* a subscription to the Virginia Quarterly Review

* socks