The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Way I Feel

I looked down at the sidewalk today and saw a little rubber alien guy down there. I put him in my pocket. Felt lucky.... Listening to the audiobook of Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon, a sort of psychedelic Philip Marlowe doomaflatchie. Feel entertained, at least so far. I've never been able to wade through any of Pynchon's long (very long) meganovels, only his short novel The Crying of Lot 49, a fascinating foray into paranoid fantasy. This one seems to be heading in a similar direction.... Looking forward to getting a flu shot? I am. Feel anxious....