I just talked to my friend Brian in New Mexico. I haven't talked to him in -- let's see -- three years? My word. Since we last talked he's become a grad student and gotten married.
The world moves so fast. Am I standing still?
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11:45:31 AM,
Wednesday 30 June 2004
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Headache. Why? Why? What have I done? Besides get all stressed out and almost buried under a mountain of papers to file, I mean.
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07:42:50 PM,
Tuesday 29 June 2004
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Skipped out on the Coat tonight. Hoping I won't be ostracized. (They'd do it all old-school too, with the pebbles and so forth.)
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05:52:25 PM,
Tuesday 29 June 2004
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Things I did this weekend: Watched Restless, once for real and once with commentary by Joss. (He talks about the lenses they used! OMG!) Went to the Dyke March, where I learned a little something about myself. (Not that I'm a lesbian. That I use the presence of facial hair to distinguish between butch ladies and transmen. Don't laugh, it's hard sometimes.) Went to "thai temple brunch" (what non-Thai speakers call brunch at Wat Mongkolratanaram, which is a word I can't pronounce). Rearranged the furniture in my bedroom and cleaned it. Visited friends in the city. Ate a hot dog. Went to Lucky 13. Went to Osento. Had my bedroom invaded by ants. Sorted through a large stack of clothing to repair or alter. Completely forgot to read or prepare the outline for tonight's Spinoza's Coat reading. Oops.
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04:54:32 PM,
Tuesday 29 June 2004
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Comics today: Pretty Depressing, Parisian sewers.
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01:21:34 PM,
Monday 28 June 2004
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brain...melting...must...leave...office...
(sidenote: why didn't I wear the serious deodorant? I knew I was wearing polyester. Why didn't I think ahead? And how did people manage in the '70s?)
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07:39:06 PM,
Thursday 24 June 2004
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Got Watchmen out of the library last night -- felt that I ought to be reading some classics. Two chapters in and I'm hooked. I want to flee my office and hole up somewhere, like a junior high bathroom or maybe a teenager's bedroom with tinfoil-covered windows and posters all over the walls (my high-school boyfriend's but without the boyfriend or the everpresent funny smell), and read it. Man.
Speaking of comic books, at philosophy group the other night, while discussing an example that Aristotle uses in the Physics (something about if a dog turns into a horse it changes qua dog but not qua animal), the participant known as Iphigenia said, "Worst example ever" in that Comic Book Guy voice. It was a great impression, even better because I would never have guessed that she could do it. I really admire the ability to imitate voices, probably because I totally can't. Thank god I'm dating a human jukebox full of Simpsons references.
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12:01:26 PM,
Thursday 24 June 2004
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(Background information: My brother and I often refer to coffee as "the blessed elixir".)
glossomania: Article about home coffee bean roasting.
my brother: you really should not have sent this to me
glossomania: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
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02:47:33 PM,
Wednesday 23 June 2004
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It's true, it's all true. _
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05:04:11 PM, Tuesday 22 June 2004
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Stupid cravings. I need a salt lick.
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05:39:28 PM,
Monday 21 June 2004
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"It's not easy having a good time": Saw friends, ate (very oily) Indian food, thrifted two shirts and a dress, and saw the local live show of Rocky Horrow with Melissa. I'd never been before, and was impressed with both this specific production and the folk traditions surrounding it. (Trixie! for one.) Also I played "Are you now or have you ever been a roleplayer" while watching the crowd. (Answers were "yes" and "yes".) Yesterday went to Thai temple brunch with out-of-town homie Abby and my brother. Then to the flea market (new cd binder! hat!), hiking, Buffy episodeson dvd and pizza. Watched the sun go down and came home, where I alphabetized my rock cds.
Waking up this morning kind of blew.
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12:15:54 PM,
Monday 21 June 2004
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A Father's Day piece: For the past two days I've been corresponding with my father, via e-mail, about ways to clean a mostly-skeletonized baby bird corpse. I think I caught the "dead things are cool" meme from him. My brother seems to be immune.
Speaking of cool dead things and my dad, here is the story of the mummified bat: Several years ago, when I was home from college for spring break, my mom drove me to the winery where my dad works so that I could pick up some cardboard boxes. She refused to come in because she was wearing dirty house-cleaning clothes, so I went in alone and met my dad, who was cleaning out one of the lab's refrigerators. Just as I got in he pulled out a freeze-dried bat corpse in a plastic bag. Evidently, several years ago, he'd found the dead bat on the winery grounds and decided to keep it, so he'd doused it with alcohol, wrapped it, and stuck it in the freezer. We spent several minutes admiring it, and then he told me I could take it home, but that my mom wouldn't want to know about it.
I hid it in my bookbag on the car ride home, and then interred it in the back of the freezer, among some of the strange stuff that my dad eats and that my mom never touches. Periodically, when she wasn't around, I would take it out to show guests. It stayed there, unbeknownst to my mom, for about two years, until it began to decay and my dad threw it out.
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01:04:19 PM,
Friday 18 June 2004
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Yesterday I got advice on buying a swimsuit from a burly construction inspector. It was all sort of making sense until he said, "Don't get black or white -- get color, color's in this year. And you have to make sure it harmonizes with your skin tone, eyes, and hair."
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11:19:21 AM,
Friday 18 June 2004
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Sometimes it takes things a while to sink in.
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11:14:49 AM,
Friday 18 June 2004
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What kind of disease are you? sarah: | ||
sarah is caused by sponges. | sarah makes subjects desire sex. With lepers. To cure sarah, crossdress badly. | |
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06:12:40 PM, Thursday 17 June 2004
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I just called Plato a "sweetheart".
Shoot me now.
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12:42:34 PM,
Thursday 17 June 2004
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Nothing like a day on the town.
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01:06:04 AM,
Sunday 13 June 2004
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Speaking of photographs: "Punk's Not Dead But Reagan Is".
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02:41:36 PM,
Friday 11 June 2004
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Charming new picture of Damian and me, taken by Melissa from New York.
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01:57:33 PM,
Friday 11 June 2004
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From the package of a tube of lanolin I just bought (for non-breastfeeding-related purposes): "Don't let the discomfort of sore nipples interrupt this special relationship."
In other toiletry news: The jasmine-scented soap that Julia gave me -- my "special parts" are defatting nicely, thanks! but the company website has been rewritten by a native speaker, alas -- interacts with my linden blossom perfume to produce a gardenia scent. Odd.
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04:20:25 PM,
Thursday 10 June 2004
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Odd dreams. Besides the usual sorts of things (journeys that take me through movie-set versions of places I know, embarassingly open-plan bathrooms, membership in pseduo-military organizations) there was once scene that stuck out at me. I was in a large room, sitting on a bed, talking on the phone to someone (probably dream-Damian, certainly symbolic of my conscious mind), and looking out a large plate-glass window. Outside the window I could see a huge mountain, and above the mountain was the setting sun, right below the rising full moon (guess the Earth's rotation got a little mixed up there). I also saw what appeared to be a second moon, or perhaps a reflection of the moon, above and to the left of the, um, regular moon. Basically the room felt like the Tyrell Corp scene in Bladerunner.
My unconscious can be so heavy-handed at times.
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12:50:37 PM,
Thursday 10 June 2004
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Hurry up please it's time
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12:15:48 PM,
Thursday 10 June 2004
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Black humour of the breakup variety, courtesy of Emily Flake.
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12:20:10 PM,
Wednesday 9 June 2004
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What is the proper view of one's importance? Is there such a thing as too accurate a self-perception? If I saw myself as I really am (microscopic, dust mote, etc.) would I be rendered miserable? Hopeless? Incapable of action?
And I'm usually so good and explaining these things away.
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07:14:27 PM,
Tuesday 8 June 2004
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Last night I copied out this quote from One Hundred Demons (by Lynda Barry, Funk Queen of the Universe) that's been rattling around my head for a while.
"Babies always look good when they dance. They have something that is very hard to get back once it is lost and it is always lost... The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away."
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03:51:40 PM,
Tuesday 8 June 2004
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It's the most wonderful time of the year!: Pride flags are up on Market Street. Protesters got arrested outside the biotech conference this morning. I love this town.
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03:36:31 PM,
Tuesday 8 June 2004
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Two things that helped me feel less surly:
My favorite sticker artist, at it again, with:
God Bless America's Obscenely Wealthy.
A sign in the window of an office around the corner:
ROT IN HELL REAGAN
Sidenote: Am I a jerk for reacting to news of Reagan's death with, "Awesome!"?
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06:16:33 PM,
Monday 7 June 2004
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In one of my dreams last night (it was one of those uncomfortably-naked(ish)-in-public dreams, but anyway) I saw two women in a restaurant who looked like they could be Russian models, wearing cocktail dresses and well-trimmed moustaches. "Damn!" I thought. "Someone beat me to it!"
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01:37:16 PM,
Monday 7 June 2004
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Hilarious/depressing toothpaste today.
Also I went to Julia's Halloween Birthday Party this weekend, where I met her friends Justin and Jenny, and at which Moss traveled back in time (via a magic razor) to the years 2000 and 1998 and won the costume contest. (I guess my eyeliner-pencil moustache didn't really stand a chance.)
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12:34:46 PM,
Monday 7 June 2004
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Man, I am such an asshole sometimes.
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08:03:32 PM,
Friday 4 June 2004
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Retarded schoolchildren from Britan say: Don't Do Drugs. Via Blacktable.
UPDATE: The film has been taken down from its original location, but never fear! Your friend and mine, the famous Eexlebots of Subrevolt, has made this fine cinematic work available for downloading.
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02:16:48 PM,
Friday 4 June 2004
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Newish Get Your War On: "You know what thought woke me up at three in the morning last night? Rumsfeld, Feith and Perle are actually more incompetent than they are evil. How the hell is that possible?"
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07:31:12 PM,
Thursday 3 June 2004
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An entry about birds:I walked along the lakeshore on my way to the farmer's market today. There were several snowy egrets stalking around in the shallows, staring forward in their intense fashion. I like to watch an egret rouse small creatures from the lake bottom. He steps one foot forward gingerly and gives it a sort of shiver, sending up a plume of mud into the water. Then his head darts forward into the water and -- if he's lucky -- he comes up clutching a wriggling somebody in his beak.
There was one larger egret hanging around, which is a bit unusual, a few cormorants drying out their wings between fishing trips, and the usual plague of canadian geese. They've been raising a bumper crop of goslings this year and I've often seen them feeding at dusk in a big flock, guarded by several adults who hiss menacingly if you get too near.
No seagulls today. A pity, because they're so comical when they strut around, squawking, with their beaks pointed downward.
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05:04:53 PM,
Saturday 29 May 2004
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See, I haad this clever entry all written up about the pros and cons (mostly cons) of losing my voice, and then this STUPID MAC ate my work.
To sum up: very lame indeed.
I'm going to go watch Buffy now.
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10:30:52 PM,
Friday 28 May 2004
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Best song, played on prettiest guitar.
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12:13:44 PM,
Thursday 27 May 2004
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My life has improved significantly since I started going to Sleater-Kinney shows. I recommend it for everyone!
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12:56:38 PM,
Monday 24 May 2004
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