I can say 'your mom' in Latin.
- Candace, your letter will be in the mail shortly. It is very... well, I started it at 9:00 this morning and finished it in 4 separate classes whenever I could manage to not get caught. In it, I complain about a professor, attempt to explain my reaction to "I do not love you as if you were salt..." by Pablo Neruda, only to realize that the feeling that I am describing is actually that I am hungry, and confess that I am not in love with my best friend at SB. Which is a confession, as in, something bad that I need to admit, even though... actually, I'll just let you read the letter, since I already wrote it and everything. Haha.
- ‘tuam matrem’ in Latinā possum dicere. What now (Quid nunc)?
- I need funny pins for my bag. Because I bought a few the other day- one says “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings- I was aiming for your balls.” Then there’s “I have no idea what I’m doing out of bed.” Plus a chinese-looking symbol, and the english translation “Fuck off.” And finally, a rainbow one that says “All Families Matter.”- anyway, I bought 4, and I want to put them on my bag, but the problem is, when there are only 4, I don’t like them. I feel like if I have a collection of pins on display they should reflect who I am as a person, and I get very self-conscious of each pin if there are only 4. So, I need more. Suggestions/donations?
-If she does it like this, will you do it like that? Yeah if she touches like this, will you touch her like that? And if she moves like this, will you move it like that? Shake shake, shake shake, sh-shake it.
- Katy is not a very usual name- er, not in spelling, anyway. I was re-reading Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson, and surprise, there’s a Katy. Surprise, she’s a lesbian. I have heard of two other Katys spelling their names that way- one is gay, and the other is Katy Perry (the one who sings ‘I Kissed a Girl,’ for those of you lucky enough not to know that). I am debating informing Katy of this.
- I probably would’ve like the movie ‘The Color Purple’ if I hadn’t already read the book, and didn’t know that it could have been 80 times better.
- My Native American Religious Studies professor is apparently very well-respected/basically famous in the field. This is what my T.A. assures us as a class every section, when she is trying to work some discussion out of the professor’s lectures that do not involve telling all of us exactly how we are wasting our lives. Don’t get me wrong, I agree that our society is overly material and disconnected, I just… got that the first lecture, and I still don’t know anything about actual native american religious customs, which is what I wanted to learn when I signed up for the class.
- There is a common trend in every single book we have read/are going to read in my Women’s Studies class for the rest of the sememster. I want to talk about the trend but I have just tried unsuccesfully for ten minutes to phrase the question in such a way that doesn’t make me feel like I’m being ignorant and offensive. So I’m not going to.
- I’m not in love with you? Oh my god, I’m not in love with you. …Isn’t this supposed to feel like relief?
- What is this casual dating thing that people think of, and how on earth does it work? (Um, what is this dating-of-any-kind thing that people speak of… and how on earth does it work?)
- Something has come full circle. I can’t tell what it is, but there is definitely a cycle and I definitely recognize this view. Fortunately /unfortunately (?), I only recognize the view on the pretty part of this circuit (because I only remember the good parts?), and so at times when I can see how it works, I have no desire to change it. Besides, attempting to change it usually causes something which feels pretty much like the cycle kicking me outside and making me sit there until I get cold and bored, and then I come back in anyway. Or maybe those are the parts of the view that aren’t pretty, and that I therefore don’t recognize as parts of it. I don’t know. But anyway, it’s come back to this point again and I am going to let it be for as long as I can. Because this is the easy part, and this feels something like a home. And sometimes if I let it be, it feels like it lasts longer.
- I hate rings. I like this ring. Thank you.