My professor asks me after class as we're walking in the same direction,
"Do you feel you've learned much from your research so far? Anything really interesting?"
And I say, "Well, I've figured out the cuneiform symbol for sheep. And some basic symbols for numbers and stuff."
"The symbol for sheep?"
"Yeah, it's been super useful to my life so far."
and ( Read more... )

I know she is telling the truth by the easy familiarity of her hand against the small of my back when I hug her. She presses just enough to bring me closer for a moment before releasing and informing me, "I've missed you."

I tell her, later this week, yes, I will see you, because we lived together for long enough that it is still confusing to see ( Read more... )

maybe i ought to tell people about things that excite me for a living
but good god i won't change what i have to say because they don't want to hear it
i clearly need to skip straight on to "grumpy old person".

just about a month ago now all the places i thought my life could go fell all to pieces because i couldn't hold them up anymore ( Read more... )

I can never sleep the night before I travel ( Read more... )

so I stared this blog and meant to update all the time, but everytime I think of something to update with, I use it for NanoWrimo instead.
Ha! Well eventually something at least vaguely interesting will appear here.
I can use it as a place to keep writing once WriMo is over.