last night at some point troy called me. it must have been at like three in the morning...something late, that's all i know, because i was already swaying with drowsiness and most of the call was conducted with my eyes closed ( Read more... )

1. Dr. Hrincevich has made me fall in love with biology all over again in the space of ONE lecture. I had forgotten how much I love understanding what my body does and how and why and what happens when you introduce this thing or that into its processes or take this thing or that away from it. There is so much to know and question and understand ( Read more... )

MAN THAT WAS A BLAST ( Read more... )

Trin and I decided to see if maybe experiencing them would change how I felt about Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, so first she showed me The Rain Song; then I discovered that Matt, whoever he was (the original owner of the iPod I have now) had every Led Zeppelin album already loaded on the iPod, so as I walked to the dumpster and to CVS today I ( Read more... )

tonight, i was curled up beneath my blanket, wrapped up in a book that is turning out to be amazingly engrossing; I had Nora Roberts completely wrong if I thought she only wrote sappy romance novels about brawny men and slender swooning women. after a time it came to my attention-- my body's first, in the form of a deep shiver-- that what i now ( Read more... )

 it rained today
the sky was a heavy cerulean blanket edged in smoky indigo, and beneath that a deep golden white,
and then the storm yanked off the mantle to reveal blooming variegated grays and whites and suddenly the universe pinpointed this city and flung itself artlessly in its ardor to the ground like a man to his prince,

and i stood on the ( Read more... )

there's something infinitely breathtaking about the way that watching people who live in other states-- other countries, even-- listen to songs that are playing on my laptop, in real time makes me feel. it's as if there are these great sprawling strands connecting us all in a massive web, just like my philosophy/theory about music, brought to life ( Read more... )

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i sing to you and drowsiness shimmers on your skin like layers of spun sugar crystal and in the back of my mind i want to touch my lips to it, just briefly, long enough to imprint it in the minute creases of my lips so that when the sun rises and all these beautiful shards reassemble into the big picture that does not include me i can lick and ( Read more... )

ACTUALLY.
I came back from swimming today and danced around a bit in my bathing suit because I feel weirdly good although naked in it even though it's a very modest square-cut black one-piece with cable knit pattern on it.

And as I was in the bedroom I turned because there was a weird noise outside and IT WAS RAINING jesus christ I was so happy I AM ( Read more... )