tom and i could star in a melodrama as both a) the young couple in love and b) the evil duo trying to murder them.

a . . . . & . . . . b


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so tom and i spent all of yesterday rearranging and cleaning and scrubbing and throwing away and bagging up for goodwill and hiding and storing. we didn't finish, there are still big bags laying about that need to be taken to various places, but all in all the skeleton of the apartment is finalized. ( so here's a video tour of my apartment )

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reading Embodied Progress: a cultural account of assisted conception for anthropology, laughing at every other sentence. in the history of the anthropology of reproduction, a major theoretician's name is Weiner. Giggity-giggity-giggity!

"Weiner observed that both mothers and fathers lavish much affection on the young."

"In sum, Weiner's model of

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working in the library, isolated, rhythmic, pushing the cart, picking up books, shifting shelves.

i listen to my portable radio, npr--depressing world news and classical music in my two hour block. remarkably good reception for a first-level basement between stacks.
[why is there less static when i put my radio on the bookshelves?]chopin concerto ( Read more... )

[ now i brush my teeth and turn off my computer to hear t h e r a i n . . . ]

i live in Northampton Massachusetts. This is Northampton.
(the dot is the middle of town, not me.)


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i'm putting a moratorium on livejournal-as-i-know-it soon. I think I'm going to order one of these (renee has one that i covet, it's got a lot of pages and lays flat like butter); when it comes in, no more real-updates. i want to turn my life/thoughts more towards real life, a physical written-note as opposed to this fake thing; talks on the phone ( Read more... )