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"love is so short, forgetting is so long."

1. palestine is getting the shit kicked out of it. this is all very fucked up. i could go into a rant about israel and an almost equally ardent rant about the left's blind support of palestine, but, for now, i am standing in firm solidarity with the palestinians, whose lives are being lost at disgustingly high rates ( Read more... )

Hi LJ-land. Long time no talk. My e-absence is mostly a result of me being ridiculously busy, but also me kind of wanting to literally die from this heartbreak I'm enduring and not really wanting to write about that ( Read more... )

1. martha stewart--(most prevalently in television and web form, although the magazine could be included too)--has been evoking my zeal for autumn, despite the efforts of those pugnacious heartbreak blues. my mood improves immensely when NBC is on one of the tv's at the gym and i can climb or bike to delightful crafts or delicious recipes that i ( Read more... )

I am clicking through a Rueters slideshow of events that took place on September 1st, 2008 in St.Paul, Minnesota. Many of them are very familiar to me, as I was just marching through those very streets 24 hours ago, but juxtaposed with the backdrop of protest and civil disobedience are snapshots of the people within the walls of the Excel Arena ( Read more... )

I promised daily entries, but that was proved chicanery and purely erroneous. I hope this newfound sporadic nature won't make you disconsolate....I won't play a malinger; I have no excuse, only that I've never been a daily-post kind of gal, and I apparently shan't start now. (PS, prosaically, if you will: using big words makes me want to be british ( Read more... )

28 june 2008the sun is hot when i walk to clark and north shore today. i take the bus to pilsen in a see-through white ribbed tank-top (preciously and ironically known as a "wife beater") with a black bra underneath and red lipstick to boot, headed to the chicago dyke march. cyndi calls and i adjust the black bandanna tied bow-on-top in my hair, " ( Read more... )

i was crying at work today. you know, because my life is falling apart.

my boss says, "honey. get your purse and your ID, we're outta here."

we go to a bar and cry over margaritas.

she tells me to love myself. i cry harder. she tells me stories of her own strength. i tell her she's an inspiration.

i have a good boss.