I've found my new favorite song and my new favorite singer.

Way down among brazilians ( Read more... )

Charles.

So 8 years after my last appointment, I went to the dentist yesterday... and survived! No cavities, but I need to start flossing. Plus, I have two wisdom teeth in and the only reason I would need them taken out is to make cleaning easier. Hah! I also now have spaces in between a few teeth that haven't been there in a while. That's a little gross to ( Read more... )

My dad has bladder cancer. 11.

I had a dream with an almost BSG plot line running behind everything ( Read more... )

The wheel was not enough to set me free,
nor fire, nor the harsh arrow, nor the harp,
nor commerce, nor the laws of Archimedes,
nor Euclid's measure, nor the microscope,
nor the wings of metal in the shrunken sky.

If I were finite I could speak the word
telling my doom. But I am infinite,
and have not grown the doom yet, nor the tongue.-DB Laing ( Read more... )

Today I came home to a piece of my ceiling in the bathtub. I called the management company, I cleaned it all up, I paged Ramon (though that never works).

Why now? Why is it all right now?

This month has been very deadening. I keep moving, but it's like swimming in glue ( Read more... )

In the past two months, I have run into three people in the black ring cult. One I graduated with who lives here now, one who lives on the 2nd floor of my building and graduated in 2001, another that will graduate in 2008 and recognized my ring on the subway.

After three days and a weekend away, one of the guys at my morning coffee shop knows me. We haven't said much to each other. Just a slight nod from him as I walk in the door before turning to make my drink, so that it's ready by the time I've exchanged money with him. On Monday, I said more to him than I've ever said before or since. "So you ( Read more... )