Eight months seems like a lifetime.
I'm not used to letting other people make me feel like this.
I was never this kind of girl.
(I can't adjust to sleeping alone again.)

I could get used to being told that I'm beautiful everyday. /shallow

What does one wear if one is attending a Black Tie Christmas Party with a Jewish guy?
(The Jewish part doesn't actually affect fashion decisions, it's just an amusing juxtaposition.)

Well, fuck, I might be getting attached.

Wednesday night I went to two parties, drank $50 wine and cheap gin & tonics, flirted with older men and went home with a younger one. That was a first, but he was the best I've had in a good while. (I didn't give him my number but he tracked it down - we have mutual acquaintances - and called me the next day. I found it strangely charming.) Still ( Read more... )

Some ways in which my life resembles science fiction: The street outside my house is lined with Ginkgo trees that drop their yellow leaves and yellow (foul-smelling, make a popping sound if you trod on them) fruit. It's been raining the past few days and the rain mixes with the sticky fruit insides and coats the sidewalk with a thick, muccus-y ( Read more... )

Cups of coffee drunk (since Thursday): approx. thirteen ( Read more... )

I'm reading a new translation of the Iliad, and I'm in great pain because I'm finishing. I'm right near the end, and I can't bear it. I chose the Iliad because, working on Brundibar, I'm so tired I can't see straight. I know the story of the Iliad; I'm reading it now for the depth of the poetry. I read two or three pages a night, like reading the ( Read more... )

Ways in which my life continues to resemble a David Lynch film: Yesterday while going for a walk with their three-year-old daughter my neighbors (in North Carolina) noticed a large number of buzzards gathered on the side of the road. Expecting to see roadkill, they looked closer and found a man's body.

It's not an ear, but.

Ran into my favorite professor today. She greeted me "Hi favorite student" and the day was instantly brighter. Woke up sick, can't get out of the fog, but my exam went well. I'm just barely keeping my head above the water work-wise and it's my own fault -- I can't have senioritis already, can I ( Read more... )