I am sometimes amazed by how switching your perception can make something that, on the one hand sucks, turn into something that is useful and good. this is the magic of cognitive therapy, man. we can choose how we think about things, and therefore how we file them into the old mind-computer. instead of "how I got fucked over," it can be "how I got ( Read more... )

1. fresh kale, lightly sauteed with a bit of olive oil and salt, is one of the most delicious things ever ( Read more... )

I was so angry today. I don't like these days very much, the ones where every other thought in my head is a bitter one. I was just watching 30 rock on hulu, and there were these ads for the university of phoenix, which I gather is an online university; or, if it is a physical school too, then it has a huge distance learning thing going on. anyway, ( Read more... )

I miss you, livejournal. I might start posting on you again, we'll see.

it's saturday night and I am totally going to bed before midnight. and I'm excited about it. going to bed early when you can also sleep in the next day is pretty much one of the best things I can think of. this is the first time I've had a whole weekend to myself in at least two months, probably more. because of the international shipping debacle, ( Read more... )

I keep trying to think of words, and I can't find them...images are playing over and over in my head: the rejoicing at spellman and in harlem and in chicago...jesse jackson with tears streaming down his face...the obama family on stage in victory...I didn't realize how this would feel. I am 28 years old and can honestly say that for probably the ( Read more... )

the hot water came back on today, around 2pm. I had tried it this morning with no luck, and was totally not expecting it then. I turned the faucet on and let it run for a couple minutes to check, but when I thought the water seemed to be getting less cold, I wrote it off to wishful thinking. but then...could it be?...it got less and less cold, and ( Read more... )

we have had no hot water for two days, so we've had to sponge bathe. I definitely smell weird. and the internet is down, so I am stealing a wireless signal from the neighbors, using tricia's 1997 mac laptop with the wireless card. yup, it feels like 2006. I can't believe we handed over rent a week ago and we have no hot water.

um. on july 16, kimya dawson and ani difranco played a show together here in new york. and I was here then. and I was not at that show. and that kind of makes me want to vomit.

this is what I get for no longer obsessively checking tour schedules.

as liz lemon would say, blerg.

as a result of the fact that I stopped drinking, I have basically reverted back to all the stuff I used to do to release stress and pass the time before I started drinking in the first place. I write pages and pages in my journal just about every day. I walk all over the place, and sometimes just stop and sit, listening to my headphones and taking ( Read more... )