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All right, things are happening. To fight the possible relapse of depression and to exercise the husky/golden lab who miraculously fell into my life, I have been taking hour-long walks about five days a week. On these walks I've been listening to audiobooks. Many, many audiobooks. Add the amount of books I regularly read to the mix, and heck - it ( Read more... ) -
Intent
I have never seen anyone enjoy a cigarette as much as my client, S. She gets one cigarette a day, and makes it last for as long as possible-only about two puffs each time, rubbing the cigarette on the ground to get rid of the cherry. Her smoking is languorous, but heavy with intent. She lights the cigarette, then brings it to her lips slowly; she ( Read more... ) -
Breaking traditions and curses
Recently I started a project, and like many of my projects, I don't know if I will finish it. Still, I am making the effort. At Mañana, there are beautiful block prints from Nepal, and I really like the dragon prints. A few months ago, I met a new coworker, and when we hung out, I was floored by how similar we were: our values, beliefs, reading ( Read more... ) -
Two doctors walk into a coffee shop
A would-be doctor of medicine is sitting perpendicular to a would-be doctor of primates. The first is writing out scenarios for a presentation in class, while the second is reading The Tiger's Wife and mentally preparing herself to dive into the proposal that was delayed by her collapse at the university (she is fine, by the way - it was in fact ( Read more... ) -
To my credit, I've also lactated
When I worked at Butterfield Acres Farm, I learned a lot about different animals and how to coax or coerce them into the back of the truck for a farm corral event. The milker goats were the best. "The thing about milker goats," my coworker told me, "is to push them in the opposite direction that you want them to go. If you want them to go forward, ( Read more... ) -
Not quite haunted
It's a strange experience to walk the campus of my undergraduate university while going to my graduate class. The last time I was here on a regular basis I was depressed, I had no self esteem and this made me gravitate towards men who didn't care about me or feel the need to treat me well, and I had no concrete vision of any kind of future. I get ( Read more... ) -
The things our noses never forget
To fight off the bizarre anxiety that descended upon me so suddenly when I got home from my parents' house and dim sum, I decided to clean the drawers of my upright dresser. I found old jewelry, bra straps, hand lotion, nail polish remover, and then I found the lip gloss I borrowed from Kate but never got a chance to return. Behind it, I found the ( Read more... ) -
Unless, of course, you believe in alternate universes
Isn't it interesting to know that, regardless of how ordinary we feel, each of us is the only person in the universe who can live their individual life, regardless of where it takes us. -
"Are you familiar with the concept of not being a dick?"
I just spent two hours in a coffee house next to a loud and obnoxious businessman. Every time he finished a call (about every 5 minutes) he would slap his hands together and rub them as vigorously as if he had two sticks between them and was trying to light a fire. I resisted the urge to tell him that there were enough hot gases in his head that he ( Read more... ) -
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Question: If I tried to sell Boutros, Yinny and Zeke's naturally molted feathers (tail feathers, wing feathers) as cruelty-free supplies for jewelers, and then took all the profits and donated them to animal rescue, do you think anyone would buy them?