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#53
Rode home with Mary in the shuttle tonight and realized how much has changed in the last month or so. Because s- is such a big school there are people, old friends, that I don’t see around for a really long time, and I had these conversations with them and now I’m having new ones and they’re all different. But she was asking me if I’m going for the ( Read more... ) -
#52
this is an awful analogy but I'm doing it anyway. I think the older you grow, the more you know how much pain you can take. like... popping pimples when you're young (I rarely have acne now so don't be too grossed out). it's a tiny, tiny amount of pain but it's still pain that you're inflicting on yourself, and when you first pop a pimple you don't ( Read more... ) -
#51
writing an inordinate amount nowadays. too much life going on in my soul that I want to get down on the page. it's been seven and a half hours and absolutely nothing has happened between when I last wrote and now. I cooked porridge (rice porridge) and dumped frozen prawns in it, ate some of the stir-fried potatoes I made yesterday, stole a bite of ( Read more... ) -
#50
Sometimes Gladness - by Bruce Dawe
Sometimes gladness crooks me like an arm
Adoro te or some more crazy hymn ( Read more... ) -
#49
just for posterity ( Read more... ) -
#48
learning that some things are more important than others and that there are real things to regret ( Read more... ) -
耳磨厮鬓
to put it gently: sad about leaving. attached and happy. still occasionally having to be careful with my feelings but more often than not I can let go of restraints and like him. my heart can be simple about this because we are both complex enough, and good enough - liking is simple, we don't have to play games, everything else we have to deal with ( Read more... ) -
#46
so yesterday he ate 烤鸭 and dripped sauce on his pants, and I teased him about it last night. this afternoon I noticed that he was wearing the same pair of pants and I took his bottle and attempted to pour some of it on his pants to wash it clean, and he evaded, I cornered him, and asked him if he believed that I would splash the whole bottle at him ( Read more... ) -
#45
right now there are two main questions that don't go away. the first one I never expected: are he and I really 配, are we both surprisingly fitted for each other? or is it just that we are two people who have amazing capacities to adapt to each other, to adapt to people in general, in Chinese they say 友好 but also just an openness to sharing and a ( Read more... ) -
#44
another birthday tomorrow ( Read more... )