okay. I'm going to write that paper about tracking that is due at 7 pm tonight. yes I have work from 1-5. yes, it is 9 AM. yes, I am a procasti-monster. but while I was procrastinating I stumbled on some really scary websites about weight and I felt the need to discuss this ad nauseam ( Read more... )

Today I feel a little like shit.
I feel like I have all these expectations
of myself and others
have all these expectations of me
and they're like little balloons filled
with helium attached to
the steel box I live in, and here I am

unable to leave
unable to fly.

If you are human and breathing you probably wonder either formally or informally nearly everyday "am I happy?". We assess ourselves; we change jobs, lovers, hobbies, friends, toothpastes, in an effort to become happier. This happiness is dependent on expectations ( Read more... )

Wild Geese ( Read more... )

Contemporary Liberal: Someone who holds that legislation in the US ought to favor the least advantaged in our society because social conditions can reduce liberty by creating an un-level playing field.

Remind me again how to trust a person. Send me a map with arrows and dance steps on it, or a dotted legend for treasure, or something with longitude and latitude written up the side so I can get an actual orientation. Show me the how-to guide that we all wrote when we were first in love: young and naive. Put a post it note on my frontal lobe, or ( Read more... )

"The women I work with don't realize that they are human" one of the Cubans visiting for a week tells me. I remember this when the man with the cocksure eyebrows on the corner gives me a once over and continues walking past me. I remember this when I see the woman with sticks for legs, teetering at the light. My hands ache to touch her pale face, ( Read more... )

"I've never been married and I've never lived with a man", the waitress addresses two women around seventy years old who have asked her if she has children. "I'm still traveling and swinging off chandeliers; when I'm not doing that anymore..." she trails off. The woman with the hair like short, white quills asks her a soft question, and the ( Read more... )

Topic: Monogamy, Relationships, Jealousy, Possession ( Read more... )

"I believe in possibility
in the possibility
of possibility.
Of the world making sense someday.

The lump in my throat
that keeps coming back to remind me of my messes:
It only stays for a little while.

I'm a true believer.
And that's a fact."
-Virginia Euwer Wolff; True Believer