I'm up late working on a story. Just now, as I was preparing to call it a night, a mosquito flew between me and the bright black-and-white of the word processor on my computer screen. It was just the right kind of background to give her that almost-there-ness that mosquitoes have when you keep thinking you see them out of the corner of your eye.

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"Actually," says Kata Lea Phillips, of the Seattle University Law Library, "'squatters' is just my name for them. They're really paying tenants." And that's the problem ( Read more... )

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The Economist has been running a lot of stuff about brain chemistry and psychobiology lately. Free will, happiness, etc. I almost studied that in college, but it was too depressing and I was obsessed with it already, plus neurobiology didn't really click with me whenever I did it in high school ( Read more... )

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For a few days, I've been showering with astonishing regularity. I feel the persistent grime of loss of appetite, fatigue, many precipitate and short-lived erections, urgent defecation, headache, sex, sweatiness, unfilled desire, sudden change of diet, aching muscles, so many flights of stairs, meeting old friends, dog shit on the ground, loss of ( Read more... )

So there's this dealy slowly making the lj rounds. I guess it's called a "meme." Putting that word in quotation marks makes me look eighty years old, but in fact I have no idea what it means or where it comes from. I am under the impression that they are considered kind of lame, because people often title their entries things like, "Sorry for the ( Read more... )

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