Hey - while I'm in Korea, I'm using a different blog:

iamadventuring.blogspot.com

Feel free to check it out and write me.

Change of plans. Change all plans. Plan anew ( Read more... )

Drapes of purple puffs, deceptively light, oppressively virginal, blue and velvet wrapped in tin foil and soaked paper towels, old womanish, with long manicured nails and teeth that remind me faintly of cats and cigarettes, her fingers clacking with rosaries. Hail Mary, Our Father, Hail Mary, Hail me, blue lady. Weighted lady. Goddess, sage, sex. ( Read more... )

Oh Anita, Anita
With white tennis shoes
With print of the cheetah
And loud racist views

Your googly eye
While you 'meow' like a cat
While you whistle and sigh
I'll take you out - stat

You studied torture for years
You're practiced and true
I'm close to tears
And you don't have the flu

Oh Anita, Anita
You love God and tell it
But you drink margarita
And then ( Read more... )

My online internet radio keeps switching between swing/jazz and heartland country. Art Blakey and Brad Paisley are an odd pair. They co-exist in uncomfortable noise making, ho-humming as one tries to speak and is interrupted on accident by the other. Ho-hum, thinks Paisley. Isn't it interesting that both our last names end in "ey?" Art shifts his ( Read more... )

I'm going to Japan!

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. writes:

In 1968, my father, running for President, addressed in a speech, the White House's proposal for a troop surge in Vietnam. Robert Kennedy had initially supported the U.S. intervention in Vietnam. Forty years later, as Congress and the White House debate the further escalation of yet another war that has already claimed ( Read more... )

I'm sitting behind the desk at my new job. I made a name plate that is very homemade. I like it though. It makes it look like I actually work here. Which I do! I work here. I am an extra help secretary to Assistant Dean Thompson in the ACES Academic Programs department. I think the Dean likes me. He calls me a "real woman." And he likes the work I ( Read more... )

Bad karma to leave up a sad post for so long.

Plus, now I can't be lonely. I've got Anita. (And she's making cat noises. Special.)

More on my new job later.

I hate being lonely.