i've been away from livejournal so long that i can't even begin to read all of the entries i've missed. for one thing, the "previous 15 entries" link on my friends page only takes me back a couple of weeks at the most. so, if it happened any time between late august and two weeks ago, and you haven't told me about it in person, sorry folks, i don ( Read more... )

( if bus systems were included, the list would be longer... )

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i'm enamored with stone fruit. delicate, tender, ripe with possibility; a single seed, earthy, impossibly large, undeniably present.


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i fold my hands and they don't feel like my own. my fingers feel thick, awkward. i make fists and my skin feels tight, my joints stiff, but i also notice a strength i didn't expect, surprising because it's my own body ( Read more... )

so, big surprise, i've been working a lot ( Read more... )

some of you, i know, may have been experiencing a bit of unpleasantly humid weather lately. i offer to you one consolation: you can be thankful that you don't have my job ( Read more... )

if you'd like to read a country-western style ditty i wrote, inspired by my family, you're going to have to check out my other blog. i won't always do this, i'm just trying to drum up some enthusiam. all in the name of janet.

today i watched a man lay belly down on the sidewalk, dip his head to a dirty street puddle, and rinse his mouth and face with murky, garbage-strewn water.

sleater-kinney broke up.last week, walking home from work through the west village, i passed a woman with an armload of pride flags: "GET READY GET READY GET READY!" she cried, and it was amusing at the time, but i should have thought to heed her advice. somehow, without attending a single official nyc gay pride event, i managed to suffer many of ( Read more... )