i heart racoons!

"First of all, I love books. When you can lend a website to a friend, when you can take it on holiday, when you can fold it up and put in your pocket, when you can scribble marginalia, when you can get suntan lotion and sand all over its pages, when you can admire it as an object, when you can hurl a website across the room in disgust, then maybe I ( Read more... )

i'm coming to a stark realisation: i need to learn how to call people again. the prospect is daunting. at least for right now i have an odd italian novel to entertain me.

oh ze...new years party was interesting! i kissed a lot of people, which is all i really care about on new years. why do i call it new years? because it's actually new year's eve, perhaps? i suppose. people came to our house, and also left. i was going to follow caitlin to her party (not least because she forgot her gin here and wanted me to ( Read more... )

i like days like this. i'm waiting, basically. waiting to do what i want to do before the party (this includes eating solid food, showering, cleaning my room, going to mel's house (ugh), the liquor store, various and sundry). i'm in no rush and i've downloaded musics (i'm listening to the new decemberists's's's right now... so good!). i didn't ( Read more... )

In 2007, ( Read more... )

i've started classifying people as vice do's or don't's. i saw an old man with an amazing hat and coat and my mind immediately framed him in a picture as he was smiling, crossing the street ( Read more... )

a lymric that some guy bob (jono's dad) was drinking with told us:

a do-it-yourselfer named alice
used (some) dynamite for a phallus
they found her vagina
in north carolina
and part of her anus in dallas.

i can honestly say that that was the first christmas i spent puking. i managed to keep some liquids down around six pm, i think. josh and peter stayed over (from christmas eve), so they, bob, and drew( jono didn't get home from work until four thirty) were watching star trek and drinking beer ALL DAY while i moaned in my bed, barely having enough ( Read more... )

i love it when i pleasantly surprise myself with food. tonight i made a ministirfry (because when i make big ones i never finish eating them and then they go bad -- like that bowl half full of rice and vegetables that i found in the fridge yesterday. let's not talk about it.) with no rice. i had no sauce so i put some peanutbutter, soysauce, ( Read more... )