I'm in New York City, for the CCCC conference, for the writing center. I remember years of hating this place, of hating its filth and being scared of its homeless people and being scared of its violence statistics and hating the number of people and hating the way everyone talked about it as though it were amazing and... everything ( Read more... )

Ridiculous. Today, I tried to pick up Andy Johnson. I'm bad at estimating, but Katie said Andy probably weighs 250 lbs. I weigh approximately 140 lbs. It was bad news. It is ridiculous because now I am hurt. My back hurts a lot, actually. Katie keeps calling me an old man. She's right ( Read more... )

Hours awake: 1.75
Pages written: 1.3

fuck yeah.

I wrote about a third of this in the last three or four hours. Work on my thesis is back in session. whoot! Comments would be appreciated ( Read more... )

An approximate transcription of a recent conversation ( Read more... )

Two days ago, Kit and I had dinner together and watched a movie. I made her my spinach-roux thing, and she made a salad and this dessert she knows. (The dessert is wonderful. It's sticky rice with coconut milk on top, then chopped mango on top of that. Delicious.) We watched Kontroll while we ate. It's an Hungarian film. Chandra had told me about ( Read more... )

I know this is late. But here's my 2006 list of things to do before I die. For those unaware: I write one every May (or in this case, before the year is over) as a record of who I am and what I'm interested in ( Read more... )

Today, I bought new shoes. If I had a digital camera, I would take a picture of my old shoes for you. They were very sad and dejected. But now I have new ones. They are brown. They are snazzy. They are not Chucks, but they have other things going for them. Like, I can wear them to fancier functions than I can Chucks. They're thicker than Chucks, so ( Read more... )

I am drinking english breakfast black tea from a mug with a sun smiling at me from the lip. I don't like sunlight, but I like this sun ( Read more... )

Today, it snowed. Rock on.