Long time no see my tomodachi! How are things? What's new?

Still alive. It's all starting to weigh very heavily on me though. Almost 30,000 people here are believed dead. How do you even begin to deal with that reality?

 Love hotels... as awesome as you've heard..

I'm so happy here, I really am. I've got a bunch of new friends, a possible love interest, and two amazing, interesting hobbies to pursue... And yet, I miss yall very acutely sometimes.

Monkey off my back. Now to continue focusing on surviving the day.

Because I need attention to distract me from pre-departure nerves: meme stolen from nimblnymph

Tell me what impression I gave you before we "met" and whether the reality was the same. In return, I'll tell you the same thing.

Also, tell me your favorite new Shakespeare quote. Let's show off how much we've learned!

I'd Want Her Eyes to Fill with Wonder
by Kenneth Patchen

I'd want her eyes to fill with wonder
I'd want her lips to pen just a little
I'd want her breasts to lift at my touch

And O I'd tel her that I loved her
I'd say that the world began and ended where she was
O I'd swear that the Beautiful wept to see her naked loveliness

I'd want her thighs to put ( Read more... )

Long one today....

I Would Like
by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

(  I would like to be born in every country, have a passport for them all to throw all foreign offices into panic )

Getting Through
by Deborah Pope

Like a car stuck in gear,
a chicken too stupid to tell
its head is gone,
or sound ratcheting on
long after the film
has jumped the reel,
or a phone
ringing and ringing
in the house they have all
moved away from,
through rooms where dust
is a deepening skin,
and the locks unneeded,
so I go on loving you,
my heart blundering on,
a ( Read more... )

Barbie Doll
by Marge Piercy

This girlchild was born as usual
and presented dolls that did pee-pee
and miniature GE stoves and irons
and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy.
Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said:
You have a big nose and fat legs.

She was healthy, tested intelligent,
possessed strong arms and back,
abundant sexual drive and manual ( Read more... )