i've been staying up later and later lately, but my waking hours do not, unfortunately correspond to an increase in productivity...and tonight i'm antsy. i really don't work out compulsively, but being unable to do so makes me obsess. i want to go for a good, hard run; instead i'm nearly wearing a path through the floor in my study.

no more running for me for the next little while. the pain in my foot and ankle i though was just pain wasn't: three blocks into my run this morning my left ankle gave out. it's taking my weight again, but not without pain...& it's pretty swelled up. sadness.

she told him her story the only way she knew how, in stuttering fragments. he hadn't the vantage point to see the plotline until two weeks after he walked out the door.

derrida ("The Animal that Therefore I am") moves ever so slowly for me today: i managed only ten pages in about 2 hours & it's painfully humid, clammy almost in my apartment...

walking with zrblm yesterday through the exchange & back by way of st. boniface (for gelato) & the forks, we saw a couple of monarchs, which was pretty awesome: i don't think i've seen a monarch since i went to point pele when i still lived in windsor. in fact, i didn't even know that winnipeg was on the migration path.

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goddammit
still awake. again. always lately.
awake till four & up again at five thirty
& damn this had better give soon
er rather than later.
in the meantime
still awake.

from Michael Ondaatje's Divisadero"But the next day, standing in the meadow, he invites Anna to visit the trailer, and she hesitates, thinking the offer is a commitment on his part, even a tentative one. It implies too much knowledge of the other -- his home could be a capsule of the past or of a possible future. Her own hesitation at breaking ( Read more... )

every time i see someone with a really nice tattoo, i think, you know, self, maybe i should get a tattoo. so-&-so's looks absolutely fabulous. today, i figured out why this coversation with myself only goes that far: i'm super squeamish. i almost lost it watching 3jane get hers (which looks terrific, by the way ( Read more... )

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