Dear Livejournal,

we never really talk anymore. we first met when i was in a really different place, and when you didn't have things like premium accounts, and i didn't know anyone with a blog.

so thanks for letting me process all that gendershit back in college, and let's keep in touch.

i'll still be around, so look me up if you want to get coffee ( Read more... )

mattio: in the future, computers will be so massive and powerful that only the richest and most powerful will have access to them!

me: the future is crazier than philip k. dick on benzedrine.

mattio: your phone is more powerful than the computer your parents got you when you went to college.

here's how my gender works these days:
yesterday i shaved with a straight razor from turn-of-the-last-century germany, and then got hard-sole swedish army surplus boots, with steel toe caps AND toe plates.

but mostly i run around the cemetary in heavily-patched skinny jeans and freakish kangaroo leather future feet.

zombie dreams last night ( Read more... )

so sarah palin's memoir came out, and people are talking about her on the radio a bunch ( Read more... )

if anyone's curious, Love! Valour! Compassion! is really damn good and will make you cry.

also, i'm in kinda a rut, and i think i'm burned out on philly, and about to be collecting unemployment.

a: take this as an invitation to bust out your rut-busting tactics

b: where should i go first?

there's a skyscraper in illadelph that scrolls HUGE brightly lit announcements about all kinds of random public events in 30-foot LED technicolor ( Read more... )

 once upon a time, i put off applying to wesleyan, the school that had everything i wanted, because it felt too easy ( Read more... )

good thing too, because my 22nd birthday su-ucked.

fall is here and it's a beautiful thing.
the pollen's a motherfucker, and cicadas are getting confused and flying into my face sometimes, but that's just because the air is moving again.

maybe i'll turn my birthday upside-down all the time. i think i could get comfortable between lammas and the ( Read more... )

 found life glue. 
life has been re-assembled.

in fact, starting friday afternoon and proceeding through the present, i have been feeling remarkably good about life.
is this hormonal?
partially, sure (p.s. if anyone really wants to have their period RIGHT NOW, let's hang out in the next 24 hours.)

ostensibly, the dalai lama once said something to the ( Read more... )