The human heart beats. And breaks. It’s a most curious organ.

I had lunch with Eric yesterday. He had contacted me, having ignored me for a month after I took my things and left. He wanted to sit down and talk, then canceled, and canceled again, and my stomach was tied in knots for days. So I asked him to please stop jerking me around, because I ( Read more... )

A friend of mine asked me to marry him last night. And move to Ohio.

He likes my brain, my body, and my brand of crazy, and said he would beg before I asked him not to. Ohio is not what I need right now. Nor do I need anyone to offer me a ring to prove that I am a worthwhile human being. It may take a little time before I believe I'm not a ( Read more... )

MU study finds quitting smoking enhances personality change

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I quit my job last night. I'm gonna miss those guys. Seeing as how I'm more of a guy than most guys, I fit in really well at my office. In terms of a sexual harassment lawsuit, they'd've been doomed, but it wasn't like that at all. I was the only female and it was the most diverse workforce I'd ever been in. And it was awesome. After quitting, ( Read more... )

 Did you know that there's a term for bombing past the point regarded as desirable? Saturation bombing. My brain is oversaturated in languages, but I’m not done trying to learn them. I try to sop up a few more coarse phrases interspersed with delicate spoons of grammar but I can feel my brain interacting differently with language than it used to. ( Read more... )

The rain followed me to Russia. The forecast predicts showers lasting two weeks, with a few days slanted toward cloudy or snowy. Doom! That’ll be almost two months of rain!

We decided not to register me at the police station because A) I got the invitation through a travel agency that I’m not really using and B) You have to wait in really long lines ( Read more... )

Imagine publicly owned property, of a sudden, after having the right to what had been in your family for generations. Romania had what you'd call a personal dictatorship under Ceaucescu, presented as communism. Well, communism was always a dictatorship. Imagine a state run economy, and no markets that weren't for peasants. Even potatoes and onions ( Read more... )

I eat too many arahides, too many markovs, and far too many Loto peanut puffs. But I'm stranded in the bedroom, hiding from the chain smoking Israelis. Who also happen to spend TWO HOURS in the bathroom. I was, how you say, displeased, at the continued sight of the bathroom door: closed but illuminated. And Ioana is still asleep, all cute and ( Read more... )