today is bailey's 10th anniversary. we drove from tucson to prescott to see if she would fit in with our family. her name was marina; she was the youngest of 17, and the runt. her best friend was the cat. she leaped up on me and then on aaron and we decided she would fit. she sat between aaron and i in the back of the trooper the whole way back to ( Read more... )

happy ncod!

not that i really have to remind much of anyone, (my parents notwithstanding, who may or may not receive the [old] news through t-shirts), but i'm gay. and my new tshirt says i'm a lesbian feminist vegetarian rhetorician.

alison bechdel tells it her wonderful way.

student worker. staff. the difference is changing from part and full time to be terms of authority. imaginably, without 40 hours a week to devote, i am unhappy. and why, when i did put in 40 hours a week all through the summer, is my studenthood also a sacrifice of status at work? alas, i wouldn't turn to sacrifice my studenthood for anything ( Read more... )

cryptic to-do list
- fix katharsis jumble
- decide! where is this going? maybe just start all over here.

ps
RE-READING IS NOT DRAFTING.
http://dhawhee.blogs.com/d_hawhee/2007/09/writerly-revela.html

movies
i wanted to see hurricane on the bayou, which sounds ( Read more... )

dear blog,
the exercise of writing has a disciplinary, organizing effect on my life. unfortunately, it also makes you the repository of anything i'm too interested in to let go of before processing it somehow. i therefore offer the following menagerie.
love, kendall

on seattle in july
But up here there's only desert mountains and the lily-pad circles ( Read more... )

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all this week i have passed in waves through the states of competent center of attention and despondent self-berating wreck. usually no one gets a look at the latter part. not even my counselor, this week. i told her about making it home in softball and about hammering out my insane schedule and about going tomorrow to d.c. travel. i hate to pack. ( Read more... )

on thursday rosemary thought her car had been stolen. her husband was getting his sister from the airport, and she was just trying to get somewhere safe. i told her our names and offered to call the police and to wait with her for the cops or for her husband. we did all these, and the husband and sister helped her actually find the car--still in ( Read more... )

such a day. i talked to maia for most of it; damn, do i miss her. she's in mississippi, starting skool at a big and scary university. she's living in a dorm and i'm going to write her a quatrain. she's avoiding her roommate and i'm recommending country albums. she's getting lost looking for the bookstore and i'm ordering pepper spray. it's tough ( Read more... )

from get me to the clerk on time, followed by the peak betrothal or betrayal. so witty and sensitive and sincere.

my comment at the visible vote 08:

It seems to me that of all the candidates who performed Thursday night, Dennis Kucinich is bar none the most sincere, authentic advocate we could ask for. Of course, that's not what everybody's looking ( Read more... )