-
Stream of Consciousness
He got on the car at the near pair of sliding doors and walked to the far end-- the very end of the train, where he'd be desposited closest to the escalator at his transfer. Quick steps, sure, listening to an MP3 and carrying a notebook with an unfinished thought holding its breath on the page, he noticed a girl, sitting just opposite the seat he ( Read more... ) -
To arms, two arms!
Because of the aforementioned injury to my right arm I have mainly foresworn excessive mouse and keyboard use indefinitely. However I thought it quite worth mentioning that today I was fiddling with a drawer / shelving unit which had kneeled off its two front casters, and the amount of attention given to my right arm during this process blinded me ( Read more... ) -
MoveOn.org's consensus agenda for the DNP.
- Health care for all
Okay, if we can pay for it, cool.
- Energy independence through clean, renewable sources
Not sure where the government is involved, but a good thing.
- Democracy restored
I was never fully convinced that Democracy had left the building, but the kind of weird shit that's going on with our government at the moment should stop. So check.
( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
And because it's an entirely different topic, my arm is blown. I'm wearing the wrist brace from when I broke my hand in eighth or seventh grade, and it doesn't fit very well ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
I guess Spring lasted three weeks before we went straight into summer, and the world has a certain glow that isn't the wet asphalt baking dry in the parted clouds. I don't know whether the fundamental structure of the universe changed (is there an unaccounted for constant ultimately and solely repsonsible?) or if it's just me, but the city is ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Today is the day I cannot catch a break. I left my wallet on the bus
and
I have a migraine but no pills
and
The pharmacy tells me I'm approaching the yearly cap for prescription coverage
and
Well, I got a few colonies. I have enough transformants, I think. It's just hard to think about. -
An ounce of wetlands
I'll try to get a picture of this from the train-- somewhere in the barrens of the West side, amidst the vacancies studded with blocks of concrete, is the depressed remnants of a parking lot, eaten under with bacteria until, after slumping in, it covered with windblown dirt and filled with water until, and I don't know when or how long ago, it ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
"How did the plane land right there?"
"Well, the island is like a.. magnet for sorrow!.. and.. planes."
---
"Wait, it's clicking, and it says "Obey" in the middle.. okay I'm going to click on one of the squares.. Oh God, it's Simon. It's a puzzle Liz."
"Do you win anything?"
"Yes, you win despair."
-
Shoplifting on a technicality
There was a sale on eggs the other day. There were two cartons left. Each carton had one broken egg in it ( Read more... )
