Today marks ten years that I've had this lj. Can we call it my most successful relationship? Yes, sad. Go me.

All caring was risky: you exposed yourself. It was better to be like this than the other. I was justifying myself. With the sun out. In the summer. (26)

We remember in envy, not regret; what we are now needing the past for its colour, tolerance. We know all this. The dangerous men are those with no memory; the ancient babies. Wisdom is a bit of ( Read more... )

4-door, white ’99 Honda Civic EX

I'm sure this is only interesting to me, but I like the story of how I got the Ghost Car because it involves me being an overly informed, ridiculously careful shopper. I had had a Volvo 240 station wagon, a beautiful burgundy piece of indestructible machinery that I had started learning to work on. Eventually it ( Read more... )

So tired. Wasting my time online, reading Post Secret as I do every late Saturday night, and now perusing the Verse Daily recent archives because I haven't kept up in months. A few things have been striking me. Maybe I'll sit up and try to write for awhile. But here's this, by Mary Ruefle:

Why I Am Not a Good Kisser

Because I open my mouth ( Read more... )

Knowing that at least one copy of my book is in Australia, I kind of feel like I've been transported into the future. It's been 2011 there for a little while already, you know.

I am cleaning my office. This entails going through bits of paper, many of which hold words I'm meant to look up. Current words: philtrum & periphescence. Yes, I have a dictionary on my desk, but it's usually so buried. So buried. It is also bulging with pieces of paper under its cover. This also entails examining notes and trying to figure what ( Read more... )

If Ashton Kutcher is preparing for the apocalypse, does that make me seem more crazy or less?

From the morning's paper:

"Whatcom County could see a mix of rain and snow as early as Tuesday night, Dec. 28.

Because the precipitation will be showery, it's difficult to pinpoint where, when and how much snow will fall until shortly before it happens, according to the National Weather Service.

What is for certain is the cold air mass heading ( Read more... )

I think it's good! I don't want anyone to ever read it! I will go to the movies to celebrate! And then look at it again and probably hate it tomorrow ( Read more... )

Done and done. The experience of the test was strange. The part I didn't study for (the writing) and which I was worried about went (I think) really well. I just babbled for as long as I could about legislating morals and then about the other one. I had decided going in that I had three things I was willing to talk about and that I would just make ( Read more... )