today is the day I've been waiting for my whole life long... today my thesis is due ( Read more... )

now it's september. i have got hold of a really big watermelon and want someone to spit the seeds with. i could offer ice cream and beer too.
tomorrow late afternoon, perhaps 5pm, or during the week if you're busy. call it a party?

also, a man who loved art and ultralights died this week. once during his illness, after he could no longer speak or chew food, he joked that the lighter you are, the easier it is for you get your plane off the ground. i hope that this new lightness gives him the lift he longed for.

rip j.w. 1938-2005

This feels like the first day that has ever happened. Suddenly there is no precedent for anything. Familiar street corners become remote, thrilling playgrounds. I feel delicate and invisible, like a baffled space alien riding along in someone's pocket, like a tuberculosis-stricken heroine in the last first days of spring. Every chink in my body ( Read more... )

alright, there's no party today, but there might be one later. how about september? suggestions are welcome.

hello, virginia. if I were to hold a Nocturne this friday, august 26, would you come?

xs

differences ( Read more... )

Further geographical headline clippings, however uninformative they might be: I´ve just arrived in Brazil and will be here until August 17. 3 weeks in Belem/Maraba, 3 weeks in Recife, 3 weeks in Sao Paulo. I´ve no mailing address but will soon have a cell phone. Write me electronic letters and I will joyously write you solid ones. Let me know ( Read more... )

Is there any chance that someone could take me to Dulles Airport tomorrow afternoon/evening? I might be able to meet you at TJ (rather than my storiedly remote house) if that would help. I would throw in a nice picnic beforehand or at least some licorice if you're interested. We could, you know, catch up ( Read more... )

So umm, is anyone in nothern virginia now? because i am, for only tonight (and june 10-13). and i'm lonely and have no visa for my summer research and my parents are gone and i've no one to talk to. i want to remember those old virginia summers with someone. save me?