I've just moved into my old space in Providence, for either a week or much longer. I was desperate to go back to Belgium this morning, as soon as possible; I have a ticket back in a little over a week, but will do one more week of Organic Chemistry - which I first started two years ago, and quit before it was over because of visa things for my ( Read more... )

Yesterday I walked to the East Side of Providence and ran into a few faces, some that I've been seeing for years, one that gives me free crepes. Someone said that the snow everywhere - piles still child-high, giants in the parking lots - is going to be sent to the North Burial Ground. Once they tried to put it in the river, but besides overflow, ( Read more... )

1966 French punk

This fall I finished the third out of the five of the Dutch classes I need to be fluent, and started the fourth, but realized it might involve a nervous breakdown, and the pride of being almost-fluent in a new language in a year (though I was never a language-person before) was not worth it ( Read more... )

I accidentally found a message from my grandmother, the year before she died at 87 - here is half of it ( Read more... )

When I was an artists' model (the clothed ones, because I that's what I have photos of):

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I've just scanned almost everything I have that has not been lost in the Providence flood or sold, and there's several hundred images; but they aren't online yet. To get in the habit, I'm putting up an old one (that looks a little strange, something to figure out), that was in Morbid Curiosity for a story about excarnation and is on the arm of a ( Read more... )

How strange things are, where I am and why. I'm still not sure, at all, about being in Europe for the long term, even now that I'm a legal resident, after all that work to become so ( Read more... )

I started to keep a very strict schedule lately, weekends and all. So far, I like it. When I was a teenager, my dad told me how my uncle said I was a lovely girl but needed discipline, and had said not to tell me but my dad did anyway because he thought it was funny and that my uncle obviously didn't know me, since it didn't work. If my dad was ( Read more... )

11-11 is a holiday in Belgium already, so being here in a year might be okay. And if Wif (not Wim, my partner in daily life and more, but a friend in the village*) and I really join forces to make something happen around here, it might be interesting...we have worked together, with others, but this energy has been diverted a little. I don't want ( Read more... )