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There's this Song
by Michael Jackson that I loved when I was a kid because it was part of the Free Willy soundtrack ... it plays at the end of the movie against all the pictures of Free Willy swimming bold and free in a sun-streaked ocean ( Read more... ) -
Just got paid
... in the glorious amount of $775.83. On some level, I'm sure it's uncouth to discuss one's salary but it has to be remembered that this sudden abundance follows months of financial famine. Yay money! Sweet pursuit of possession and material meaning, I embrace you ( Read more... ) -
A dream
In my dream last night, I was driving down the road and suddenly this guy darts out and pulls me into a garage where there's a lot of chicanos in bandanas underneath cars that look like they've been rusting for years and a circus elephant. I don't need any garage work I insist and leave (but I do get to pet the elephant). So I'm driving and ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
When I was driving to work today, I saw on the opposite side of the street a car slow down and pull abreast of a woman who was jogging ... having been hollered or honked at almost every time I've run on Avenida Cochise, -not because of the devastating sex appeal of my large t-shirt, baggy running pants, or scrunched-up socks, but simply because I ( Read more... ) -
This is what Rilke says
"The highest form of love is being the protector of another person's solitude." I'm not sure if I totally understand or accept this, but it has an intuitive sort of resonance ( Read more... ) -
Apologia for the melancholia of last post
Today, I got to ride across Ft. Huachuca in a Stryker. Yeah, see where the big gun is. See the hatch next to it. That's where I was half-sticking out of ... with a helmet thingy with big ear thingies and a mouthpiece. We had to drive it to a helicopter testing facility up in a canyon. The wind blew. The sun shone. I surveyed the world from ( Read more... ) -
go spurs go
I got here on Sunday, slept for the last three hours from some derelict little gas station into the city limits of say-town. When I woke up, my ipod was still playing, on some song from Boyz II Men I think, and I was in the back seat ensconced in sleeping bags with the cold air rushing on me, B and Yo were in the front, and I had the most pleasant ( Read more... ) -
The Week-end
Today I'm going hiking with Yo. We're going to hit somewhere new in the old Vista. Tomorrow it's up to Tucson to move all my stuff out of my apartment, clean it - the terrors! - and return the keys. Then Sunday headed out to the San Antonio around 4 in the morning ... -
I Love Lists ... in a very anti-neurotic, completely non compulsory way
I love my job. Today I couldn't log onto my computer, so I spent about an hour complaining about bureacracy with my boss, then I drifted over to the red and white tower and chilled out in the pit under the tower for an hour with Dave, Gary, and Frank, while they tried to enlighten me about antenna testing practices and the function of a spectrum ( Read more... ) -
Two Adjectives
Because it seemed like a good conversation sparker, I asked everybody at dinner last night what their two adjectives would be ( Read more... )