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Tuesday, May 31, 2005 so thrilled it's summerish 3 out of the past 4 days I have spent planting Jeremy's yard. Soon there will be an abundance of spicy lettuces, various hot peppers, tomatoes, and cucumbers. Also, the parsley and fennel, although not for us to eat, will attract the swallowtail butterflies which will lay eggs that will be brought inside, spun into more butterflies, and released.       #2: tomato patch; #3: pepper patch more on flickr Then it was BBQ with the family, and Jonica birthday brownies. Thursday, May 26, 2005 domesticated animals for the second day in a row Dude puked on the livingroom floor. And knocked over some of my shit while going crazy jumping around and screaming for food (and waking me up) in the early morning. To express my gratitude, I wrote this haiku. nothing but needy you will never get a job or help me clean up. And the follow-up: yes you can be sweet and you love my hair so much but you're annoying. Everyone's all into their pets. I'm so over it. Other people's pets are fine. I just want plants. Wednesday, May 25, 2005 gambling for hens I wonder if I will be a good gambler. Soon a bunch of us will be going down to Atlantic City for Amanda's bachelorette party. I have never gambled at a casino before. I imagine that I will be skilled at the card games, as I played a lot of card games with my grandparents as a child, and they were quite good. This speculation about my gambling potential led to a conversation between my sister and I where I recounted to her that even when our grandma was at her senile worst, if we played cards, she would still remember exactly which cards had come out already. Priorities? Conditioning? Whatever the case, I loved that woman to death and even now, years after her passing, I still miss her like crazy.  1999-ish Jonica refers to bachelorette parties as "hen night", which is carried over from when she lived in England. It's less of a mouthful than "bachelorette party" for sure. In other events, the album du jour of both Colin and myself is The Faint's "Wet From Birth". Soon we will cruise around Brooklyn in his car, blasting this and perhaps various Pulp, Peaches, and The Rapture, and act like the gay eurotrash that we know we were meant to be.  photo courtesy of PawnGespielt Tuesday, May 24, 2005 wet meat  On Sunday Sherry & Theo had a BBQ which was fun but it was raining so we brought the tables and chairs and prepared food into the hallway and chilled there. The grill and the smoker people still had to be outdoors. The chicken skewers were divine, as was everything else that I ate. The rainy air hurt my poor little pressure chamber of a head, and so the lamb and mahi mahi were enjoyed without me. Thursday, May 19, 2005 about face From this afternoon until October 26, Neptune will be retrograde. With Neptune's retrograde, logic falls to the wayside in favor of esoteric interests and intuition. People begin to pay more attention to their dreams and explore more creative outlets. Neptune is the Planet of Illusion and Make Believe, and we may see shifts in film and television or entertainment media in general. Lately all I want to listen to is The Faint, Nina Simone, Oscar Brown Jr., and Fats Waller. One of these things is not like the others. Tuesday, May 17, 2005 eustachian My eustachian tubes, which drain the ears, are blocked and there's fluid trapped inside. This is why I've been dizzy, had constant pressure in my head, and haven't been able to hear out of my left ear for 2 weeks now. I thought it was just bad allergies because I had only mild ear pain and no fever, but yesterday I couldn't take it anymore and finally went to the doc, who found my condition to be more serious than I had imagined. Now i'm on antibiotics and a bunch of other things and when the pressure in my head finally releases, I am anticipating that it will feel like an epiphany. The eustachian tubes are named for Italian anatomist Bartolommeo Eustachio. I was bored while waiting for the doctor:    Monday, May 16, 2005 karma The 'D L I Die' email list (former employees) has apparently been revived after a long silence. Last week I went to discuss my calc prof's lack of teaching ability with the chair of the math department. Sherry is getting a bengal tiger with the large fee waived. I really hope that karma really exists because it seems that I am inclined to take action to improve things that do not necessarily affect me (at least not any longer). Energy consuming. Sometimes I wonder if it'd be in my best interest to be more selfish. Like, when I spent 6 months of my life going through all sorts of stuff in order to take D L I (former employer) to task at Dept of Labor court. A benefit of my winning was that I was able to collect unemployment, but the greater satisfaction was that I was able to set a precedent which could potentially help future employees, while also really sticking it to a bunch of assholes. Now that my math class is over, I am not seeking a grade change or anything, but it makes me cringe to think of a cycle wherein class upon class of students are subjected to the hell that is an educator who is completely incapable of educating, so I went and did something about it. Sherry was fostering a pregnant kitty whom she aided in giving birth the other day, and that same day, the woman with the bengals that she had been wanting so badly but couldn't afford called her offering her one for free. I haven't personally seen any direct evidence of the fruits of the good karma that I have earned, but perhaps if I had not done the things I had done, I would be totally screwed. some from saturday.     Saturday, May 14, 2005 summertime begins to roll When the weather is nice and it's Saturday morning, I go out walk around. On todays expedition, with such beautiful weather and uncongested streets (pics below), I couldn't help but feel blessed to live in such a gorgeous area (while also jealously salivating over the spacious homes and yards of the locals) and was reminded how silly it is that people pay such large sums of money to live in areas that look and smell like the color gray. And in any case, my building is plenty gray, so the colorless/lifeless quota is still met. Certainly I am a born and bred city girl, which is probably part of why I have no need to be in the midst of the citified atmosphere at all times. Also, since my little brain is inclined towards slow rumination, the unfettered time and space to meander alone is often helpful and relieving. And only 7 subway stops to Canal St. Over the past 2 years I have noticed that the local natives are looking increasingly similar to me in age and background. Gettin' with the program.    Last night's partay to warm Rock's home. Good food and good company. Rock!    Thursday, May 12, 2005 pollen Bad allergies and the medication that remedies such conditions are akin to necessary, unplanned drug trips, sometimes of the psychedelic kind. When my allergies are so bad that I can't hear very well and feel underwatery all the time, I am far less present than usual and must seem completely in outer space to the people around me. And It doesn't say on the box that the Claritin OTC is meant to make one loopy, but it certainly does in my case. And Benadryl puts me in a weird haze and then to sleep better than anything intended for such purposes. But overall, as much as I enjoy altered states of reality, I'd really rather not have these allergies. Wednesday, May 11, 2005 replacement Kind Sherry gave me her former phone that takes pictures with which to replace my broken one. And it comes with some of my friends' numbers already in it; how novel. Now I just have to activize it and figure out how to use the darn thing. Upon fetching this phone from her, I discovered that Sherry is well on her way to becoming a pop star! Back in college she found the diary of some sad, friendless girl where every entry is written as a letter to Michael Jackson (no kidding). Now, with modern computer bad pop music production technology, she is setting it to music, and it sounds quite good. I've been tired a lot, but not necessarily able to sleep the night through. I think I'm depressed in a deep way but not in a way that is topical or detectable to others over a short period of time. I have lost motivation. Sometimes things feel apocalyptic. It's difficult to focus. I need not any sympathy or extra attention. Just writing it how it is. Tuesday, May 10, 2005 something old I've got folders upon folders of photos which I've never posted, some of which are totally worth it. Like the following, which are from approx a year and a half ago.    Sunday, May 08, 2005 yo mama ALERT! My phone is partially broken. It actually works just fine, except that the screen now looks all tripped out complete with fractally brain thing, as pictured below. This means that I cannot see my address book, and so I cannot effectively call most people unless I have their number on my person or in my head, or have memorized exactly what buttons to press how many times and in what order to get to them. This also means that whomever sent me a text message yesterday, I was able see that I had one, but no way of knowing who sent it or what it said. The phone insurance company cut me off after replacing my phone twice last year (first breakage, then loss), but I will find a way to get a replacement soon.  In other events, you'd be silly not to check out Barra Libre's rehersal set which they recently posted online; and the Zug-Moore/Soria clan are off on their trip across this land called America. To kick things off, yesterday Caleb got down with the bartender at The Gate.  Happy Mom's Day. Thursday, May 05, 2005 black street hooker/cheerleader tally?  I took this at my local ghetto video store with the huge separate room of porn (which I have never dared to enter). This was posted up by the counter, behind the glass. While the dude was getting me my change, I managed to snap this shot real quick. It's not clear because it was done on the sly and through thick glass. I have no idea what the chart pertains to, but it's certainly intriguing. The dudes who own the video store are a pair of nice older russian men. Monday, May 02, 2005 melanoma monday Today Holly went to the dermatologist and reported back that in the world of dermatologists, this very day is referred to as "melanoma monday". Then she joked: "just another melanoma monday" to which I replied: "wish it were sarcoma sunday?" Yes, it's bad ...but you totally chuckled. Sunday, May 01, 2005 greener pastures; keep the cosmic trigger happy Now the hellish birthday week with the 2 friendly and 1 familial celebration and lots of schoolwork is pretty much over. Awesome. I got a few cute gifts including the Vanderbilt/Bjork/Swan Princess swan necklace, a cool 'Life' rock, 3 well chosen records, a yoga mat with a nice bag, a slew of rainbow colored blank audio CDs, a new internal hard drive, and a few other things. Amanda and Colin wrote me 2 very sweet, identical cards where they referred to me as "the dark haired sister we never had" which means that biologically and by close association combined, I have four paler sibs. ...and for those who do not know or who are concerned/curious as to the events of my day of birth this time around... I got my big marketing project done allright (although there was more that I wish I had the personal resources to use towards it before it was due). I already had most of the info gathered, but still can hardly believe that I assembled 16 rather cohesive and attractive pages on my birthday, while sick, stressed, and while Rah smacked his skull on his way to work and the hospital provided him some staples in the head. At this point I am not so sick anymore and Rah's head seems to be doing allright, although it's clearly disconcerting to have staples in one's head. They should come out soon. Random... some favorite words of late: nonplussed verisimilitude vermiculite triumvirate it's that kind of week, I guess... And some pics from the past few days...     
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