February 2012
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It is 2:30 in the morning
… I don’t think I’ll be sleeping anytime soon. Some guy just tried to break into my apartment because he is drunk and thought he lived here. I called the police of course, because I had no idea what he was doing but it scared the crap out of me. When they came and took him away, they followed up with me to let me know that he didn’t seem malicious, just very heavily...
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It’s getting to the point that I can hardly afford to live around here. My rent is affordable, but I had to give up a kitchen in order to afford living on my own. I tried to buy chicken breast for dinner this evening and it was $11.99 a pound. $11.99. I couldn’t do it. I bought thighs instead, and I won’t even bother to say how much those were.
I’m becoming an incidental...
I'm tired, and it's late
But it was raining and they just fixed the light on the street. It’s really dark out, and I am unable to see the sidewalk or the light itself, just a void of darkness. Rain was gathering on the edge of the light cover, and dropping into the darkness. The newly replaced light caught the edge of those raindrops as they fell, and it looked like scores of tiny shooting stars out there on the...
New fingertips in effect
Climbing tonight was fun because most of the bouldering is off limits until Saturday, which meant tonight became a top roping night! I warmed up on a 5.8+, followed immediately by a 5.11 and a 5.10. My next round was a 5.12, 5.10, and then we moved to the back crevice. I love crevice climbing. I pulled out a 5.11+ barely, just by the skin of my fingertips, followed by a 5.9. My last climb before...
I tried to add that those were my Great-Grandma’s opera glasses that just became my opera glasses. My Grandma was bewildered, but pleased by my evident excitement. So awesome!!!
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Sorry
Last night I dreamt there was a fight, a battle of some sort. I don’t recall the magnitude of it or what it was about, but as with most of my dreams, it came down to me and them.
They started maiming the rabbits, knowing full well I would choose to deal with the rabbits before them. I had to put the rabbits out of their misery so they wouldn’t suffer. This is one of those instances...
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It seems that everyone is a comedian.
Nurse: Sir, do you know where you are?
Old Man: You're the ones who brought me here, you tell me.
Nurse: Where's here?
Old Man: The hospital, don't you work here?
Nurse: Do you know what your name is?
Old Man: Says right there on the form, didn't you look at it?
Nurse: Do you know what year it is?
Old Man: 1922.
Nurse: Sir, do you know what year it is right now?
Old Man: Of course I do. 12.
Nurse: Who is the president?
Old Man: Me.
Nurse: Sir, who is the president?
Old Man: That colored fellow.
Nurse: Ah, I see. You're all kinds of funny. Do you have any allergies?
Old Man: Yes.
Nurse: Sir, what are your allergies?
Old Man: My wife.
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Super Natural Occurrences: Part 2
Later that week, we were still at the same campground. Maybe it just felt like a week to my young self; I think realistically we were only there for three or four days. It was after dinner, and my brother and I were riding our bikes, enjoying the nearly one hour of additional daylight we were allowed due to our proximity to the other side of the time zone. We rode fast, we always rode fast. We...
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Super Natural Occurrences: Part 1
One of the summers we went camping, we stayed at this absolutely gorgeous state park. It was the absolute nicest campground we have ever stayed at. The scenery was stunning, the bath houses were brand new, and each site was well-appointed and somewhat private. It was all that one could hope for in a campground. One morning, I arose and departed for the bath house, intent on taking a shower. It was...
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This afternoon
Found me sitting at my desk, wrapping up my work and feeling pretty okay about everything. I’ve gotten a lot done in the past day, in the past week, in the past two months. It’s a good feeling; getting things done.
I was drafting on my computer, something I don’t often have time to do these days. I was squinting at a corner, trying to evaluate some overlapping layers, when...
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It'll be handy when I'm fifty.
Tonight I climbed with the older crowd I hang out with now and again. Stu struck up a conversation, and somehow we got around to the topic of how old I am.
“Well,” he said, while looking around, “you drove here, so you must be at least eighteen”.
Indeed, at least. I didn’t take offense to it, but it was amusing. I’m not so much older, but he wasn’t off...
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I love
Practical jokes. If I hang out with you in person, chances are I will absolutely play a joke on you at some point or another unless I know you don’t like that. Also, you can judge if we are actually friends by whether or not I have told you the amazingly awesome half-hour long story about flamingoes. I won’t ever write it out because it’s much too long. Either way, as my best...
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I'm going to need new ones.
Fingertips. Climbing tonight was brutal; we mashed on the front wall first, accompanied loosely by the super-friendly Aussie with lax personal boundaries. After he left, we did the under arch and then I split off and did some work in the elbow (and on my elbows, I think I’m developing elbow callouses, by the way). We reconvened after I failed a bunch of times, and then we collectively failed...
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I worry
… when you leave. I don’t worry about being unfaithful; I am constant and true. I worry that when you finally return, I will not be found. You will call my name but I will have forgotten it, or perhaps changed it, and if you find me again I will be a small animal running wild in the forest. My hair will be longer and untamed, and my eyes may not recognize you. What if you forget how to...
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And it's no wonder I don't sleep well.
For the past three nights, I’ve been having a progressive dream. I started out with a group of fifteen or so, and my (unresolved, unrevealed) arch-nemisis has been dramatically picking them off, one by one. It somewhat resembles the last episode of Sherlock, where Moriarti is a step ahead at every turn. At the end of every evening just before I’m released into semiconciousness, the...
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Today is the second birthday/anniversary of my blog. I don’t know why, but I realized it last night. I remember why I started it and what I was going through at that time, and I think it’s really interesting where I’ve gone since then.
Two years ago today I made a choice. I don’t really want to elaborate. It’s a choice I’m glad I made, and the result of which...
And I can say
That it feels like Saturday night, even though it is Sunday. I could really use for it to be Saturday though; I am in no way prepared for tomorrow to be Monday.
Climbing tonight was intense considering that we did twice as many walls as normal and didn’t use any mats. I was both more and less brave than I typically am, and hours later I am feeling that in my gut.
There were snow squalls...
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The Architect Mentality
Here’s where I might get myself in some trouble.
It’s relevant now, in my life, that I express this opinion I’ve been nurturing for some time. I never cease to be amazed at the number of architects I meet that cannot, for the life of them, hear what someone is saying. These architects are so caught up in making a solution, realizing a vision, finding a way, that more often than...
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Yesterday morning
I saw a young hawk sitting on top of a light pole. He looked rather comfortable up there and as I passed under him, he tilted his head down in a regal manner and resumed looking outward. When you see a hawk up close like that, it’s easy to understand why different people all over the world view these animals as omens. Despite being young and somewhat fluffy, I just felt as though the hawk...
It's fun, you should try it
Task-on-task tasking.
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And so...
It looks like I’m going to be posting from the kindle for a while. I am less than pleased.
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I'm clever
... both of the neighbors below me (the woman who lived below me and the porch neighbor that lived below her) moved out, which threw off the heating system. In the beginning of the winter it would sometimes get up to well over ninety in my apartment, so I had my landlady come and she turned off my heat. Now that they're all moved out I don't have any heat coming up, and consequently, it's been quite chilly in here. It just occurred to me as I bundled under my quilt that I could probably turn the heat back on... which I did... it only took me three days to figure that out.
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Scraps:
Some of my neighbors had boxes of cupcakes at their doorsteps Monday morning. Not all of the neighbors had them, and I can’t figure out what any of them have in common.
Monday evening, all the doorstep cupcakes were gone, and there was a stack of different cupcakes in the entryway on the shelf for delivery packages.
-The mystery persists.
I have lived here for a year and a half and I have...
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So, I'm not sure if this will work any better
But I shouldn’t have to resort to using my kindle to post on tumblr.
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I almost forgot
Last week C invited me over and she made an absolutely stunning meal of marinated pork roast, broccoli and caramelized carrots. The only little thing was that the carrots turned out literally caramelized - as in they were encased in caramel. It was the funniest, cutest thing, oh man. And they were still tasty!
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Sad, really.
One of the interesting things about living downtown is that I am steps away from all of the bars. I am playing a game now - DWI or emergency responder as I listen to the sirens go up and down the block. Kinda makes me glad I’m not on the road tonight.
I just started part one of Tin Man
… I know, I know, I’m a few years behind. Either way, I want to meet, hug, and possibly marry the set designer. SO MUCH ART NOUVEAU. I thought my happy eyes were going to fall out of my head, I was literally squirming in pleasure.
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It reminded me
I just saw an ad for UNO, do people still play UNO? Apparently so. It did bring back a good memory though…
When I was much younger, my family used to go on two week long camping excursions every summer. The trips were generally to a National Park or something like that and after a day of hiking we would come back to camp, make dinner, wash the dishes, and then sit around and play games. UNO...
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Best discovery... in a long time.
I love plain popcorn for the simple fact that I can flavor it with whatever strikes my fancy. An ex and I used to make it all the time, and I really miss having a stove top to make it on. Recently, I read that plain kernels can be contained in a paper bag and popped in the microwave, so tonight I gave it a try. I flavored my snack with olive oil, garlic salt, and pepper. Oh man, So Good!! This is...
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So sometimes I wonder: If I’m just the exception to all of your rules, how is that supposed to last? When opposites attract from across a crowded room, they’ll do anything to get through, but after annihilating one another, what then remains to do?
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We know that time doesn’t exist in a straight line (nor a circle, despite clocks being round). Time is, like space, a different dimension. The subconcious knowledge of this fact is evidenced in the very structure of our language; you arrange to meet someone at a particular location in time, much like you arrange to meet that person at a particular dimensional location. If both locations...
She was forty five minutes late to the mid-afternoon, super important kick-off meeting because, as she explained, she had been at practice. No one even knew she was supposed to be there, or who she was, or what sort of practice might have run late.
Friday evening
… and I’m really too exhaustingly numb to do much. That being said, I think I shall purge my scraps from the week. After all, I never did promise anything more than scraps…
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It's not always something I look for.
In a big city like NY, or really any city for that matter, it isn’t difficult to find evidence of people struggling. There are people struggling everywhere in so many different ways and for so many different reasons, that it’s unfortunately convenient to become a little desensitized to it. While walking to a meeting this afternoon however, I happened to pass a rather old woman in a...
Today is Wednesday
Twenty hour days are kicking my butt this week.
January 2012
45 posts
That'll show me
I’m not very good at respecting my alarm in the morning. Fun fact: there are no clocks, watches, or permanently housed electronics in my apartment. My only clock is on my laptop or on one of my cell phones (I have both a work and personal phone). Either way. Due to my penchant for turning off my alarm rather than hitting snooze or actually getting up like I’m supposed to, I’ve...
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Come Downstairs and Say Hello - Guster
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Adventures in anonymity
This afternoon I changed my outfit five times. I switched my earrings twice, the second time because I was informed I was being cliche and pretentious. I worried about the temperature being colder than I anticipated, but left my apartment anyway. I rode the train in pensive silence, watching the sun set and the buildings speed by.
I ate my dinner quickly and without stopping, and my foot never...
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But tomorrow evening
… I’ll be at the McKittrick Hotel… I doubt I’ll sleep tonight which is apt, considering…
SO. MUCH. EXCITEMENT.
It works both ways
“Now I’m just a potillow. Oh god. A potillow. A potato pillow. A pillow made out of potatoes.” is what I said. When he left, he told me to “have fun, good luck fishing. I hope you catch a whopper…”
One of those evenings.