Kitty Hell

My cat and I are not on speaking terms.
I like her just fine (no, really), but she’s adopted an attitude that is rather snooty, even for a cat.
Which suits me just fine, really.
Since I have a decidedly Catholic cat, I’m fairly certain she believes in heaven. And I have a good idea what her vision [...]

The Carpe Diem Girls

So I met up with the girls last night. It’s been a long time, far too long, since the three of us were together. There’s such an energy there, I get giddy just thinking about it. There is something that hums inside of me, something that seems like it’s tangible when the three of us [...]

I’ve Succumbed

I am the worst present-wrapper in the world. Ever.
My squares, at best, look like rectangles and at worst like dodecahedrons. (I counted today…definitely 12 sides for that picture frame). My circles look like stacks of saltines, beaten for soup.
Yeah, I think you get the idea.
But I was humming. Humming! Me, the anti-gift person, humming [...]

A-O-Hell

Between papers, blogging, journaling, posting, and email, I write a lot. To read me, I think, is to know me, and it struck me today that I’d put money on the fact that my professors, after 2 years of reading my papers, know me better than my parents do, who have never read anything [...]

Insomnia

I can’t sleep. Hacking and sneezing and sniffling, I can’t sleep.
I’m in a rare mood: aching and hurting and oh, so grumpy. When I’m sick, I’m miserable, so I try not to get sick very often if I can help it.
I spent the day in a completely unnoteworthy fashion. I read til I fell [...]

Monday Masochism

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, but I’ve been inspired.
There is no such thing as Destiny or Fate,
Only Union–
Only the space in which one moment recognizes another,
The space in which one soul sees its reflection in the essence of another.
12-16-o7 D.L. Wolfe

Loving Presents

I had set my alarm for early. I had plans, you see. Big plans. Gigantic plans.
Plans that involved hair cuts and glasses repairs and, God help me, maybe even starting some Christmas shopping.
Even I can’t quite consider finding a gift for an anonymous person having started Christmas shopping.
Buying gifts, for me, is a lot like [...]

Dancing Moments

Sometimes I wonder if I go through life half-mad. Not angry, necessarily, but a bit past the reaches of “strange.”
But there are moments that show me that I’m not. Moments that, in the big picture are entirely trivial and yet the uncanniness of them spooks me sometimes.
The past few days have consisted of moments such [...]

Memory Lane

His eyes did funny things when they were pointed in my direction. They squinted, then widened, his almost indiscernible irises flashing. I had never before, or have been since, looked at in such a way.
It made me nervous and I stuffed my hands in my coat pockets, fidgeting out of sight.
And then he smiled, and [...]

Last Paper Down

I have a most disappointing sense of humor, I think. Adolescent, at best, infantile at worst.
I successfully finished my paper, and managed to insert the phrase “cock and balls” into a paper that had nothing to do with either.
On Hemingway’s novel, Fuller comments, “I don’t like any story where boy meets girl, it’s a love [...]