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Tomorrow I will legally be allowed to buy and consume alcohol. Tonight I had four banana margaritas. Oops.

(And now i’m going to go get stoned and watch Jesus Camp. Can life get better? No.)

yeah, she went there.

Truth: feeding a plant menstrual blood is not as easy as one might think.

beautiful

I’m taking a grammar in language class this semester (because I needed credits and registered late) and the following are just a few sentences that I have to parse for homework this week:

“The five Albanians found themselves on the wrong side of Bosnia during the shelling.”
“Helsinki is full of offbeat charm”

and my personal favorite:

“The beauty of a taco lies in the eyes of the beholder.”

a quick note on leisure

Working Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday evenings at the school has really made me come to appreciate the freedom of Wednesday and Thursday evenings. (Fridays and Saturdays have obviously always been appreciated in the sixteen years I’ve been in school.)  It’s been wonderful just to come home home, instantly remove the pants, and chill in my tiny home. Usually I just read and/or do some homework, eat something extremely unhealthy and processed for dinner, and then spend mindless hours online. Quite lovely really.

the little things

tonight’s highlights:

1. while on break at work and talking to L.A., two tiny toddler raccoons rushed past me, playing, and ran down the steps outside the nearby building. absolutely adorable.

2. after work went over to a new girl friend’s to study for statistics. ended up eating pizza, glancing through our textbooks for about 15 minutes, and then playing with makeup. evidently it is possible for me to wear red lipstain, who knew?

(taken with horrible camera phone of course)

6

Self Evident (WTC Poem) by Ani Difranco

yes,
us people are just poems
we’re 90% metaphor
with a leanness of meaning
approaching hyper-distillation
and once upon a time
we were moonshine
rushing down the throat of a giraffe
yes, rushing down the long hallway
despite what the p.a. announcement says
yes, rushing down the long stairs
with the whiskey of eternity
fermented and distilled
to eighteen minutes
burning down our throats
down the hall
down the stairs
in a building so tall
that it will always be there
yes, it’s part of a pair
there on the bow of noah’s ark
the most prestigious couple
just kickin back parked
against a perfectly blue sky
on a morning beatific
in its indian summer breeze
on the day that america
fell to its knees
after strutting around for a century
without saying thank you
or please

and the shock was subsonic
and the smoke was deafening
between the setup and the punch line
cuz we were all on time for work that day
we all boarded that plane for to fly
and then while the fires were raging
we all climbed up on the windowsill
and then we all held hands
and jumped into the sky

and every borough looked up when it heard the first blast
and then every dumb action movie was summarily surpassed
and the exodus uptown by foot and motorcar
looked more like war than anything i’ve seen so far
so far
so far
so fierce and ingenious
a poetic specter so far gone
that every jackass newscaster was struck dumb and stumbling
over ‘oh my god’ and ‘this is unbelievable’ and on and on
and i’ll tell you what, while we’re at it
you can keep the pentagon
keep the propaganda
keep each and every tv
that’s been trying to convince me
to participate
in some prep school punk’s plan to perpetuate retribution
perpetuate retribution
even as the blue toxic smoke of our lesson in retribution
is still hanging in the air
and there’s ash on our shoes
and there’s ash in our hair
and there’s a fine silt on every mantle
from hell’s kitchen to brooklyn
and the streets are full of stories
sudden twists and near misses
and soon every open bar is crammed to the rafters
with tales of narrowly averted disasters
and the whiskey is flowin
like never before
as all over the country
folks just shake their heads
and pour

so here’s a toast to all the folks who live in palestine
afghanistan
iraq

el salvador

here’s a toast to the folks living on the pine ridge reservation
under the stone cold gaze of mt. rushmore

here’s a toast to all those nurses and doctors
who daily provide women with a choice
who stand down a threat the size of oklahoma city
just to listen to a young woman’s voice

here’s a toast to all the folks on death row right now
awaiting the executioner’s guillotine
who are shackled there with dread and can only escape into their heads
to find peace in the form of a dream

cuz take away our playstations
and we are a third world nation
under the thumb of some blue blood royal son
who stole the oval office and that phony election
i mean
it don’t take a weatherman
to look around and see the weather
jeb said he’d deliver florida, folks
and boy did he ever

and we hold these truths to be self evident:
#1 george w. bush is not president
#2 america is not a true democracy
#3 the media is not fooling me
cuz i am a poem heeding hyper-distillation
i’ve got no room for a lie so verbose
i’m looking out over my whole human family
and i’m raising my glass in a toast

here’s to our last drink of fossil fuels
let us vow to get off of this sauce
shoo away the swarms of commuter planes
and find that train ticket we lost
cuz once upon a time the line followed the river
and peeked into all the backyards
and the laundry was waving
the graffiti was teasing us
from brick walls and bridges
we were rolling over ridges
through valleys
under stars
i dream of touring like duke ellington
in my own railroad car
i dream of waiting on the tall blonde wooden benches
in a grand station aglow with grace
and then standing out on the platform
and feeling the air on my face

give back the night its distant whistle
give the darkness back its soul
give the big oil companies the finger finally
and relearn how to rock-n-roll
yes, the lessons are all around us and a change is waiting there
so it’s time to pick through the rubble, clean the streets
and clear the air
get our government to pull its big dick out of the sand
of someone else’s desert
put it back in its pants
and quit the hypocritical chants of
freedom forever

cuz when one lone phone rang
in two thousand and one
at ten after nine
on nine one one
which is the number we all called
when that lone phone rang right off the wall
right off our desk and down the long hall
down the long stairs
in a building so tall
that the whole world turned
just to watch it fall

and while we’re at it
remember the first time around?
the bomb?
the ryder truck?
the parking garage?
the princess that didn’t even feel the pea?
remember joking around in our apartment on avenue D?

can you imagine how many paper coffee cups would have to change their design
following a fantastical reversal of the new york skyline?!

it was a joke, of course
it was a joke
at the time
and that was just a few years ago
so let the record show
that the FBI was all over that case
that the plot was obvious and in everybody’s face
and scoping that scene
religiously
the CIA
or is it KGB?
committing countless crimes against humanity
with this kind of eventuality
as its excuse
for abuse after expensive abuse
and it didn’t have a clue
look, another window to see through
way up here
on the 104th floor
look
another key
another door
10% literal
90% metaphor
3000 some poems disguised as people
on an almost too perfect day
should be more than pawns
in some asshole’s passion play
so now it’s your job
and it’s my job
to make it that way
to make sure they didn’t die in vain
sshhhhhh….
baby listen
hear the train?

in memory of those who are no longer with us.

meme-age

tagged by the lovely trixie…

Four First Names of Crushes I’ve Had (in chronological order):

1. Justin
2. Andrew
3. Chris
4. D. (hah)

Four Pieces of Clothing I wish I still owned:

1. All my legwarmers from pre-school
2. Ditto for my tiny suspenders-and-polka-dot-skirt combos
3. Patchwork quilt skirt from Goodwill
4. My black marble plugs that are somehow lost

Four names I’ve been called at one time or another:

1. Sweetpea
2. Pancake
3. Eeyah Beeyah Katie
4. Weevil

Four Professions I secretly Want to Try:

1. Editor
2. Go-go dancer
3. Clothing designer
4. Professional napper

Four Musicians I’d most want to go on a date with:

1. Jeff Tweedy
2. Dean Martin
3. Ani Difranco
4. Ben Folds

Four Foods I’d rather Throw than Eat:

1. Carrots
2. Olives
3. Anything pork
4. Triscuits

Four Things I Like to Sniff:

1. A certain person’s deodoranty armpits
2. Mint plants
3. Puppy bellies
4. Cigars

Four People to Tag:
Oh, go tag yourself.

does this make me obsessed?

I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, so a few weeks ago I finally took the time to organize my books by color:

oh.

so yeah.

on   a scale of 1-10 drunkeness,i’m probably an eight. aaaand D. is probably a ten.

good thing idon’t have class until 1pm tomorrow.

“goodnight dear void.”

autumn, because my love for you is “autumnatic.”

(oh King of Queens)

So fall semester began today and I’ve gone to half of my classes. I have two on Mondays/Wednesdays – Statistics for Sociology and Soc. Theories – and two on Tuesdays/Thursdays – Feminist Theory and Grammar in Language. Statistics just might suck as I am pathetically similar to the “Math is hard” Barbie but I’ll push through. I’ve had another class with two of the people in statistics so maybe we can have a study group (not that I’ve ever been in a study group before.) Soc Theory should be pretty awesome though; my teacher is also my advisor and notoriously funny/laid back. Instead of making us buy a billion dollar textbook, he took the time to scan all 20+ readings and burn them onto cds for each student. My friend from Stats is in this class too, so again with the studying. I think that 10-15 students are in both classes… I guess I’m at the stage in school where I’m officially stuck with certain people haha. Shouldn’t be too bad, at least these people are more likely to take the classes seriously because we’re mostly juniors and seniors. (Side note: fuck, I’m a junior already.)

Anyway, I’m sitting here in Starbucks at the Student Center and am in a fabulous mood. Somewhat because I splurged on a delicious raspberry mocha frappuccino or whatever it is, but also because apparently I missed the, er, “hustle and bustle” of the school semester. It was nice to have the school and town somewhat to ourselves over summer but I do like the crowds and noise and excessive people-watching that goes on during school sessions. I’m off to work now but I’ll write more as the week progresses.