sure enough…

a rotating Wall Cloud has been spotted in the northern-west portion of the State of Connecticut.

That man with untreatable TB looks like a nice guy. Like you’d see him at a cookout and be like, “oh, there’s Andy! I like that guy!”

I have a lot of guys like that in my life! I wish all of them were women. I would never be able to choose. what a lovely problem to have.

got thunderstorms today. and it’s still dreary and raining and i’m keeping the lights off and a candle lit, being cave-like. i think i’m re-fueling.

probably a good idea.

* If you can’t be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

-from a forward my mom sent. made me laugh.

so i went to sleep at 5am. just woke up now at 2:30pm. called out of the radio job via email around 4am, since i knew i’d be useless…

still groggy. glad i have the day off.

nights (mornings) like this, i kinda wish i kept the other half of my couch. whenever i used to have a hard time sleeping, i’d turn the news on low and fall asleep on the couch. but now all that’s really left of it allows for lounging, but not full-out, stretch your legs sleeping. i brought my blanket out though, and one more squishy pillow… see if that works.

momo has his own chair, my grampa’s old chair. it’s funny, you’d think this cat has owned it the whole time.

i had a great day today. plane crashes and all.

still can’t sleep.

i can’t sleep again, god dammit.

wonderful, wonderful day.

so i was up pretty late last night, as the last entry shows – it was a tough night of a surprise heart-to-heart i had with myself. those are always fun and useful and helps me evolve a bit. went to bed late, woke up at 12:30 (awesome!! I feel 16 again!!), and minutes after being up, my tattoo artist, Alana, calls to tell me that – surprise! – i have an appointment booked for today! Both of us had no idea. so i tweaked lunch plans with a friend for later, and had more work done! This thrills me to no end because this girl is ALWAYS booked. appointments are usually a month and a half to two months spread out. so i’m psyched to have had more work done!

more photos are up on flickr, as usual…

and in a little bit, i’m heading out to Solomon’s house to have some of his home-made beer and watch these plane-crash documentaries!!! Nothing morbid, just purely educational. You always hear about plane crashes, but no more information than who died. how it happened, and the whole story, will be awesome. i love learning.

so! got ink, gonna have a night of good friends and beer and plane crashes and live to tell the tale. doesn’t get too much better than that.

start using your time

you knew what real love felt like before-
why?
so you could recognize it later.

see it by its limp
and hopeful posture

you knew love
ageless
whatever happened to it
you knew it when it was there
so you could recognize it later.

being all illusions anyway…
no switch is ever forever nailed up into the wall
two sides of hammer tells the story
pretty thoroughly
just as hard out as you,in one swift declaration,pressed it in

must’ve been holding my breath a long time
to halluncinate the way i’ve been

between me and a towel rack and the bathroom lights
and whoever else passed by
i haven’t signed the papers yet
because i don’t have any
i do have black lined tropic of cancer eyes the whole way across
my face a perfect outline
hot to the touch, private and raw

has nothing to do with beginner’s luck
just
shame on you
shame on you
you knew love so you could recognize it later
not do this with it.

some things are melting now
slouched inside the brace
changing all my colors
cleaning all my air

i could wait forever
so i won’t.

start using your time.

Hell hell!

Looks like i was published in Yahoo News’ “You Witness News” a while ago! I’d submitted, but wasn’t sure it got in. Sho’ nuf!!

Me on You Witness News!

wheeeee!

i slept through the night!! i slept through the night!! I’m thrilled. And much thanks to Jonatha for the legal drugs she gave me to do it. ah. awesome.

i woke up, actually, to the sounds of a marching band right outside – turns out that i live on the Memorial Day Parade route! I’ve been living here for almost 4 years now, and i’ve never been around for the parade somehow. So without even peeing, i rubbed by eyes, put some clothes on, and ran outside to my 2nd floor porch with my long lens, and stood by taking pictures of the whole thing, from a great view. I sifted through and cropped away and uploaded a few to Reuters, with hopes of getting published again. The more on my resume, the merrier!

Just made tea, and have a few hours to kill before work. it feels nice to have gotten REAL sleep, and to have woken up just in time to be holding my camera to my face all morning. awesome.