May 2004
- May 2
- blogging on my feet
this is surely not good for my joints. i currently don't have a seat, so i'm just blogging on the fly, trying to sort some things out.
· Read more… - May 4
- lorem ipsum dolor
Do those of you eminently familiar with desktop publishing tools, especially fonts, recognize this? Or am I hopelessly alone in this piece of mindless trivia, acquainted only because of my brief affair with Quark XPress and Adobe Indesign (nee Pagemaker) and the subsequent hunt for Truetype fonts that looked good when printed on a press coupled with my serendipitous bout with Latin in high school? Man, I have problems.
· Read more… - May 4
- self evident truth
I recognize full well that desperation is not attractive.
· Read more… - May 8
- prince of persia — the sands of time
I don't know how this popped into my head today…I have this weird recurring vision of a character riding a comet into the raging fires of the sun (the way that guy rides an atomic bomb in "
· Read more…Dr. Strangelove ) and I'm trying to turn it into a story somehow. - May 11
- a wrinkle in time
I haven't thought about this book in a long time, despite the number of ideas it spawned within my addled brain, and despite the bizarre synchronicity swirling around this particular point in spacetime.
· Read more… - May 19
- thermodynamics and relationships
Contrary to the claims of my friends, disconnecting my Internet connection at home has failed to improve my social life. In fact, since I also don't have a T.V. anymore, or a phone line, and I'm not really sure that I'm still receiving mail at my erstwhile place of residence, I'm rapidly losing touch with any semblance of "reality" (whatever that may be) and I don't know when anything is supposed to happen anymore. Since I don't have my computer on almost 24-7 anymore, I'm not even sure what day of the month it is half the time.
· Read more… - May 19
- time traveling
(Some random scrawlings that I can't seem to make coherent)
· Read more… - May 21
- wind in the door
I have decided to speed through Madeleine L'Engle's
· Read more…Time Quartet (which starts off with A Wrinkle in Time[Amazon ][previous blog entry]) The first three books were written in the '60's and '70's (pretty much before I was born) and the level of biological knowledge inA Wind in the Door is kind of intriguing. For one thing, it gives me some insight on my own uninformed assumptions about the history of molecular biology. Considering that Rosalind Franklin just discovered the structure of DNA in the '50's by X-ray crystallography, I imagine that the electron microscope was pretty damn new in the '60's. While mitochondria are visible by light microscopy, for some reason, I imagine that molecular biochemistry was not advanced enough to figure out the precise mechanism by which ATP is created by these little symbiotes. - May 25
- last days in this city (cont.)
The brief sojourn in the City by the Bay left me exhausted. I've taken two red-eyes now ever since I vowed never again to take a red-eye. Nothing beats rolling in at 5:30am, to the drear of false dawn creeping behind the Sears Tower, above the lake.
· Read more… - May 30
- suicide by chatroom
Wow. This is extraordinarily bizarre. A 14-year old kid tricks a 17-year old into trying to stab him to death. How fucked up is that?
· Read more… - May 30
- like a thief in the night
So the end of the month approaches, and I need to evacuate my apartment. Which is a problem since I haven't dispensed of various unwieldy pieces of furniture.
· Read more… - May 30
- hope (or the lack thereof)
"Hope!?" X spluttered, anger and confusion mingled. "Don't tell me about hope!"
· Read more… - May 31
- hypochondria and hoarding behavior
I woke up quite anxious at 5am today, with what felt like a hot flame searing the inside of my stomach. This is rather unexpected since I have been taking Zantac 150 milligrams twice a day religiously.
· Read more… - May 31
- crap, crap, crap!
The question for today is: How the fuck am I going to get rid of all this shit?
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