Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Today is a special anniversary. Three years ago on this day, on September 10th, 2005, some of my friends spread some gossip about me, which ended up causing a giant shit storm of drama. As a pretty passive, people-pleasing person, this was enormously aggravating and confusing. It hurts– it hurts my brain– [...]
Monday, September 8, 2008
Today I’m laying in bed, sick as a dog, but I’m typing in this here bed. That’s because we got a new laptop. I have never had a nice laptop before, to use as my own. A 17″ Macbook purchased at a considerable, compelling discount from our university store. Holy crap. [...]
Thursday, September 4, 2008
I was just looking through some photo archives to figure out when Richard and I moved to and from our house on the Hill, and I found this photo…
That’s me and my kitty Newpimp. Man, he’s so cool.
I know that everyone on the internet who posts pictures of their cats swears they [...]
Last week during therapy I was talking about the periods into which my life is divided. A common symptom of chronic PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) is that the patient automatically creates a demarcation line in their mind that separates life “before” the event, and life “after” the event.
In my case, since [...]
I used to like to write extremely weird and silly rhyming poems when I was in my early 20s… Years ago, my best friend Jen printed out a collection of poems I e-mailed her throughout 1999, which I wrote while I was bored in the library at the U of Washington, waiting between classes. [...]
Death…
It is so complicated– I could write pages about it. In those pages I would mention how relatively little death has touched me, which is primarily a side effect of not being close to many people, including my family… But it’s also a side effect of living in an upper-middle class urban area, relatively [...]
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Richard took this photograph of me at a 4th of July party. I’m doing my impression of an old crotchety man. (I have a cane because I sprained my ankle recently.)
For some reason, I love this photo… it’s one of those photos that I fantasize about putting on an artist’s statement, because I think, “This [...]
I had another dream about my stepmother last night. In this dream, she had gone shopping for me, and picked out some clothing necessities that I don’t currently have, which all fit me perfectly. She had even found me a perfectly fitting pair of pants (this is my clothing holy grail, since my [...]
It’s raining in Seattle and I’m cold and grumpy. Can you tell? This is a self portrait I drew a couple days ago when I was in a foul mood, for a Moleskine exchange project I’m participating in:
I haven’t drawn a self portrait in about 8 years– wait, that’s a lie– there must’ve [...]
I am back from visiting family in Florida.
Oh Florida, you are so warm. I think I have post-trip depression.
I’m not used to the feeling of being far away from family that I love. I’m not really close to my blood relatives or parents, almost all of who are in Washington. [...]