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Every time i see Donnan and Lin the talk flows from jokes to meaning and the sarcasm rolls inoffensively as we're friends. They always remind me of the eminent worthiness of being my person. It gives me support that their complements are truthful- but why so frequent? Do they know that just like them i can be somewhere unrealized but making the best? That i have a potential unfulfilled in myself- a lot to learn and only knowing my uninformed state? Or is it that my question about being single in our generation still stands and we are all standing single.
"Narcisissma, Narcisissma has no pride or delusions, Delusions, delusions make me turn my face But Narcisissma let's me find my place.
Narcisissma, Narcisissma is the pride of Pomona, Pomona, says she looks like me. But she will look like you when I'm set free."
-Don McLean.
Last night for dinner: slice of pizza with pomegranate seeds on it. Don't try this at home ladies and gents.
I spoke too soon when i said i could use trouble for now i'm left to pursue it.
The pitter patter of little blood droplets from a vein.
We had a blow Job this seminar. har-har-har! No really. Oy.
The ability to change your view or perspective in seminar is great after some judicious scrutiny. The sudden changing of your mind based on what's said in seminar alone and taken en mass to be true is just a pain in the arse.
Of course, i could be getting consistently more intolerant like the Hebrew God. On to Livy and the raping of women.
Duct tape bookmark, a knife made of butter.
You must go to the land of the dead o hero Odysseus to meet heros and go through hell to be one.
But yo, Circe, how do I get back?
Oh my, i'm in lust!
If garlic and ginger went together I’d eat nothing else.
Arin, an Annapolis transfer in my dorm was talking about her interview at the Oasis Café and amongst other weird conversations with the employers, how one manager showed her a little trick with a 5, 10, 20 and 50 dollar bill. Dan and I proceeded to the coffee shop to obtain at 10 and 20. Well it works but one must wonder that the architecture in America is all similar, and folding is a matter of making what you want of the paper.
I enjoy exchanges of institutions of command, pursuit and domination sexually but to command, peruse and dominate a relationship I fail to do or see the point in for myself.
Next birthday present to self: Nipple piercing(s).
The Aspens with their smattering of little spade leaves up top at the ski basin will turn soon- the first snow has fallen up there.
I haven’t stopped to whine yet. This way I find I get a lot more done in time. Just make your displeasure known in a curt and completely single phrase. Spit it across the table of dialogue like a gallstone and not a rolling marble.
Milky coffee can be a meal right? Just like powdered steak.
My ability to drink loads of strait gin is not so much toughness but a lack of taste buds.
How far does the artist take her gift? To the alter of a new and singularly unique life? To consecrate the bed of creation and bring a birthed to fulfillment. No clear old pointers in this way and I can’t just think it out and not act. The courage to succeed is scary. Success granted by others sucks at me. I puzzle in my stupidity quizzically. The lack of consistency here is an absurd actually reality. Will I write of star in my Epic poem? In the mean time the tension between literary knowledge and experience pivot in the curriculum.
In the 30’s someone said that St. John’s could very well be the seat of a new American intellectual revolution. What’s happened? Or rather, didn’t? I’m still waiting. Is America’s anticipation dead? Is apathy that alive and well?
People in Santa Fe don’t like issues. A pink triangle society here as opposed to one in Annapolis would be an ‘issue’ and I would be the gay flag waving dyke behind it, not Ariadne, a woman who happens to like women. No wonder I hardly ever wear a rainbow. I admit, I can now respect Pam for her pushing humanitarian efforts with Amnesty international, no matter how annoying or verbose, I take it with a few teaspoons of salt.
Last seminar, Psalms/Jonah, Nick sat at the corner of the table by Mr. Smith and pet his gold leaf bible the whole time.
Young, dumb, and full of cum. Just like the rest of ‘em.
Joel wants me for the part of Thor in the play he’s directing called The Nerd. I’ll get to run around as an 8 year old terrible little boy. Tehehehe. It’s been a while since I’ve acted and I do believe I’d enjoy this role. It’s not such a bit part so that it would take much of my time but a rambunctious one that’s distinct.
So I’ve been walking around with a square folded white handkerchief in my back left pocket (I work in a pizza kitchen, it gets hot, I sneeze and need to blow my nose.) and I learn there’s a whole language to this handkerchief in back pockets in which I was sending messages. *twitch* Now I’m going to have to re-arrange my wardrobe.
Does your bible lose it’s meaning when it’s translated from Greek? Does your bible lose the breath of God when upon it you do sleep? Does your bible cry in righteousness when treaded under feet? Doooes your Bible make you quake in fear at a glory you can’t speeeeeak?
"4182 call me Ben Reike Leave your Haiku It's cool."
"Ari, come decorate my room. If gay men can decorate for strait women, why can't my lesbian friends decorate for me?" -Reike "Ok, but i have one rule: no denim."
Bless you Mr. Barber for the beautiful music, i want to share it with everyone i see so i'll just walk along singing.
And bless Mr. Starr’s cynical orthodox curmudgeon heart. "Your mother wears combat sandals." -Mr. Starr
Zillah descended from Cain gave birth to 'all who forge instruments of bronze and iron.' Maybe it's a good thing i work in silver, gold, steel, and aluminum, then again and not so literally I’ll always be marked.
You are a party and I am a school night. when's it gonna work out and what's gonna give?
She's right- popular culture can only hold so much in it's memory at any time.
The plague is upon us at St. John's. Everyone is ill and ping ponging weather isn't helping. Our music class sounds like a chorus of sickness in Gregorian chant form. Ah--a-ah--chooooooo.
Does a piece of wood say to you, 'WOOD!' as it would a to a scientist it's chemical composition?
We know it to be wood. We know it as wood.
With help from Jeanne and Sarah over the summer.
-“This is she/he” *spoken in deep/high voice* -“I’m sorry my therapist told me not to talk to you” -“No she’s having sex right now.” -“No, the candles are lit and she’s like a moth- I just can’t drag her away from them.” -“No, she’s having a, uh, hard time in the bathroom.” –“I could get her to call you back after she cleans up and washes her hands…” -“No, she’s in labor.” -“No, she’s out saving the universe.” -“No, she’s out calling down the dark goddess with her menstrual blood” -“Could you hold please?” do this several times -“No, she’s dead.” -“No, she’s out shooting her porno right now.” -“No, she was abducted by aliens.” -“No, she’s fulfilling a childhood fantasy by chewing electrical wire.” -“No, she’s seems to be…tied up…er, rather, chained up.” -“No, she’s drunk- but I could put her on anyway.” -“No, we keep her in the back yard these days.” -“No, but have you ever considered the salvation of Jesus Christ?” -“Can I sell you my phone? I don’t want it if you’re just going to keep calling me to try to sell me things.” -“No- But wait! I’m channeling Elvis! Baby u-huh..” -“No but would you like to by MY *whatever it is their selling*” -“No, she’s kind of lost the gift of language, how’s your guttural grunting?” -“No, she’s in for a sex change.” -“Oh yeah! Hold on a second…” *barf sounds as you stand over the toilet throwing things into it.* -“No, she had a little accident with a clown shoe, a gerbil and a yam. She’s looking at 5 grand in reconstructive surgery. It just goes to show you, always use KY jelly.” -“No, she’s having rubber ducky time right now.” -“No, I think the saggy couch ate her.” -“No, she’s out flying a kite in the thunderstorm- something about being Bell’s reincarnation.”
Aristotle is a flow chart and Homer is a quirky verbal equation.
I got a Shiatsu massage from Lauri my manager today. It took me a while to relax and let my breathing come naturally instead of controlling the main usually involuntary action i was left with. It was a great benefit for me as i remembered what happens during a massage- and what the point should be. The stimulus of your body by someone who knows what they're doing as you leave control completely to them reminds you of what it's like to be aware of the movements of your body not just taking them for granted. Again i'm made aware of particular feelings in my body, parts and connections. I didn't even realize i've been working my hamstrings hard due to fencing till she started massaging them. I thought i may not be able to ride my bike as i left her house- but the muscle has it's own memory, lucky my brain had little to do but go 'oh wow, i'm moving'.
I got paid today to drive my bike up around the ski basin as i 'helped' the freshman of my lab class gather conifer specimens for classification. Ascending S curves are wonderful. On the flip side, cat dissection begins. I get my very own formally known as the being of cat to carefully pull, pick and probe apart and the accompanying ode de formaldehyde. At least i'll have my very own 'Music to dissect cats to' soundtrack to do all the work to.
A Fat Tire and Pocky after working out. Ahhhh....Blissed out by food again.
After studying Ptolemy i can't watch the intro to 'Third Rock From The Sun' without feeling queasy. It's not that the Earth isn't depicted as an immobile center to the universe that disturbs my mental sense of order so that i feel physically sick but it's not a nice thing to see a universe so keenly studied for a constant movement in chaotic disarray. Bleh. To much all at once.
It seems I'm less embarrassed about being seen as foolish than before, as i know i am a fool- but only slightly.
The Rocks, The Water Tank, The Dorm Room, The Gym, The Weight Room, The Racquetball Court, The Dorm Roof, The Great Hall Stage, The Sound Booth, The Senior Common Room, The Seminar Table, The Fine Art's Building, The Library Nook, The ESL Bathroom, The Saddle of Mt. De Sol and Mt. De Lune, The Swing- But not the Lab Room.
We’re kicking it Old Testament style in seminar and so I brought my Bible along to work but left it in my bike’s saddle bags out the front when I realized it was going to be a busy night not allowing for any reading time. Someone stole my Bible. They undid the latches of the saddle bags, bothered to re-do them up, and stole my crappy ass translation from highschool of the Bible. Maybe they wanted to read about how what they were doing was immoral, maybe they have a keen sense of irony, maybe they're a kleptomaniac.
Though i did get busted, so to speak, at work for not being 'of age' to hang out after my shifts, Donalee has, on her own, thought of my love of Aussie music and my uprightness as a staffer, put the two together and wants to let me work a 'special' shift taking care of the Aussie band 'Fruit' that will be playing The Paramount.
Oath yes. Here's to thoughtful and caring people.
In other wonderful news, Brooks may book Rasputina for a gig!
*grins and blushes*
My suspicions about S&C were confirmed. Starr was tearing down most of the original posters around campus, hence the new "Frustrated and Undermined. 'I love it when you tear me down'" signs.
This year I can't prance around in the leather g-string as i had intended. humph. Where to find the gratification for a rare exhibitionist kicks? I'll actually have to wear a skirt so as not to show full cheek. The idea is if it makes the tutor blush, go back and put on some more stuff.
By next year this party won't even happen. It'll be a clean 'Welcoming party', meaning- just like every other night of the week where we conjugate have a beer and some nice discussions about philosophy.
The other night i dreamt i was a homeless gay man in a city with the reality of The Maxx meets Interzone from Naked Lunch. I had a beautiful female long blond haired social worker i would always upset in little daily ways. Not being clean or having safe sex, arriving unannounced or disappearing, ignoring social graces with my homeless acquaintances. She was very upset when i retold the situation i had almost gotten into of being beaten behind a bath house in the alley at night by some rednecks.
Most of the time i was truly sorry i could never seem to overcome doing such considerably uncouth things, and by them loosing her respect (and maybe the pieces of my sanity). I always reverted to these savagisms and couldn’t keep the distinctions in my head or accept anything other than what I had known after becoming homeless.
If i can't and never will experience being completely unlike myself in this life (apart from a drag character which is an attempt at this) at least my subconscious offers up a fierce brew of almost real dreams of some appropriate facsimiles.
Finally, someone that speaks the language.
My hands have become a likeness of my fathers through habit formed of nurture and nature.
A painting of a house in which with framed pictures of everything that should be in the house are subsituted for the actual objects.
Where's René Magritte, apres la guerre, when you need him?
I make this covenant with ye: Not till S&C will i descend like an eagle upon thee.
New names up for this years classic S&C party: Soft and Cuddly, salient and conformed, Silenced and Censored. Most accompanied by classical paintings containing nudity and corresponding black out bars.
This may have most to do with Basia, Dean Levine and Balcom's decision that there will be NO Reality this year if funded in the traditional manner that the Santa Fe campus usually does. While i can agree with the principal it still seems we'll have to, "Fight for your right to parrrrr-ty!!" throughout the year.
Try not to make the Freudian slip of calling The Pope 'The Poop' when speaking to a devout Catholic again.
Last night as i passed by the gym Austin called out to me to try and bench a certain weight that the 180 pounded Hiking Viking, Konsgard, could not. 135 pounds. I did it and was amused. I don't focus on chest exercises at all (i like my breasts as is thanks!) but do exercise them indirectly. For someone that weighs 120, i topped all the ratios the other guys had managed.
I think I'll add 'Weight lifter/Body builder' (but in a classic Lisa Lyon sort of style rather than the carb loading hulk manner) to my list of careers to defect to if my life goes down the dunny.
"He shall eat the fruit of his labors even if he is a carpenter."
The Sexual Revolution- when promiscuous sex went from being common to being popular and political.
dueling monochords!
Play the "pididdle" game. Take a roadtrip without a windshield or gloves. Not wear sunscreen. Forget you have a reserve tank. Try to check out people. Go naked. (at least, when the bike is moving.)
My bike has gone to Albuquerque and back, it's first road trip! Definitely worth repeating on the bike once the helpful and functional accessories i ordered arrive. Windsheer at 75 is a bitch.
After having attended an open forum sex workshop headed by a long strawberry red haired, baby blue eyed, 20 year old female UNM student during NYAC on the last day, i saw romantic love in her eyes as she looked at her significant other, spoke a few soft and lent in for a little kiss. I knew i was catching a close glance of something that had nothing to do with me, that had no shame in it, and that was for the two of them alone. I happened to be vaguely starring above her head as she and her lover sat on the floor and a speaker presented before them. I'm not even going to try to describe exactly what that look of love is and was here. I just haven't seen love in someone's eyes for months. I probably haven’t been looking, or i've been ignoring the fact that people out there in the world are in love with someone every day.
Perhaps the best compliment to the Cunt Coloring Book: Bondage on a Budget.
I remember smiling during the photo shoot but in the pics he put up i'm not at all. He kindly edited out the puffy red eye i had that day though.
"C'mon hot rod!/Give me your ***!". -Peaches
Wow! Our computer room has it's very own (seemingly) live in goth girl- i have seen her no where else on campus but the below street level computer lab. Maybe she's taking classes online. No wait- she just left the room with her backpack, red sunglasses and baseball bat. Well that's that.
The Menu for Tonight: Zozobra
Today i may be worn out and generally out of it but my soul is happy. Not so much because of the convergence of events but the meeting and coming together of people.
The Womens Tub at Ten Thousand Waves? Why, yes- who need any other 'communal' tub. Laying naked in the lap of female energy, sauna, cold plunge, spa and sun. The crones out lasted me.
Running nude through a Jewish convention screaming "Treif!"
Sneak into the night to kill the person who spends this money on anything But Sex, Drugs or Knives. Support URBAN terrorism- fight the real enemy.
With Jackson's eyes blacked out.
X still smiles at me and seems in better spirits. W is off campus this year and off her rocker just like the beginning of last year. V is back in the states from the squalors of S.A. with some culture shock. U is an alpha Lioness, I can’t fathom where she’s come from. T is harder to reach now than when he was in the Army. S hasn’t acted in 5 years but is making the packed audience cry each Wednesday night. R is optimistic about the hole he began to dig and the asshole left, he’s joining Pink Wig. Q came by for a very late night state visit. P is still pursuing by ‘random’ meeting- if the world doesn’t end, as he'll say, this next spring. O has found new flashy Buddhist garb for no apparent reason. N is on vacation. Her absence telling me she is a real friend. M is feverishly in love- her heart and mind not here but in a certain pair of artist’s hands. L still seeks an escape for her silent depressions and quiet desperations- mostly aided by alcohol. K is with Alaskan cold and dope. J still says plain and misleadingly that she’s from NY. I still thinks it’s a shame I’m a lesbian. H still has my damn lab book. G is the blue boy I can never find unless I truly need him. F has no idea what he’s doing but isn’t suppose too. E is a cluckabuck. D stairs at everything with breasts and is glad summertime didn’t make him insane. C is gone back to Texas with sharpness gleaming in his gypsy eyes. B and K are moving to Minnesota after a tour of Europe. He can bop groundhogs to his heart’s content. A is a ghost anymore. Not nevermore.
When I was in 1st and 2nd grade at HKIS, I didn’t realize it at the time but I was being sent to counseling, or therapy. Take your pick. During the middle of class for an hour or so once or twice a week I would be marched off up one of the eight story side concrete stair cases to the ‘happy feel good’ place which had several offices with windowed walls and bright pastel paints with cute inspirational posters on them (like the one with a color spotted Dalmatian amongst black and white Dalmatians with the saying ‘show your colors’ on it.) and one very large never ending bowl of suckers that sat on the secretary’s desk as you entered the labyrinth. I don’t remember much more of these visits besides the place itself. I do know there were a few other children that would come along with me to the ‘sessions’ The lady wold read us a story or show us pictures and ask us questions about them, or observe us playing. I remember taking a test in a room by myself and being informed that it was not for a grade, that I should take my time. Eventually I suppose they saw no real reason to have me visit them anymore as one day as I was leaving I was told I could take two suckers because I wasn’t coming back. I was bid a smiling farewell by the desk lady and the counselor lady. I probably just confused the hell out of my teachers with my actions and they needed justification for or over me. Of course, I’ll never admit anything was wrong with the little me.
Why didn't i know about this organization earlier!? Oath! They've got Derek Walcott AND Les Murray coming!!!
So it seems i'll be 'teaching' my lab class. Really. The tutor i'm assisting for wishes to give me equal billing with himself in our class. He is completely new to teaching labs with practica in them and especially Johnny styled labs. In fact he's new to the whole school- he is not exactly informed or indoctrinated as to the ways. He's from Germany and unfortunately a few times when he cracked a joke over the hour lunch we had i didn't pick up on the fact that the tone he was using was jovial. Opse- being too serious again or not noticing his German humor. He probably believes i'm violent or at least dominating from what i told him of myself- steel and weapons and all. I was just being as strait forward as possible while still being personal. He's fairly opinionated, seems energetic about school, and unimpressed with his own accomplishments to date. He's been studying and teaching philosophy for quite some time and has oddly enough, been to UI and Kokomo like my ol' Dad.
"You can't do anything in Santa Fe in 10 minutes. Maybe commit suicide- but even that can take a half hour or longer and usually does." - Robby, co-owner of The Aztec Cafe.
"I bet even the rock stars [in Santa Fe] don't fuck like rock stars." -Sarah my summer house mate.
In the begining was the word... but it had to be translated. The Septuigent is far different.
And at the fishpond today: I was walking on the reeds, on the water, and at my feet- the snake's skin presented itself to me.
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