27 February 2009

A MARDI GRAS SPRING BREAK

20+ hours in a van with 6 people i slightly know + $200 hotel room + a quatrillion people + open intox + 10 thousand tons of plastic beads + bourbon street = u decide

19 February 2009

redefining irony

found out via the facebook that 3 close friends from high school are now married and 2 others have babies, not to mention the other 7 or 8 acquaintances now married/with children. and i can't even make myself write a goddamn paper on the notion of maturity.

18 February 2009

ann arbor...

...is like u of m's retarded test tube baby.

this is not an original quote. a friend said it in passing a few weeks ago and i can't stop thinking about it. aren't there more important things than a graffiti ordinance? what about u of m buying the pfizer campus? what about shaman drum possibly going out of business? yet that same block of state street can support like 5 corporate sandwich shops (no joke) a chipotle and an urban outfitters when right down the street or around the corner exists an american apparel and a btb? and students thinking that is main street. is the public school system really that good? i teach at community high and i think it has some things going for it, but as all education has major fault lines. is ann arbor really the place where you would want to raise a family? certainly, it has its ups as well as its downs and the people can be nice on occasion, but honestly, i could go on forever about all the things gone wrong, most of it the university's "fault" no? the goddamn new panara bread on the corner of n. thayer and n. university--all because of student life, right? that's what students want? jimmy johns and starbucks and barnes and noble and chain bars and 'fancy' restaurants all owned by the same goddamn company? i think i'm done with this town. chalk another one up to corrupt cities of the midwest. what would ann arbor be if the campus had stayed in detroit? what would detroit be if the campus had remained there? what a shit-rant, i don't even know what i'm talking about. maybe i'm just frustrated by what was originally so alluring: the integration of town and city, what i didn't realize then that i realize now is that it's not so much symbiotic as parasitic, that ann arbor not so much houses u of m's campus as u of m owns the town of ann arbor. and frankly, i feel bad for the city. it has so much going for it. and maybe it's just university towns in general, but i think u of m has it's head pretty far up its ass, i mean a good education? maybe. diversity? ha. liberalism? i don't think so. dream on, and hike the tuition again. oh, and buy out kerrytown and arborland and bird hills and anything else you can get your greasy, sleazy alumni money on while you are at it. GO BLUE.

**i'm not saying i'm not at fault with any of this. i give in too, it's so easy to live here. i admit that i've fallen into the sweet seductions of the university too, but...well, i'm ashamed of it, but at least i know what i've gotten into?

dreamscapes

i keep having dreams about serial killers

it takes as much energy to complete two google searches as it does to __________________

i also can't remember a goddamn thing. brush your teeth? power a stoplight for a week? flush the toilet? marry a roadside to the interstate? drive to detroit? charge a computer? lick five men in the belly? i think school will be the end of me and it probably won't amount to anything with a cherry on top. i don't even like cherries.

kudos 2 cayden



http://www.michigandaily.com/content/2009-02-18/transcending-gender

09 February 2009

can't think of another goddamn word for 'tunnel'

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06 February 2009

since all i've been doing

is watching 'sex & the city'

i thought i would remind myself of my REASONS FOR BEING ALIVE OTHER THAN TELEVISION:

1. desire
2. days like today when the sun is shining & the air is warm & it seems like nothing could go wrong.
3. a.m. coffee
4. walking. really far.
5. imagination. hope.
6. really good friends who just understand
7. laughing (that's silly, maybe, but so true)
8. the great lakes
9. train rides
10. fishing
11. reading a good book, yes, a good book
12. kitchens & everything that happens in them
13. trillium, briefly, bogs, fens, swamps, fiddlehead ferns--liminal spaces & transient things
14. being fully aware of oneself in the present moment
15. sleeping,
16. birds
17. really, really good long runs.
18. hot tea, a good meal, breakfast
19. legos, play-doh, playing house, making blanket forts, lincoln logs, potions, swingsets, slides, hide & seek, freeze tag, story time, marbles, dominoes, card houses, chutes & ladders, candy land, puzzles
20. sincere, offhand compliments (making & taking)

i'm REALLY hungry













04 February 2009

hannah just sent me this--

trees don't breathe!

sitting in the car with the kids i babysit earlier, we debated whether or not trees have hearts. i tried to explain that trees were alive, and the concept of photosynthesis. kyan stood up from his seat and cocked one leg out and spread his arms open, filling his cheeks with air and just stayed that way. i asked him what he was doing and he said "photosypsasis." god, smart kid, right?

02 February 2009

NAKED! NAKED! NAKED!

OMG IT'S FEBRUARY. saw about three dozen robins on my run yesterday, only wore one pair of tights today. good sign or misleading?