Ξ Tuesday, 31 Jul 2007 at 23:45 | → Comments Off | ∇ Normal |
note: the MySQL server was down for maintenance last night, so I couldn’t post this until now (01 August ~08.48).
indeed, we are on the cusp of August, with only about an hour to go; there will, of course, be less time when I’m finished writing this. it’s been a good month, the better part of which I spent in Oregon — well, only about a third of it, but still a significant period of time. the liminal period between months is always interesting to me. I end up forgetting what month it is once the new one comes, just as when the new year comes, and my dates are jumbled up for a few days while I adjust. but the new always comes, Time always surges forward, an inexorable, pitiless force. I wouldn’t want to know my death-day, because that would just cause a myriad of problems in the time I had remaining, especially the logistics of squeezing everything into an amount of time that is already decadently delimited by our very mortal nature. so, would that I only know my fate when it’s right behind me, and may I die happy and old — fortunate in life, happy in death, as the ancients would have said. (more…)
Ξ Monday, 30 Jul 2007 at 00:24 | → Comments Off | ∇ Normal |
upon the threshold of Monday now. well, it’s just over the brink. Branco and Olga, my charming roommates, have just bequeathed a bed to me. their old bed, in fact; I initially thought it was the bed of the woman next door who moved out today, but later on I was proven wrong. Branco informed me that their bed was too big, and thus they got a smaller one, and didn’t have anywhere for the bigger one to go, except to Goodwill or somewhere else (his words were “it goes out,” I believe, if I didn’t want it). they were going to put the futon against the windows, simply moving it, but I asked if it could simply go, vanish, and they said sure. apparently they want to keep it for the living room, which is fine with me as long as it doesn’t block things. (more…)
Ξ Friday, 27 Jul 2007 at 16:58 | → 1 Comments | ∇ Normal |
Monday morning on the MUNI, while I rode to work, listening innocuously to my iPod, something very strange happened. not necessarily strange for MUNI, but still crazy enough to relate. out of the blue, this bummy-looking guy walks up from the other end of the car. he walks up to this Asian guy sitting adjacent to me, and starts rambling: “Do you know what it means to stare at someone? Why do you keep staring at me?” The Asian guy didn’t respond; I don’t know if he couldn’t understand or if he just didn’t want to upset the guy. whatever reason, the bum wasn’t buying it, and he unexpectedly pounded the Asian guy with his fist. all of a sudden people around me were yelling at the bummy guy to leave him alone, and trying to break things up. I didn’t really look at either of them, trying to stay out of it, lest the guy turn his attention to me. (more…)
Ξ Monday, 23 Jul 2007 at 23:38 | → 1 Comments | ∇ Normal |
sleep has been on my mind since this morning, when I went to bed too late, and woke up too early, in my opinion. I didn’t get to sleep into almost 04.00, as far as I remember. the last thing I remember was staring up at the dark, vaulted ceiling, eyes intermittently closed and hoping I wouldn’t oversleep. I willed my body into some sort of low-power hibernation, a half-ass charade that passed for sleep for a few hours. I don’t know whether I truly slept or not, but I jerked awake around 07.55, and looked at my watch incredulously, blinking, wondering if I’d not slept in hours late. thankfully, I hadn’t, and I did in fact get to work on time. but I felt destroyed the whole day, lacking my normal six or seven hours of sleep; what a difference those two or three extra hours make. (more…)
Ξ Monday, 23 Jul 2007 at 02:44 | → Comments Off | ∇ Normal |
i guess it must be the late-night schedule I’ve kept the last couple of nights. i have been in bed for about an hour and a half trying to get to sleep, and the dreams, the nothingness, none of it will come. the brownish sky outside mocks me with its emptiness and vaguely menacing gloom. I know that I need to wake up within five hours so as to get to work on time, and that isn’t helping me sleep any. I’m not really looking forward to work tomorrow, because I wanted a longer weekend, but that’s how these things go, I suppose. It’s going to be a fairly sedate week at work, because Rita is gone on vacation, and I’m just filing and taking care of random things here and there, as well as Jenn’s work she assigns me. and the fact that I get to read the last Harry Potter book in a couple of days, ostensibly, heartens me. (more…)
Ξ Sunday, 22 Jul 2007 at 02:12 | → 1 Comments | ∇ Normal |
i will take a moment to say that i’m rather tired while writing this. it’s been an eventful two days of the weekend thus far, at least if you count Friday as a “weekend day.” Friday was an interesting yet chaotic day, full of Harry Potter mayhem on all sides, though it didn’t touch me all that much. I also had my first meal at McDonald’s in probably four or so years that day, interestingly enough, and it was just as subpar as I’d remembered it. the Big Macs used to be a lot bigger when I was a child. (more…)
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