On Saturday I bought the Ninja. I am very excited (no pictures yet sorry).
My mom is not excited at all.
Last night I dreamt about shoes. They were all too wide except the impractical yellow strappy sandals with a smoothly curved sole, slippery on any surface. I don't even like yellow. The sensible shoes were all so wide they wouldn't even stay on my feet. This can't be a good sign.
Later I dreamt a friend of mine had a party. I went wearing only some skimpy underwear and a thick and heavy chainlink skirt with a purple translucent pearlescent taffeta sash tied around over it. It was a hot outfit, but my leg muscles got sore from carrying around all that heavy chain. What this means, I don't know. But the escalators at the party location were collapsible and easily guarded.
I forgot to post on Wednesday.
Happy Thanksgiving. My contribution, Veuve Cliquot. Who doesn't like that for dessert?
That's right.
Looking through some old folders I found this thing from I dunno, a year ago. I liked it, so thought I'd put it up.
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I spent a year in a fugue. Thinking. If you asked me now what I thought about I couldn’t tell you. Well, I could, but you wouldn’t understand. Understand how I could spend a year on the same 6 pieces of information. Worrying them until they unraveled and became meaningless. Not realizing that misery wasn’t the end result, but a means to nothing. Or maybe you know how it goes. How when you’re in it, it’s all there is. No light at the end of the tunnel. You know the tunnel is limited, you know that someday you’ll find your way out, you’re just not concerned with turning someday into now. Until you realize.
And one day I did. It was a Wednesday, and I was going to see some friends for dinner. Force myself out of the house into human company because someone told me that was supposed to help. I sat on the floor on my knees and put my head down and let some sobs escape. There’s a harsh sound that comes from your throat when you’re wracked with emotions that don’t make sense. Emotions you’ve already had for days, weeks, months. You don’t need them anymore but you don’t know anything else. And it’s a Wednesday, so you kneel on the floor and put your head down, hug yourself and cry. When you’re
done you clean up, put on makeup (no mascara) and go outside. You put on your hat and scarf and exit. Go to your friend’s house and eat dinner as if nothing is wrong. Even they don’t buy it. They know, but they feed you and let you be. They walk you home or not, whatever you want. But the problem is; nothing is what you want. And so you realize, and you make changes. You make it work and you make yourself clean. Force yourself down the tunnel into the light. Even if it’s still dim, it’s lighter. Easier to carry. It’s a relief but you don’t feel the relief because there’s no point in worrying about it anymore. And one day you don’t even carry it with you. You’re free.
And then somebody loves you, and you exhale, just a little, and wait to see what goes wrong. What gets fucked up this time? When does it turn? But it doesn’t turn. Somebody loves you and they turn down the bed for you. Somebody cares and they look at you and smile, make you coffee and wash your back. Somebody draws you a bath and puts you into bed and somebody hugs you and keeps you awake at night with their snores.
You tell yourself it isn’t what you want, and it’s not going to be. And then suddenly it is. It’s just what you want. A friend who’s more than a friend. Someone to talk to, sit with silently, and someone who you return nice favors in kind. Who it feels as good to give to as get from. But then there it is, the other shoe drops, and it’s gone. You’ve already been through the tunnel so you don’t go back, you just sit there in the dim light and wait for spring, knowing you could do more than wait, but not doing it.
Do you ever think you pull away more from the people you like the most? A defense mechanism. Stay away from spilling it all, make yourself not care, not want to tell. So much so that eventually, you think you don’t like them so much anymore. How could you like them if you don’t want to let them in? If you want to keep it all to yourself? Hide it away and fix it before anyone really sees it. Fight your way through your tunnels and prove you're worth it. Finally come through that tunnel, stand up tall, look around. And you’re alone with no one next to you. And where are they? It doesn’t matter. They’ve all gone.
But I signed up for the Motorcycle Training Course to take place in mid-December and I'm going to buy my friend's Ninja 250 this weekend.
Not that my mom could say much. My dad started riding motorcycles a few years ago. Granted he's 73 so you figure he's already got a long life should anyone plow into him... but you also gotta figure my reaction times are going to be quicker. I’ll also never forego gloves just because it’s warm out, or ride off for a gallon of milk in my house slippers. But I’m crazy like that.
It's just that I've spent enough time on the back. For days at a time across Thailand and Cambodia (through mud puddles up to the seat and monsoon rains and asleep), around the City, down to the races, whatever. I’ve only been thinking about doing this for 6 or 7 years, so it’s time to just go do it.
Maybe I should start doing more of the other things I want to be doing too. Hrm.
"Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking when I said..."
In my head for 3 days.
"Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity."
-Pema Chodron
All the more reason to save yourself first.
Though there's nothing wrong with givng some of your equals a little humanitarian kick in the ass.
I got a book in the mail today from my one blog fan. I might as well just thank you directly: Hey blog fan Kev from Missouri, thanks for the book. My oldie boss already saw it on my desk and asked to read it when I'm through. Plus I was trying to slog through "The Land of Charm and Cruelty" (which is good, dont get me wrong) but just haven't had the concentration for non-fiction relating to socio-economics and stuff.
Anyway, thanks again k-dub.
Guys named Kevin are like the new black these days, I swear.
I lied, summer came back for a minute. It's too warm for a coat outside. Wtf, I say. Wtf.
Also, I'm still having fun almost all the time. What the hell is going on around here?
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It's winter again in San Francisco. Time to get out the heavy blankets.
This weekend, in the midst of it, I thought I was having too much fun. Every time disappointment started to creep in, more fun came along instead. Shows and parties, costumes, people, and the adventure of falling asleep in strange places, once on a floor, in seldom visited neighborhoods. My only concern was a tiny nagging voice somewhere in the back of my head trying to tell me that it’s somehow inappropriate not to act my age.
I found the little voice, and I killed it.
Of course now that the weekend is over, I’m cranky and today is a craphole of a day, but I can console myself with the fact that I’m younger now than I was when I was younger. Which doesn’t make any sense… but is a lot more fun.
Plus, now I can do whatever I want.
250,000 people come within 4 blocks of my neighborhood to gawk and grabass. I meant to go walk around and come home early. I failed. I did manage to avoid the flask of Southern Comfort (and who wouldn’t avoid it), but I failed to avoid a bar full of beer and costumed revelers. Is there anything better than overly friendly costumed revelers, 3 out of 5 guys in drag, girls in skimpy outfits, group clothing irony, all with a slimy coating of beer, and softened by a hazy filter of cigarette smoke?