Month: January 2006
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January 2006 Books
January 3, 2006 \\The Awakening and Selected Stories\\ by Kate Chopin I’ve read this many times before and picked it off the shelves while I was waiting in the living room to get picked up for my second New Year’s Eve party. The novella is cinematic to me: I can really see the path down…
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The Thing About Love
The thing about love, I said at work on Friday afternoon, at dinner last night, at brunch this morning, is that whatever type it is and whomever you do it with, it’s always hard. It’s hard when you’re partnered, it’s hard when you’re single, it’s hard when you’re somewhere in between. It’s hard when you…
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Slow Day
Slow day, long day, soft day. The rain has stopped but the clouds wash the sky and close it in, bring it down closer to me, walking along the street in my borrowed scarf and hat because I lost mine on the bus last week. It’s chilly and I stride along, turning up the volume…
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Good Sense
I just got back from < a href=http://www.olympusspa.com>the spa and am feeling suitably gooshy and noodly and generally in a good mood, in stark contrast to the last couple of times I’ve written. Nothing, it turns out, is so efficacious a remedy for generalized angst and anomie than spending a couple of hours surrounded by…
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Something’s Wrong
It’s the weather, or I’m going through a second adolescence, or my period is due next week, or it’s the end of the world and we’re all going to die, or something, but this week just sucks . Actually these past couple of weeks sort of suck and I don’t understand why because nothing is…
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Me Eight Months From Now
It’s amazing that I am almost thirty-one years old and I still have to remind myself that if I want to go out, I have to ask people to go out, that just refreshing my email over and over and waiting for the phone to ring is not going to ameliorate my social life. I…
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It Doesn’t Feel Real
People keep asking me if I’m excited about going to New Zealand, and I keep saying “Yes! It doesn’t quite feel real yet though.” It is a very strange feeling. I don’t have tickets yet because when I called the discount ticket place (the day after I found I’d been accepted) they told me, only…