Tuesday, May 19, 2009

o l i v e / u

sara made dinner tonight while i bit the pits from spanish olives and spelled love notes on the kitchen table. i think we are very happy here. honeymoon stage, i guess: she is to my left now, arms all full of bracelets, reading another book from my queer identity class last fall. i like school and i sort of wish summer didn't mean no classes, but it's been nice to breathe air and curl around my coffee cup for a while. i have been rummaging through my art supplies and dabbling, the past few nights, with ink, watercolor, copper wire, bits 'n' scraps. the result has been a handful of very small things; some abandoned, some crumbled, some mildly pleasing:

miniature ink drawings with watercolor, colored pencil, thread and pastel crayon.

sartre takes a smoke break in the tuileries. i don't have pliers in my new place yet so playing with this resulted in bloody fingers. the petals are recycled from a lit mag i don't care about.

i started reading Ulysses today between calls at work. it's about time, i think. at page 43, so far i have learned a great deal of greek and latin and laughed out loud probably a dozen times. will report back in a week or two. fleshier summer reading list to follow, as well.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

the wind, again

yesterday i finished reading richard brautigan's "in watermelon sugar." it is now my favorite book of all time. not to get cosmic or anything--in the past i have expressed a desire to, one day, write a book myself, but after reading "in watermelon sugar" i no longer feel the need to write a book. i may, however, write a supremely presumptuous and overtly psychoanalytical scholarly article about "in watermelon sugar" and submit it for publication in the oxford journals. for the first thirty pages or so, i was convinced the watermelon fields were acres and acres of color-changing buttocks.

anyway.

when i was a freshman i made this dashti out of an old coathanger, some scrounged supplies and a nazar bonjuk. for a while it chased the bad spirits away from my bedroom in my parents' house but i think it has really found its home here: at six o'clock the sun comes in and scatters jewels all over the walls of my new room.


tonight we are having (mostly) cupcakes and wine for dinner. the wine is white and almost gone and the cupcakes are yellow cake with pink sugary tofu cream frosting, sprigs of mint and fresh raspberries. sara and i made them together.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

new bachelorette apartment

freezer contents: carrot cake rice milk ice cream, soy protein links, gordon's london dry gin. i love our new life