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Saturday, June 15, 2002
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Last night I said the first goodbyes of the year, to Kristina and Ryan, in a beautiful group hug. But this time, I'm not seeing it as goodbye forever. So far, nothing's been forever.
14:21
Friday, June 14, 2002
update
Went to my first-ever bachelorette party last night for a friend who's getting married in August... Nine of us dressed up in various versions of tight/sparkly/sheer and went downtown for cocktails, drag singers and dancing. Everything I wore was borrowed: dress from my little sister, shoes and jacket from Eliina, necklace from Amanda. And come to think of it, everything was also blue -- the shoes, for example, were sparkly, navy blue, five-inch platform heels. I'd just recently been reminiscing about my four-inch gold platforms from my high school senior prom, so I thought it'd be fun to wear them. Which it was. Except for the whole walking thing. Eliina wore equally tall platform, knee-high boots. We lagged at least five feet behind the group at all times, moving at top speed. ....But as always, what I ended up wearing and where we went didn't matter as much as I'd expected. I enjoyed the pre-departure dress-up sessions and the El ride just as much as anything.
10:32
Thursday, June 13, 2002
quote
"There's a dark and a troubled side of life...There's a bright, there's a sunny side, too...Though we meet with the darkness and strife... The sunny side we also may view..." -- The Whites, Keep On the Sunny Side
17:53
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
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Ah, stubborn Italians. In a story on how instruction manuals are viewed around the world, Wired reports that for Italians, instruction manuals "must never, ever tell them how to use a product. You merely suggest what they might consider doing with it."
20:32
the best places
One evening this week, Amanda, Eliina and I curled up on the couch by the window, feeling like peaceful kittens. We slept a little, talked a little about imagined futures (Babies? Cats?), and listened to the faint noises outside. When we finally sat up, a white kitten was staring directly at us from a window ledge in the adjoining building.
18:15
Monday, June 10, 2002
happy thing
Amanda figured out which poem I meant. I could only remember pieces of it. But she'd learned it in French class, too, so she knew what I was talking about. It's by Jacques Prevert, and it's here, translated.
22:47
this morning
Amanda woke me up at 4:30am to work on my Poli Sci paper. Apparently, although I don't remember it, I told her that the phone was ringing. Then she and I shared a pot of coffee. Now it's 6am, and I'm listening to Born to Run, noting as each song starts and ends, ticking off the CD track by track. The light outside turned from gray to clear gold in just a few minutes. My paper is due at noon.Update, 7am: I have now listened to Born to Run twice. Time for a new CD. Aretha Franklin, here I come. Update, 8pm: I finished the paper at 11:30 today, got to the Poli Sci office at 11:50 and turned it in. Yay for that.
07:18
Sunday, June 09, 2002
quote
"I will be with you always, except when I'm watching the Simpsons." -- God's LiveJournal (followed by a comment from a reader: "God, I understand. I don't think about you when I watch the Simpsons either.")
17:47
update
I've worked all year on a project that helped local kids create their own magazine. We've been working since October; just getting them to write anything at all has been the biggest challenge. But eventually they did. And for the past three days, I've been designing the magazine -- playing with Quark XPress, immersed in their stories. Yesterday evening, the kids, parents, volunteers and friends gathered for a celebration dinner. I watched the little ones jump rope, giggle and dance. I saw the parents beam proudly at their teenagers. And the project, which I'd clung to stubbornly this year in hopes of some progress, felt worth it.
14:53
quote
"It's easier to pretend that past means past and gone. Then we can really believe we are not who we once were, treat our painful condition as a distant echo of someone else's mistakes. But right here in this body, this form, we feel death and birth in an hour, a day; we are born and die in the space of a single breath." -- Sallie Tisdale
14:44
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