yeay! im so excited! and nervous. but more excited.
on my way here, once i get all my shit together, to galway. where ive yet to find a place to stay. always fun. but ive never been to galway, and i love to travel and then tommorrow im going to be eating potatoes and pasta all day cause on sunday i'll be running. for several hours. in connemara. i really am excited. i wish i knew someone in galway though. my uncle thought i was crazy for going alone. it'll make it more interesting i figure.
is there anybody out there? no comments. for ages. but i really dont mind. hope ya's have a great weekend. if you're out there.
Friday, March 24, 2006
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
discuss amongst yourselves
March 22, 1972
Congress sent the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. It fell short of the three-fourths needed.
Today is World Water Day. 1.1 billion people go without safe drinking water. 2.6 billion or 40% of the world's population lacks decent sanitation. This leads to millions of preventable deaths. And the future doesn't look good.
my bro is in amsterdam. and he texts me asking where to go. he says im at the museum. so i ask if he's at the van gogh (previously discussed rembrandt/caravaggio exhibit going on there), the heineken, or the hemp museum. there's a hemp museum he asks? oh dear. i really should be there right now.
he cracks me up. its so him. like he'll just walk around the house, not actually looking but informing me while im trying to read or watch tv etc that he cant find something. he'll literally walk in circles around me till i get up, point in front of him. dude. its right there. look before you ask. i am not your mother!
kids these days ;)
i have to go outside. its sunny. it hasnt been sunny in a long time-whole weekend was pretty brutal weatherwise. feckin freezin. and i was walking around barefoot-toughening up the soles for the marathon people! ah yes the marathon im running in 4 days. so on sunday think of me. and hope i dont get lost in the wilds of connemara. the start is like in the middle of nowhere -we've to take a bus to it.
later folks. happy wednesday. its all downhill from here ;)
Congress sent the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. It fell short of the three-fourths needed.
Today is World Water Day. 1.1 billion people go without safe drinking water. 2.6 billion or 40% of the world's population lacks decent sanitation. This leads to millions of preventable deaths. And the future doesn't look good.
my bro is in amsterdam. and he texts me asking where to go. he says im at the museum. so i ask if he's at the van gogh (previously discussed rembrandt/caravaggio exhibit going on there), the heineken, or the hemp museum. there's a hemp museum he asks? oh dear. i really should be there right now.
he cracks me up. its so him. like he'll just walk around the house, not actually looking but informing me while im trying to read or watch tv etc that he cant find something. he'll literally walk in circles around me till i get up, point in front of him. dude. its right there. look before you ask. i am not your mother!
kids these days ;)
i have to go outside. its sunny. it hasnt been sunny in a long time-whole weekend was pretty brutal weatherwise. feckin freezin. and i was walking around barefoot-toughening up the soles for the marathon people! ah yes the marathon im running in 4 days. so on sunday think of me. and hope i dont get lost in the wilds of connemara. the start is like in the middle of nowhere -we've to take a bus to it.
later folks. happy wednesday. its all downhill from here ;)
ah men
seriously lads!!sometimes its like we want to think things are different
eh no
a female actress gains weight and do we shut up about it?
we are just as 'visual' or whatever the excuse is
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Love after Love
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stanger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
-Derek Walcott
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stanger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
-Derek Walcott
the sea around us
ok you're going to have to trust me on this one, but id written a really cool blog and then boom computer froze. oh i need to get another one so bad. this one is like a put together one from the various places killian worked. thanks killian's employers whoever you are. but its old. mam, dad, if you're reading. come on.
plus it would be like 400x better if i had my computer upstairs in my study
so im thinking laptop, wireless, preferable a mac.
sick of this windows crap.
back to the issue at hand
i went for a run along the seafront-serious head wind, man it was discouraging. cause ok running up a hill, you can see the top, but with a strong wind blowin against ya, it saps your energy.
good cause run is mainly flat, need some resistance.
i got down to the beach and ah! the tide was coming in, i saw starfish, the sea was this crazy color green/gray, im not sure. running down the beach i could see that the sky over howth was bright, and as the wind was coming from that direction, that would mean that my run home would be easier plus possibly catch some sunshine.
there were a couple other people out but they were all wrapped up, i was wearing shorts. dude i get hot really easily. these two older men, walking their dogs, and the dog was eating some kind of sea urchin. i love that word 'urchin'
k so this is rachel carson's 'the sea around us'
beginnings are apt to be shadowy, and so it is with the beginnings of that great mother of life, the sea. . . .
'and the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep-genesis'
when they went ashore the animals that took up land life carried with them a part of the sea in their bodies, a heritage which they passed on to their children and which even today links each land animal with its origin in the ancient sea. Fish, amphibian, and reptile, warm-blooded brid and mammal-each of us carries in our veins a salty stream in which the elements sodium, potassium, and calcium are combined in almost the same proportions as in sea water. . . . In the same way, our lime-hardened skeletons are a heritage from the calcium-rich ocean of Cambrian time. . . . And as life itself began in the sea, so each of us begins his individual life in a minature ocean within his mother's womb, and in the stages of his embryonic development repeats the steps by which his race evolved, from gill-breathing inhabitants of a water world to creatures able to live on land (14).
its magic writing man, combination of things i love, writing and biology, a synergy of sorts. very much recommend
i also think
that
george w. bush should be impeached
not censured.
impeached
this is way beyond an extra-marital affair. and i know that comment is not entirely accurate/inflammatory. but seriously.
what is it going to take?
plus it would be like 400x better if i had my computer upstairs in my study
so im thinking laptop, wireless, preferable a mac.
sick of this windows crap.
back to the issue at hand
i went for a run along the seafront-serious head wind, man it was discouraging. cause ok running up a hill, you can see the top, but with a strong wind blowin against ya, it saps your energy.
good cause run is mainly flat, need some resistance.
i got down to the beach and ah! the tide was coming in, i saw starfish, the sea was this crazy color green/gray, im not sure. running down the beach i could see that the sky over howth was bright, and as the wind was coming from that direction, that would mean that my run home would be easier plus possibly catch some sunshine.
there were a couple other people out but they were all wrapped up, i was wearing shorts. dude i get hot really easily. these two older men, walking their dogs, and the dog was eating some kind of sea urchin. i love that word 'urchin'
k so this is rachel carson's 'the sea around us'
beginnings are apt to be shadowy, and so it is with the beginnings of that great mother of life, the sea. . . .
'and the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep-genesis'
when they went ashore the animals that took up land life carried with them a part of the sea in their bodies, a heritage which they passed on to their children and which even today links each land animal with its origin in the ancient sea. Fish, amphibian, and reptile, warm-blooded brid and mammal-each of us carries in our veins a salty stream in which the elements sodium, potassium, and calcium are combined in almost the same proportions as in sea water. . . . In the same way, our lime-hardened skeletons are a heritage from the calcium-rich ocean of Cambrian time. . . . And as life itself began in the sea, so each of us begins his individual life in a minature ocean within his mother's womb, and in the stages of his embryonic development repeats the steps by which his race evolved, from gill-breathing inhabitants of a water world to creatures able to live on land (14).
its magic writing man, combination of things i love, writing and biology, a synergy of sorts. very much recommend
i also think
that
george w. bush should be impeached
not censured.
impeached
this is way beyond an extra-marital affair. and i know that comment is not entirely accurate/inflammatory. but seriously.
what is it going to take?
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
to the men in my life
first big thanks to eoin for putting the bins out
i have this thing about hating garbage, coming close to it, touching bins
and to da for the marathon entry
but most importantly!!!
a very big kiss and hug for paul on his bday!!!
you better do it in style!
i wish i could be there!
much love to francis
Sunday, March 05, 2006
for f's sake
seriously
im so sick of so many things
women in positions of power lamblasting other women,
why you going to hate on another woman?
why?
why do women always go after the 'other' woman instead of the one
responsible-ie the man?
the fucking media which makes it ok to harrass a woman who's just had a child,
and accuse her of being pregnant again
i am so fucking sick of fashion
yes fashion
i am tired, i am finished with gay men determining what clothes i will wear
yes gay men who very 'surprisingly'
only like to have women model their clothes . . .
who are 5'8 or taller, and skinnier than skinny
ie, in many ways;
lack of hips, boobs, stomach, etc, noticeable package, body hair;
resemble young boys
im not accusing gay men of being pedo's
not at all.
i simply dont understand why i should follow the fashion instinct of a person who
does not
a)find my body type at all attractive
b)is not even attracted to women
im 5'5. i have hips. i have big boobs. and a skinny waist+skinny arms+skinny legs.
which makes me evolutionary wise, pretty hooked up. i can maintain a high level of
physical fitness, while carrying, and feeding a child.
part of my anger is the clothes dont fit,
im not fat,
and it just seems to me to be another example of how unequal this world is,
how far we still have to go, and
how dare pamela get worked up about animal rights
check out the rights of your gender first
m'am please
not hating on the silicon, i'm all for it
plastic surgery is an art-shows the art of medicine
but my dear lord, with the publicity that follows her,
she uses her fame
to alert us to the plight of animals?
im sorry i just cant get to animal rights
when humans are being abused, misused, and then
discarded the world over
enough ranting
does blogger publish your shit if you curse?
i'll find out i guess
im so sick of so many things
women in positions of power lamblasting other women,
why you going to hate on another woman?
why?
why do women always go after the 'other' woman instead of the one
responsible-ie the man?
the fucking media which makes it ok to harrass a woman who's just had a child,
and accuse her of being pregnant again
i am so fucking sick of fashion
yes fashion
i am tired, i am finished with gay men determining what clothes i will wear
yes gay men who very 'surprisingly'
only like to have women model their clothes . . .
who are 5'8 or taller, and skinnier than skinny
ie, in many ways;
lack of hips, boobs, stomach, etc, noticeable package, body hair;
resemble young boys
im not accusing gay men of being pedo's
not at all.
i simply dont understand why i should follow the fashion instinct of a person who
does not
a)find my body type at all attractive
b)is not even attracted to women
im 5'5. i have hips. i have big boobs. and a skinny waist+skinny arms+skinny legs.
which makes me evolutionary wise, pretty hooked up. i can maintain a high level of
physical fitness, while carrying, and feeding a child.
part of my anger is the clothes dont fit,
im not fat,
and it just seems to me to be another example of how unequal this world is,
how far we still have to go, and
how dare pamela get worked up about animal rights
check out the rights of your gender first
m'am please
not hating on the silicon, i'm all for it
plastic surgery is an art-shows the art of medicine
but my dear lord, with the publicity that follows her,
she uses her fame
to alert us to the plight of animals?
im sorry i just cant get to animal rights
when humans are being abused, misused, and then
discarded the world over
enough ranting
does blogger publish your shit if you curse?
i'll find out i guess
Saturday, March 04, 2006
when the session's over
“When the Session’s Over.”
Candle snuffed
whistle blown
glass drained
talk piped down
tunes reeled in.
Magic seeps from the night.
But listen.
Words awake.
Line dancing.
Gearoid Mac Lochlainn
Candle snuffed
whistle blown
glass drained
talk piped down
tunes reeled in.
Magic seeps from the night.
But listen.
Words awake.
Line dancing.
Gearoid Mac Lochlainn
Friday, March 03, 2006
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
life is beautiful
pictures by lennart nilsson
since im not sure where these words are going to turn up, one is of the fallopian tube, its petal-like structures waft the egg into the uterus. and the one with the caption, is the dance, the sperm is blue bottom left hand corner and the egg is the big yellow ball.
Picture Day!
so this is what happens when i wake up early. wow. i might have to start doing this on a more regular basis. its weird, like i say i grew up in lexington, but i feel like ive done alot of my growing up here.
lucy, i hope you dont mind me posting this picture but i had to.
anyways so today i went to put the garbage out, so not my favorite thing to do, and i found this on my doorstep which made my day-its so fun to get proper mail plus well im a dork
and im so not good with this whole picture thing. rite will try again. the fun thing about the international national geographic, is that its like something out of 'lost in translation,' theres great pictures inside and on the back cover.
ok at this point im beyond trying to match the pictures with what im writing.
so its a game. match the picture to the correct caption
anyways i really cant wait until this book, 'Life' by Lennart Nilsson comes out. he's the guy that did that famous picture for Life magazine of the 18-week old foetus back in '65.
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