I am not putting on earrings today, in protest of the fact that I have to be up and about at all. One of my co-workers has been sick, and I grudgingly agreed to cover her classes if she still wasn’t able to come in to work today. I then stayed up until 2 am [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2010
to Paris
February 6, 2010 – 10:33 am
Dear Paris,
I had forgotten you died. I always saw you as living beyond them, joining the city of mourners, knowing but never understanding that your love, who died — as you thought — on the morning you were to marry her, was never yours at all. That underneath your measured courtship, your civil gallantry, two [...]
reverse paristalsis
February 3, 2010 – 2:53 pm
You guys, this is kind of gross, and I’m sorry for that, but I can’t say what I want to say without going there. So… this post is about vomit. And if that’s going to bother you, maybe look elsewhere.
There’s been a lot of heartbreak and loss in my world over the last four months. [...]
reading Rorty, part 2
February 2, 2010 – 5:27 pm
Well, my boyfriend Richard Rorty and I are at odds again. I’m kind of glad… there’s a piquancy in the blend of “dear man, you are brilliant!” and “dear man, you are out of your fluffy mind!” that I would have been sad to lose.
So here’s where we stand. One of Rorty’s biggest shticks is [...]
