Monthly Archives: June 2009
clothes make the woman
today i’m wearing my change-my-life(-for-the-better) outfit — no, not tights and a cape. although maybe i should have gone with that. just a black and brown houndstooth skirt and black top. i feel very academic slash professional. i think it’s the houndstooth. we’ll see what comes of it all.
ce weekend
i had a great weekend. my brother drove down from NYC (he is there for a few weeks working), and i took him on an absolutely whirl-wind trip around the city. central square, wagamama at fanuiel hall, mike’s pastries, the old north church, memorial drive/charles river. freedom trail, fenway park area, the proposal (the movie), harvard square, pinnochio’s pizza, shopping. and then some orangina and the Egypt-USA match, which had ridiculous odds. but we won. against ridiculous odds. and advanced to the semi-finals. against ridiculous odds. woot.
the waiting place
when i graduated from high school, someone (who?) gave me a copy of Dr. Seuss’s Oh! The Places You’ll Go!, which has, I think become something of a classic graduation present. And for good reason. I heart that book.
But today I realized that I somehow ended up in the dreaded waiting place.
You can get so confused
that you’ll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place……for people just waiting.
Waiting for a train to go
or a bus to come, or a plane to go
or the mail to come, or the rain to go
or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow
or waiting around for a Yes or a No
or waiting for their hair to grow.
Everyone is just waiting.Waiting for the fish to bite
or waiting for wind to fly a kite
or waiting around for Friday night
or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake
or a pot to boil, or a Better Break
or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants
or a wig with curls, or Another Chance.
Everyone is just waiting.
I think I am there. Waiting to get out, I suppose. Waiting to find the bright places where the Boom Bands are playing. Waiting. I didn’t know I was waiting for anything until today — I think I thought I was still getting myself in order — but I think I’m in as much as order as I will ever be. And now I am just waiting. Waiting for the year to end, so I can quit my job. Waiting for the weather to be better. Waiting for a better idea. Waiting for 5:00 pm. Waiting.
Obviously, the June gloom needs to end soon. Otherwise — DOOM!
precis no. 5
- June has been inordinately gray this year – enveloped in rain and clouds – and the sadness that Winter left behind has had no incentive to leave.
hunch dot com
so i found this new website, www.hunch.com, that makes decisions for you! not randomly, like a magic 8 ball or anything like that. no, this site asks you a series of questions, and based on your answer gives you your real answer.
you can’t ask super deep stuff — its designed for things like “what should i have for lunch?” “should i quit my job?” “what’s the best profession for me?” “what city should i live in?” — things like that.
and, no lie, after answering 5 or 6 questions, it told me i should become either a secondary school teacher or an editor. no lie.
also its super fun because you just keep answering questions (or skipping them if you dont want to answer). fun questions and tricky ones. you build a profile as you answer and it claims to tailor your main answer according to your profile. i dunno how, but i totally heart it. heart heart heart.
(you can also ask it: “should i do my homework?” “should i write a novel?” “what magazine should i read?” or “should i ask for a raise.” uber fun)
captain america again
at some point, somewhere, i wrote a post or two about the death of captain america. and for the life of me, i cannot find it. not here, not on my old blog… where oh where is that post? aiya.
anyway. maybe it doesn’t matter that captain america was killed on (march 2007), or that the captain’s buddy donned his captain mantle for awhile… maybe’s it’s all moot now. now that he’s back!
(where are those posts?!?? argh.)
