what a day!
in Thoughts and Feelings
as area code, collarbone, date, day, exercise, feeling, friend, friendlier place, High, high line, kind, Line, martial arts, mine, nothing, romance, roommates, shoulders, state, stranger, sun, time, time one, today, train, warmup, weather, whoa, word
Today was an undeniably good day.
I met David, a friend of mine who I have not seen for some time, and together, we strolled the High Line. It was once an elevated train here in New York, but has for some time just been empty. But now it’s renovated and planted all over with gardens and a lovely, among-the-highrises stroll. And the weather was absolutely perfect.
A little too perfect. Because now my shoulders and collarbone are sun kissed. Okay, more like I look like the sun made-out with me. I am, in a word: burnt.
And then I went and did about four hours of martial arts. Whoa. I am exhausted. But feeling pretty happy. There is nothing like moving about. It puts me in this heightened state; it solves my problems. I am not sure why, but the world seems a far friendlier place when I am moving.
Oh, and I auditioned for this DVD exercise/vocal thing last week, called The Broadway Warmup, and I was offered the job today. Nice.
In other news, the stranger with whom I unprecedentedly agreed to go on a date last week has been texting me. I did not, however, text him back today. I need to just say that I am not really interested in what he is interested in. Or I guess I could just not respond, but that sounds mean. Anyway, a pretty sad part is that I cannot, for the life of me, remember the guy’s name. So I refer to him among my friends by his area code. “I think I need to tell 917 that I am just not interested in any kind of romance,” I told David.
“Just don’t respond; 917 will get the message,” he replied.
But 917. How pitiful. Kind of funny, though, too.
pictures, and just one word. well, a lot of one words.
in Loved Ones, photography
as frog, image, lot, manatee, mantatee, paper, round, sandwich, Split, weekend, word
It’s the weekend round here, and since not a lot of people like to read blogs on the weekends, I thought I’d post some pics that I like.
And I am limiting myself to writing just one word for each image.
(gulp)
stuck.
sandwich.
paper…?
split.
frog.
sweet.
manatee!
the end.
road trip to georgetown.
in Loved Ones, photography, Thoughts and Feelings
as adorable baby, brand new baby, brick, brick and stone, car, cobblestone, cupcake, cupcakes, face, friend, friend lindsay, georgetown, kind, kind of magic, life, Lindsay, Line, lot, person, road, road trip, Saturday, senya, South, stone, straight face, telephone pole, today, trip, week, word, world
I mentioned to my friend Lindsay just last week that some of the best cupcakes in the world are in Georgetown. I mentioned that they are even worth a road trip. “Let’s do it!” she said, and she made good her word today. Because, you know, a lot of people talk about things and then [...]
when words have meaning again and the meaning is sweet.
in I Lift My Eyes Up, Loved Ones, Thoughts and Feelings
as Christian, God, lack, life, long time, marriage, Peace, Quentin Tarantino, shock, way, word
I can’t go through this again, I said, suddenly serious. Yes, you could, my friend Christian told me, just as serious. No, it’d kill me. I can’t, I just can’t, I kept repeating. No, you’d get through it. Just like you get through all of life, he assured me. And then I told him I’d [...]
the breakup box.
in Funny Stuff, photography, Thoughts and Feelings
as beautiful song, box, cannot, color purple, D. Well, God, healthcare reform, I, Jason, kind word, nice, something, time, time of death, vague notion, word
He said I’d just be ready one day, but I didn’t believe him. My counselor, I mean. I nodded and went through all the motions of agreement, but I could hardly imagine it. I guess because I’d never been there before. It’s like trying to describe the color purple when you’re blind; when you’ve never [...]
bust your windows.
in MP3, Thoughts and Feelings
as accident, door, drew, facebook, horrible mess, kind of fascination, negative word, New Zealand, nieces and nephews, something, song, word
Someone told me that for every negative word you hear, it takes seven positive words to combat it. I wonder if that works for memories. If so, I’m gonna need some great ones. I’m talking a trip to New Zealand. No, better make that Narnia. Complete with talking animals. And they better say some really [...]
merry christmas:truly he taught us to love one another
in I Lift My Eyes Up
as doggone, Faith, Ginger, ginger snaps, God, last time, laugh, lot, resurrection, time, word
Faith would be a lot easier if it didn’t call for believing in things so doggone invisible, I thought as I got up to grab one of the ginger snaps I had just baked. And yes, I thought the word doggone. And yes, I just baked ginger snaps. Turned out well, too. Not that I’m [...]
bones
in I Lift My Eyes Up, Thoughts and Feelings
as amp, front porch, God, google search, light amp, pile of bones, sentimental/inspiration, skin, something, Voice, wet clothes, word
I wrote this when I was going through it a while back. I like the word it because it’s so vague. Even though it doesn’t specify exactly what it was that I was going through, you can rest assured that I was certainly in the midst of it. So yeah, it’s nice to be able [...]
it looks like fall, it feels like winter, and I am random.
in Funny Stuff, photography, Thoughts and Feelings
as Amos, black squirrels, Canada, Candy Land, date, Drop Mountains, Forrest, free health care, God, gum drop, ottawa, peppermint stick, right, Sesame Street, something, thoughts/life, word, yip
It’s funny, it looks like autumn, the leaves are all lit up like christmas morning and all that, but it’s about 20 or so degrees outside. But I guess, technically, it is still fall. At least in the sense that the canal is not yet frozen over.Word on the street is that once it does [...]
