Is anybody out there?

Tristram showed this to me. I am sooooo both of those girls.

I have my learner's permit!!!

mood: jubilant

Anybody who likes to read should know about bookmooch.com. It's a website where you can post books you want to give away, then earn points to request books from others. You pay postage on the books you mail, but I imagine it should even out in the end. I've already gotten rid of six books and received one, and two more are on their way to me. Awesome! The site is completely free (with no ads, even) and easy to use. I'm a fan.

Working, working, la la.

mood: busy

"i can kill time pretty effectively on my own schedule, but i can't fall madly in love with you without seeing you and learning who you are. and i think it would be more fun to try to fall madly in love than not to."

mood: nostalgic maybe

If you saw me in the back of a police car, what would you think I had done to get arrested?

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Going down into the basement of a club to pee. The dj announces: it's official. People wall-to-wall, hugging and cheering. Tearing up in the bathroom. What a fucking relief.

To Copley Square for John Kerry's party. Too many sober middle-aged people. The kids gathering outside are more appealing. I swear I'm the first one to chant, "Yes we did."

Police forming around us. Ominous and frightening, till we notice they're smiling.

Following the crowd to the Christian Science Center. Wading in the pool. My feet are numb.

Dancing and singing down Newbury Street with a pseudo marching band. High-fiving strangers. So many people. Hardly any of them over thirty.

Home. Exhausted. Triumphant.

mood: yes we did

You have no idea how much ice cream I've eaten tonight.

mood: blob

I hadn't checked my mail in about two weeks, so I'm not sure how long a particular envelope was sitting in the little basket in my living room before I found it. But holy moly. Thank you.

My first reaction was oh man, I can't accept this, what do I do? But after talking to my mum about it, I decided it was okay to accept it, and I will use it as prescribed. She pointed out that someone(s) wouldn't have left it for me, especially anonymously, if they didn't want me to keep it. I'm really touched that I have people in my life who care about me so much as to do something like that. My mum, my stepdad Duane, and my grandma said to thank you, as well. And I'm sure my cousin will once I have a chance to tell her.

[Oh, good news about my cousin--she was originally being deployed to Iraq, to fly on missions (she's a medic), but now she's scheduled to work in a hospital in Afghanistan, which she says is safer. Hopefully she'll get a visit home to Michigan before she's deployed, and hopefully I can visit her there so I can see everyone at once.]

Now I just have to find the time to visit (anybody want to leave a few spare days in my mailbox? ;) ). That should be doable, though. Thank you for getting me halfway home.

mood: touched

it's that there is no other point.
that's the point.
and so we enjoy ourselves.
awake awake awake!

mood: awake awake awake

You know what Tuesday is? Tuesday is Massachusetts' presidential primary. And y'all are gonna go out and vote. Because it matters, especially this time--don't you try to tell me it doesn't. Vote vote vote. I'll bug you again in a couple days.

P.S. If you honestly don't care, go out and vote for Obama for me. I'll owe you one. I'll owe you two if he wins the primary. Three if he wins the Democratic ticket. And four if he's our next President. I'm so serious.

mood: misanthropic and drained

First off, I do not believe that you are in possession of my purple (or my "purple man," if that's what you meant ... it's all the same).  I received timed, dated images of my purple in a safe location with which I am familiar, after the postmark of your letter.  If you are in possession of my purple and somehow orchestrated my receipt of these images, for whatever reasons of your own, then you are trickier than I suspect, and a much more dangerous foe (and worthy adversary) than I first imagined.

Secondly, which Hollywood Express?  The one closest to the 02139 area code, perhaps?

Thirdly, do you accept Visa?

mood: quixotic