honestly Adele is one of those that I will listen to for the rest of my adult life
my kids will be like “mom who even is this?” and i’ll be like…you have no idea the cool essence of adele
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honestly Adele is one of those that I will listen to for the rest of my adult life
my kids will be like “mom who even is this?” and i’ll be like…you have no idea the cool essence of adele
note the archaic Word.
Bourbon Requiem
I’ve been drinking out of a wide-mouth, pint-sized ball jar glass lately. Usually water, but tonight bourbon. There’s a spot in the glass and I always think it’s a bug that I don’t know whether it’s inside the drink or outside. It looks like a little bug, like the little crawley kinds that only show up when you’re eyes are sweating or suddenly floating in your drink. But it’s not a bug, it’s just a bubble. A flaw in the glass that’s the exact shape and color of a black sesame seed on top of a bun.
I love the practicality of this glass. It’s so big and upright compared to most jars, and it’s got that really nice fruit design on one side, but on the other side it’s got the cup and ounce measurements. Tonight I’ve had maybe 4 ounces of bourbon in here. Usually it’s 12 ounces of water and ice.
Bourbon makes me feel warm and soft.
Litany for a Season
School starts in exactly one month. I feel equal parts ready for fall and as if summer just started.
The best parts about summer are the easy, lazy attitudes. Going to the beach, everything glistening with sweat or illuminator, popsicles and fruit. Snacks by the pool, long days where the sun doesn’t set until 9pm. Wearing whatever and not caring how you look. Going barefoot. Fireflies. Swimming. Rain: sunshowers, thunderstorms, big rolling black clouds, the smell of summer after it rains. Summer smells so good. I’m not ready for it to end this time.
But I can’t wait for fall. Jeans every day, with tshirts or sweaters. Hair that doesn’t get frizzy and makeup that won’t melt off after five minutes. Cinnamon smells and comfort food, warming up the whole house. Feeling cozy wrapped up in a sweater and socks at home at 6:30. The smell of fall swooping in with the wind. Hard rains that clear the skies and bring cold fronts. The rosy, earthy tones and luxurious fabrics. Boots, scarves, hats. The unmistakable freshness that makes you wish you lived near an apple orchard for once in your damn life.
The change in seasons is my favorite. I like feeling sad that the one we’re phasing out of is coming to a close and looking forward to all of the fresh possibilities a new season brings.
im tired of this
Writing is a burden. I’m ready to make real things with this, put words together in a way that makes sense. A whole pie of words, not just a piece here and some leftover crust there. Start to finish, concept - research - writing - editing.
I’ve had too many dealings with the animal kingdom today.
To begin with I’ve been in the middle of a standoff with my cat who decided last night, that instead of using his convenient cat door to the outside world and public toilet, he would pee directly in the middle of my perfectly made bed. There are ants invading my bathroom and car, weird in the bathroom and a burden in the car. Not to mention I had a weird standoff with a deer at dusk.
And to top it all off there was a spider staring at me during my relaxing midnight shower.
Pie is my favorite subject
I could talk about pie for hours. I could make pies all day every day.
Every time I make a pie I’m surprised at how good it is. Pie’s are so deceptively simple and they make me want to die.
I could eat pie forever.
David Bowie Came to Dinner
On the night that David Bowie came to dinner we had various types of skewers and listened to jazz. Because what are you going to listen to when David Bowie is around? Something that predates David Bowie. Something that is not influenced by David Bowie.
It was a casual evening, cozy and lots of fun. Before dinner we had your typical cheese and fruit skewers, smaller, lighter, and entirely delightful. A large variety of cheese cubes, such as sharp cheddar, smoked gouda, pepper jack, munster, and colby jack. As for the fruit, there was pineapple, strawberries, green grapes, mango, and raspberries.
Skewers, I feel, are great for casual, social food gatherings. Skewers are like the beaded necklaces of food. Combine any variety and pattern of fruits, vegetables or meat that you want. And the fun doesn’t stop with the savory. Dessert skewers are a ton of fun. Take for example the Strawberry Shortcake Skewer – pieces of sponge cake alternating with strawberries, topped with whipped cream. Maybe you’re more into the donut-hole skewer, or you prefer all fruit all the time. Whatever combination suits your fancy, it probably looks good on a stick.
David Bowie is a big fan of skewers because it allows him, in all of his incarnations, to express himself.
At this point you may be curious as to why I’ve only mentioned one guest so far. Well, the answer to that question is simple: I only invited David Bowie. However, I invited 6 David Bowies. All unique, and all down for a shish kebob shindig.
Free Coffee
I left you and rolled up to the Books a Million to browse for a bit (to look at the most beautiful copy of Little Women, which I didn’t find, but did find out hat I only have part one so I have to sort out part two soon) and get coffee.
So while I’m browsing this black lady and her young daughter approach me and ask if I know of a church nearby where she and her baby can get some food, and I say hat I don’t, sorry. Then I walked slowly over to get coffee, trying to read the menu before I got to the counter because all I want is coffee and I want it for less than $4 because I’m dealing in quarters.
So there’s a counter with stools where a little black boy is sitting talking to the larger black dude (young to mid 20’s?), who watches me walk up. So instead of continuing to try and figure out how to get classic coffee I said “um, I just want coffee?”
And he said “Just coffee? Do you want iced, blended, hot coffee?”
I said “hot coffee,”
he said “ I have midnight blahblah already but I can brew some regular, it will be about 5 minutes.” And I said that midnight would be fine.
So he went to get the coffee and I began to count quarters in my hand. “No room for cream thanks,” and he set the coffee in front of me and I asked how much and he said don’t worry about it and walked back to the little boy and I said thanks, smiled, and dropped some quarters in the tip jar and he appreciatively said “you didn’t have to do that” and I took my midnight coffee and got into my car and texted you and laughed a little bit to myself.
The End!
Smell Sensations - 3.25.15
Smells are amazing, complex, and never exactly the same combination. A Sensual Memory.
Coffee – old and bitter Fresh outside Air of Spring Sweet caramel cookie cake Aveeno bodywash and African Black soap
The First Pie I ever made was a Blueberry Pie with a crust from Betty Crocker
Look how fresh-faced and eager I was!
I had carried that pie plate from my house in North-Central Florida, across to the Panhandle, and all over Franklin County like Lucille carried her hatbox across the country in Crazy in Alabama.
This was the day that I finally did utilize the pie plate. I felt post-anxiety fresh after a week of dizziness and no appetite, and I was damned and determined to make my pie fantasy a reality.
A List of Reasons Why I Won’t be Writing Today
Facebook distracted me and now I don’t feel motivated.
My stomach hurts, maybe I need water.
I drank too much water, and my stomach still hurts.
My jeans are too tight because this is the first time wearing them after washing.
I don’t have the right music to listen to.
Even if I did have the right music, my speakers plug in and there goes my fan and I can’t write without a fan because I won’t be able to breath.
My earphones are across the room on the floor.
I won’t be able to write a masterpiece.
Isn’t reading writerly enough?
I don’t know what I want to write about.
Even if I knew what I wanted to write about, I don’t know how to use grammar.
Even if I knew what I wanted to write about, shouldn’t I plan it out?
Planning it out is boring and makes me lose my enthusiasm.
Who’s even going to read it?
Is this for my portfolio??!
If it’s for my portfolio it needs to be better than a random thought turned into a paragraph, I can’t think of something right now!
Maybe I don’t really need to work on my portfolio right now, it’s only May 6!
I should find a recipe for later, it will give me something to work for.
I really need coffee if I’m going to be serious about writing.
But coffee will only perpetuate this stomachache.
Typing with all these rings makes me hyper-aware of my fingers which is not conducive.
I really need to clean my room before I can be productive.
I’ve been meaning to take this nail polish off for days, now seems like the perfect time, don’t you think?
Maybe I should work on other aspects of my portfolio, like start up a twitter again.
Or hey, maybe I’ll make a list for media projects, that’s productive.
Phew, I’ve almost filled a whole page, do I really need to write anymore?
Fin.
2015 will be the summer I explore Jam
Something incredible is happening in this centrally located student lounge
Student Lounge, 12pm, 2/5/15
Every 5-10 seconds someone walks in or out of the heavy push door, which then chunks loudly into place before almost immediately being shoved open again by some unsuspecting student who is then subjected to a lot of collective hate from everyone in the area who is trying to relax or concentrate. If there is a pause between slams that lasts upwards of 12 seconds, you can feel everyone start to tense in anticipating. Bracing themselves. And on the rare occasion that we reach 15 or, god forbid, 20 seconds of silence, you can hear someone sigh exasperatedly or swear under their breath when the door is once again barged through. At times the door opens in a rapid succession, one person after the other – k-chunk k-chunk k-chunk - for an astoundingly loud 10 seconds, once the door closes and does not immediately open again, there is a collective sigh. A feeling of connection and irritation channels through those of us who have been here for 15 minutes or more seeking solitude. People become increasingly agitated and begin to loath all other students. This hatred will stick with them as sorely they continue this semester, then bitterly they finish their time at school. Jaded.
Everyone except this one guy....
The phrase "down to clown" keeps popping into my head today. I'll see a picture that I really like, or some music video I've been meaning to watch, and as I click the music video somewhere in my head i say "ah yeahh, i'm down to clown!"
Well, no. I'm not down to clown. I hate the phrase down to clown and I resent that somewhere in my brain I felt that it was okay to a) say this at all, and b) say this in regards to myself! I find it very disrespectful to think this about myself. Down to Clown. What does it even mean?
Do you ever think about how the wind is like waves and we are living in an ocean of air?
Can’t the layers of our atmosphere extend to include the water on earth, meaning that they layer of earths atmosphere inhabited by us, the troposphere, above sea level is just another ocean?
The tides are weather and just as there are whirlpools in water so are there cyclones in air. Changes of temperature, calm days and rough days. The only real difference is that we are operating inside a gas ocean rather than a liquid ocean. Things move at a different rate and are affected in a different way. The patterns of a gas ocean are not the same as those of a liquid ocean.
In the same way that the air is too thin for us to breath on top of a mountain, as we near the next layer of atmosphere, it is equally difficult for a fish to breath our thin air compared to her heavy water. They can’t navigate our atmospheric ocean very well and we can’t navigate theirs very well.
Why are the ocean and our atmosphere the ones that cultivate life? What’s so special about these two oceans that is different from all the rest? Consider also that the deeper into the ocean you go the more mysterious it is. Yet another oceanic atmosphere level that is heavier than all the rest.
Atoms and the Solar System
So if atoms act like tiny solar systems, with the nucleus as the sun, and electrons orbiting around, let’s look at it further.
Equal negative and positive charges create more balance.
The negative electron planets form in groups of eight, filing the orbit (and working outward to the next orbital ring).
Now, ever since we nixed Pluto, there are 8 planets traveling around the sun. 4 terrestrial and 4 Jovian – a nice balance.