be there, be with

• 2009-12-15

  my life is a limitless folding in on itself. constantly changing, and constant despite the changes. it has a texture you wouldn’t believe.

• 2009-12-06

  feel good, fall in love, be all awesome, be all awesome, be all awesome and stuff.

• 2009-11-21

  Make no doubt: pain is a marker of memory. Pain remembers pain.

  — sportsbabel

• 2009-11-20

  attn:weaziller

  i’ll be living in brooklyn for six weeks (end of november - middle of january) and would like to make your acquaintance.

• 2009-11-16

  new york, end of the line

  11/10: getting to the city, getting to see ellena, getting to eat a delicious dinner, getting flirted with by old italian men, getting to see people i love, getting drunk, getting to astoria and passing out
  
  11/11: tasty coffee drinks, long walks where you unload everything and it sucks but it’s good, donuts, naps and warmth and cooking, improv, sleepover
  
  11/12: early morning, coffee coffee coffee, abigail, coffee coffee, stood up in the city, ps1 with joe and bryan, petey’s burgers, nap time, schramm and mr and new friends, roughing it with a dead cell phone and a late night, coldcoldcold
  
  11/13: hardboiled egg bahn mi, pancakes with quince jam, relaxing on a brisk day, killing hours, EGS in the city with wolfgang, a winwin-win exchange, beer in the burg with spano, rain filled train ride home, two hours talk
  
  11/14: meeting with gina, ontological ethics, getting name-dropped in class, long walks with a big brother, lovely company, broken bottles and beating in the street, more shows, more bars, marco tina nathan karen, more bars, nap on the couch
  
  11/15: re-fucking-lax, bagel, international student revolt, burger, teeth, sleep
  
  11/16: sleeping in until 9:30, waffles, another game of wrong train/right train, smooth flight to florida, rush to walk-in clinic, dropping the Oakland-bomb on mom and dad

• 2009-11-15

  qu’est ce que c’est charmant coeur qui me ferait sentir bien

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  providence

  11/7: bbq pulled lamb sandwich, new friend, shitty bar, crappy air mattress, good night’s sleep on a love seat

  11/8: mi quatemala rain of delicious, walk through the cemetary, walk through the park, scoop of mud pie ice cream and short sleeves in november, womb raider and gorilla hands, surprisingly delicious rhode island pizza, green porno, youtube and pierrot le fou

  11/9: pumpkin french toast with sauteed apples at home, athenaeum aka best library, a fruitless quest for a coat and shoes, whole dudes adventure, scrambled eggs with goat cheese and chilli, bloody mary’s, peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, brown sugar ice cream with molasses swirl, dinner with an old friend i kind of didn’t remember and a new friend who kind of didn’t remember me, catching up

  11/10: birthday, getting on the wrong train, getting on the right train, getting a job, getting a house sitting set up

• 2009-11-07

  bay area

  11/2: sleep,sleep,sleep, coffee, katamari, vegan cheesesteak, mission burrito, san francisco crazy, christopher b. taylor, open containers, anime

  11/3: berkeley, micah and politics, vegan japanese, naps, showers, callie, b.w., homemade arepas with black beans, chard and guacamole, two of my three w’s, fellini’s 8 1/2

  11/4: callie, brunch, napping on the grass in the sunshine, coffee, video games, baker beach

  11/5: callie, indian food, shower, an email offer for some seasonal work at the best job i ever had, lis, bbq seitan cheesesteak, coffees, whiskies, techno, dancing

  11/6: sleeping in, rainy-ness, bernadette and a big ass salad at the de young, whiskey under the covers, cab ride of terror through san francisco driven by ted logan, crazy delicious turkey meatloaf, the most epic and tear-filled adoption story ever, ice cream sundae, passing out

  11/7: sleeping in, showering too long, rushing like hell to catch my flight, sitting in philadelphia airport for way too long, about to see my girl cari in providence, feeling young and in love

• 2009-11-02

  los angeles

  10/20: tampa to dallas to los angeles, car accident

  10/21: breakfast with d, where the wild things are

  10/22: happy family to getty to lakers game

  10/23: badiou on louis althusser, pizza, the cook, the thief, his wife and her lover

  10/24: party with caro and her old hippy friends in venice beach, an absurd amount of food

  10/25: mexico city and the aversion of eye contact, first attempt at dune

  10/26: canter’s, a serious man

  10/27: breakfast with d, drunk before whole foods, in’n’out burger, second attempt at dune

  10/28: vegetarian biscuits and gravy, blackberry pie, drunkenly talking shit about politics

  10/29: barbecue tofu, curry-spinach mashed potato sandwiches, drink and smoke with caro on the porch, upsilon acrux

  10/30: sleep all day, third attempt at dune

  10/31: topanga beach with caro, laundry, ethiopian food defeat followed by ethiopian food victory

  11/01: coastal starlight to oakland (beautiful), 11 hours straight next to some dude who worked for homeland security and would.not.stop.talking, catching up with b.w.

• 2009-10-26

  i believe in the extraordinary life.

  — john g.