Coming up for air
May. 25th, 2007 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theatokos*Spent last weekend in damp, verdant Seattle. I couldn't look out the window at the dry, concrete sprawl of the Bay Area as we were landing. It was just too depressing.
*Seattle, Capitol Hill especially, is a dog town. I saw more wonderful, happy, big dogs there in one hour than I've seen all year here.
*Weddings weddings weddings
*It's a media glut! Three new CDs - remixes of Feist (how catchy is that Mushaboom song?!), Rufus Wainwright's newest, and Bjork's Volta (weird and amazing. of course.). Saw Dream Girls the other night. Only a so-so movie, but so well cast. Holy shit, did anyone else know that Eddie Murphy could sing like that? And JENNIFER HUDSON. WOW. In books, I plowed through Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and I really liked it. So well written, so balanced. I should write something more thoughtful about it, but really, it's all been said before and it's as good as everyone says it is. I am now ripping my way through Manifesta, a book on third wave feminism that came out in 2000. Makes me want to be a little less self absorbed and go out and do something for others.
*Got fitted for contact lenses for the first time ever. I love glasses, but it's time to mix it up. I've been wearing glasses for just about 25 years and the eye doctor asked me what took so long. Coulda smacked him. Even funnier, the nice lady eye doctor wouldn't let me stick the contact in my own eye and I had to fight the urge to punch her when she stuck that plastic disc in my eye. I was like, "BITCH, get your finger outta my eye!!" I didn't say that out loud, but fer real. I had a physical urge to smack her. Eyelashes keep things OUT of the ol' eye and here we are sticking shit in it. Unnatural.
*My life is full, over flowing. Don't often have time to process anything intellectual or emotional. When not in a flurry of doing I am diving into the abyss of a book or a movie.
*Seattle, Capitol Hill especially, is a dog town. I saw more wonderful, happy, big dogs there in one hour than I've seen all year here.
*Weddings weddings weddings
*It's a media glut! Three new CDs - remixes of Feist (how catchy is that Mushaboom song?!), Rufus Wainwright's newest, and Bjork's Volta (weird and amazing. of course.). Saw Dream Girls the other night. Only a so-so movie, but so well cast. Holy shit, did anyone else know that Eddie Murphy could sing like that? And JENNIFER HUDSON. WOW. In books, I plowed through Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and I really liked it. So well written, so balanced. I should write something more thoughtful about it, but really, it's all been said before and it's as good as everyone says it is. I am now ripping my way through Manifesta, a book on third wave feminism that came out in 2000. Makes me want to be a little less self absorbed and go out and do something for others.
*Got fitted for contact lenses for the first time ever. I love glasses, but it's time to mix it up. I've been wearing glasses for just about 25 years and the eye doctor asked me what took so long. Coulda smacked him. Even funnier, the nice lady eye doctor wouldn't let me stick the contact in my own eye and I had to fight the urge to punch her when she stuck that plastic disc in my eye. I was like, "BITCH, get your finger outta my eye!!" I didn't say that out loud, but fer real. I had a physical urge to smack her. Eyelashes keep things OUT of the ol' eye and here we are sticking shit in it. Unnatural.
*My life is full, over flowing. Don't often have time to process anything intellectual or emotional. When not in a flurry of doing I am diving into the abyss of a book or a movie.