funnel vision.

david brooks, you eloquent, deeply thoughtful conservative:
new views on character traits.

untitled.

one of my coworkers at the post, hf, 26. she works at some restaurant downtown as well. about a month or so ago, she was waiting on this guy, and he was trying to pick her up. he ended up giving her his number, written on a MOMA ticket stub. but she was seeing someone, so she never called. then last night at the paper, she randomly thought of him and decided to google him.

he died mountain climbing in wyoming LAST WEEK. he was 23.

my sister.

love this.

this is 30. (now this is happening.)

we're at gb's.

right now, lp is pumping breast milk in the other room.

more (crass) terms.

MEBL - minimum expenditure before lay.

her mebl was prohibitively high.

CPL - cost per lay.

we dated for a while, driving the cpl down.

in other news.

i cant remember the last time i flushed a toilet using my hand. years back i developed a phobia about touching toilet handles, and i started flushing with my foot. if the handle's high up, like on a urinal (where else would it be high up im wondering now?), and no one's around, i comically lift my leg up and give the handle a kick, but otherwise use my elbow.

it may well be years since i touched a toilet handle.

two of us.

it made her sad to realize that in spite of their so often having the same reactions, the same feelings, they never would reach the same conclusions, because their respective aims in life were almost diametrically opposed.
-paul bowles, the sheltering sky

i think i gotta stop rereading these books i love, like this summer's revelations, end zone and the corrections, because while they inspire me to write, the rereading, the familiarity borne of it, tacitly coaxes me into trying to write in an approximation of the author's particular voice, and it comes off all hackneyed and banal.

on the other hand, you pick up something new and exciting every time you reread great writing.

it's a tough life.