I’d like to apologize for my spotty correspondence (wow! What a hard word to spell!) this semester. I swear—it’s not you, it’s me. I have been buried under a mountain of schoolwork, making it difficult to eat, much less write about it. But never fear—this blog’s neglect is only temporary! Next week is spring break, and I [...]
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February 25, 2010
I’m Hungry! I Think! Also: Wednesdays
It’s nasty out, a twisted mixture of rain and snow whose combined effect is like having the city sneeze on you over and over again, and I think the cold has frozen my stomach. I’ve had nothing to eat today but two halves of an egg sandwich and several cups of crappy office hot-beverages. I [...]
February 22, 2010
And Another Thing!
This site doesn’t have a blogroll, because other blogs are terrible, but a guy in my office has one which is actually quite nice! I mention it because in its title (Lunch Poems), design (mostly negative space with a little picture at the top) and general mode (musing), it is rather like mine. In a [...]
February 22, 2010
Exercises In Hairy Fish
I’m writing a play about hot chicken. Saying that aloud it sounds funny, but anyone who’s been paying attention knows this is something I’ve had on my mind. I’d rather be writing a gripping, thoughtful Baltimore crime drama, but that’s a subject I’m less familiar with. (Perhaps it is my drowsy-typing, but I first spelled Baltimore “Balitomore,” [...]
February 15, 2010
Insomnia Over Medium
Asked to describe my current state of consciousness, I would need one word only.
Loathsome.
I came to wakefulness with a start at around 5:30 AM—two hours ago—in a fevered state apparently brought on by unremembered unpleasant dreams. It was a relief to berobe myself, drink a glass of water, and pad to and from the bathroom. [...]
January 6, 2010
Mild Excitement!
Mild excitement is, of course, the best kind. Lunch Matters—and by that I mean I—is back in an office, hard at work doing…well, something. I’ve only been here three minutes and they haven’t informed me yet. A return to employment means a return to the lunch hour, the twenty minute window in which this foolish [...]
