I often find myself thinking about the clever titles of my friends’ excellent blogs, how they came to be, why they are what they are. Adela’s has always intrigued me because it speaks so neatly to her nature; though I would have put it at seventyfivefold because it seems to me she can balance [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 16, 2008
What a dream I had.
They almost named me Gillian. It was a close call, by all accounts, but it eventually lost to what my name is now.
The other thing they would have liked to call me, which they did, before I was born, was Geedra. “You see,” my father told everyone who asked about my [...]
June 15, 2008
Never sleep again.
I guess this kind of thing happens all the time in this city. You can see it every day. Neither is the rest of the world immune to it – though when that much of human nature is crammed into such a small space, the probability of it vastly increases. These are [...]
June 7, 2008
Sigh.
It’s helped me a lot to read The Confluence. Quite a bit like therapy. In a way.
I confess I’m also a little excited, because this is the first time in my voting life that I’m approaching the general elections with no idea what so ever of whom or what I’ll vote [...]
June 3, 2008
Nikolai.
In the interest of keeping my mind off the primaries today and the noisome mainstream media speculation on the results thereof….
We were wandering around in SoHo this weekend, sort of aimlessly but also with a partial aim (i.e., to find a birthday present for my friends’ dear child, the Insurmountably Wonderful Jack. He [...]
