03.11.19.we Pizza Haiku- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Last week, after leaving a Goth event, Nora and I found ourselves in a pizza shop late at night. This is also how we had our first "date" and so she composed this extemporanaeous haiku for the occasion: ...http://goatee.net/2003/11#_19we 03.11.18.tu The Funny Thing- (Found July 5, 2008 ) When I was thinking of how sick I am of school work and imagined what I would do with some time off, I laughed when I realized the irony of my fantasy: lounging about while reading books or catching up on some writing! Of course, I'd actually be able to enjoywhat I read and not have to cram a book a day, and I could step away from the computer when my hands were starting to hurt. ...http://goatee.net/2003/11#_18tu 03.11.17.mo Sad Ficus- (Found July 5, 2008 ) For the past week my ficus has been dropping leaves like mad. It never did this before and we were hoping it might be Autumn in the new apartment. Then I noticed that it has these brown spots. They're very much like those that my older aloes sometimes get, and which I never identified. But they were never a matter of death for my aloe. ...http://goatee.net/2003/11#_17mo 03.11.14.fr Uncounted Casualties- (Found July 5, 2008 ) I feel genuinely sorry for those Americans stuck in Afghanistan and Iraq: ...http://goatee.net/2003/11#_14fr 03.11.09.su Place- (Found July 5, 2008 ) This place; what am I The chill autumn air lies on a bed of water ...http://goatee.net/2003/11#_09su 03.11.01.sa Halloween- (Found July 5, 2008 ) The Halloween Critical Mass Ride through Manhattan and over to Queens was fabulous. Riding through the broad avenues with a few hundred other bicyclists is surreal: the lights of Times Square, the view from the Queensborough Bridge, and screaming and ringing our bells as we rocket through the pick-up loop of the Penn Station terminal. The mood was positive, only fools still ran serious errands: Critical Mass, the Halloween Parade, and the Messenger Race all in one night! Most folks were out...http://goatee.net/2003/11#_01sa |