A poem for Dean, on her birthday day! Happy Birthday!

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alliance

"You have to make an alliance with your anguish," he said,
"not wage war against it." And I thought of all the fists
I had shaken at misfortune: games lost
because the shot clock ran out,
a good meal scorched in a forgotten oven,
money dropped on a dress worn only once,
the bully in 6th grade, the math test in 9th,
the wrong outfit at Halloween.
But of course, this isn't what he meant.

If I were brave enough, I'd tell you how my heart
has raged for love, stretched thin as a high wire.
If I were brave enough, I'd tell you
how my body has been fighting to stay upright
on every precipitous downhill the city
throws at it. If I were brave enough,
I'd climb into your lap and weep with longing.
All I can say is that any attempt at beauty and hope
is land-mined with failure.
And so the perilous track-making begins.
Wending our way through,
there are possible clutches at sunlight, at windows, at yes.
We are each of us inches from death.
We are each of us inches from life.
We are each of us inches from one another.


-Maya Stein

This is a DW-origin crospost, oh noes. Feel free to comment on LJ or the original post here.

I've been out of the world since Friday, and I'd kind of like to stay out of it a little while longer, so I'm just popping in to wish heyginger a very, very happy, slightly belated, presentless birthday. You're my favourite (despite the presentlessness).

This is a DW-origin crospost, oh noes. Feel free to comment on LJ or the original post here.

I fail at time management. Chris Pine, take me away from all this.

Happy Canada Day (ugh, I don't like nationalism, but I do love living here, and it is the best place on Earth, even if I wish the government would stop using my tax dollars to tell everybody else that so they'll relocate their corporate offices to downtown Richmond, buy a few Mercedeses for their company fleet, and lease some executive penthouses on False Creek, because BC being the best place on Earth is my personal opinion! It shouldn't be government policy! UGH, FRIENDLY CANADIAN FASCISM).



Via nixwilliams.

eta: Matthew Good never gets invited to Canada Day parties, because he insists upon talking about child poverty.

The end.

PS: I am looking forward to the "What a Catch" video, even though I a) don't think it should be a single (ugh, srsly, wtf), and b) the video in my head is way better than whatever nautical tomfoolery they've decided to go with (this is quite often the case with FOB videos, actually--hire me for that directation job thar, Pete!).

1. Ahahaha, awesome STXI vid to a Journey song. It's labelled Kirk & Spock, but it's totally all the slashiest bits of the movie (I want to complain here about how a character having a girlfriend doesn't preclude the epic, transdimensional MFEOness, but I think I should just write the K/U/S fic instead. If I could write at all, bleh). Also, if I'd done this vid (lol no), I would've made Kirk the smalltown girl. Just saying. I'm not a fan of Kirk always being the girl, but goddamn, New Kirk often being the girl (when the dynamic is intentionally heteronormative) works for me.

2. One of the guys on the morning radio show I like made the "Wed Wings" fuck up today and I laaaaaaaughed. Oh Dan Rydell, I miss you.

3. Somebody claiming to actually be named Shannon Stumph commented on the last bit of story I posted, saying she found it by Googling herself (NEVER EVER DO THAT, oh my gosh, Mikeyway is a wise man). I Googled her too, and there are apparently Stumphs right here in the Lower Mainland, which kind of freaks me out, idk. It might actually be a fairly common name, but having an uncommon last name has taught me that everyone with a given weird surname must be related everyone else with that name. All the time.

4. I kind of want to watch some s1 SPN, because I miss Dean, but right now I'm feeling very much like all the things about Sam I hate, so I don't think it would be a good idea. Ugh, over-identifying with a character you dislike most of the time is not of the good.

5. The VIW course yesterday was pretty good--more about shifting paradigms and challenging workplace conditions that contribute to violence (which is good and totally should be taught and done, etc.) than about conflict resolution and how to deal when violent situations occur (which would be more useful in the interim), but whatevs, my union.

I think that's all I feel like telling you people about today. Have a good one.

eta: Happy Birthday, Pete Wentz. Thirty looks good on you, don't fuck it up. ♥

I'm awful at birthdays. I only remember this one 'cause it's exactly a week after my partner's and a week before mine. Anyway--

HAPPY BIRTHDAY heyginger!!!

I would've writed you a present, but something ate my writting ability. I hope you have/had an absolutely fantastic day (measured by a system of your choice). I think you are probably handling 30 with much more aplomb than I am handling the mere prospect of 25. You're a very great person and I am exceedingly glad to know you (more! Adjectives! Adverbs!).

♥!

1. Happy belated birthday to adellyna. I suck at birthdays!

2. Happy actual birthday to sofiaviolet. I hope it is lovely!

3. Also happy actual birthday to my brother from another mother, estrellada--the Pete in my Patrick, the Dean in my Sam, the soy in my vanilla latte, the gold sparkles in my dildo. She is in California right now, but will be home tonight! I am picking her up from the airport, yay! Please don't die in a fiery crash, Tilleh!

( prezint! from 'document'! )

Today is my last non-notice-given day at work. By lunchtime on Monday, everyone will hate me. I'm not sure if I care or not.

The end!

It was The Other Other Andypants's birthday yesterday! Yay Andrew John Hurley!

Who is nominiminated as PETA's sexiest vegetarian (all vegans are vegetarians, but not all vegetarians are vegans!). So is Pete, which makes absolutely no fucking sense (Pete hearts meat!), but whatever.

End transmission.

PS: Probably it is only because their names sound alike. Peter, PETA? Eh? Y/Y?