What it’s like being a girl

Yesterday I was talking to my Mom, and she told me (“not to scare you, hon!”) that there is a serial rapist active in a neighborhood not too far from mine; shinnying up drainpipes and entering open second-floor windows to attack the women inside. He does this between 3-5 a.m. and apparently has been stalking the women, as he raped one half an hour after her husband left for work. I had to go and read all about it in the paper, and there’s not much that they know apparently, but they thought the public should be warned.

Now, let me tell you what it’s like to be a girl. Last night I was afraid to go to bed. I stayed up until 2 am just fooling around on the computer, and when I did finally go to bed I couldn’t sleep. I kept jerking awake at any noise, and I felt like sleeping with my phone in my hand. Continue reading »

2nd goal accomplished then

Wow – talk about emotionally draining. But now, The Amber Spyglass is finished, and my eyes are all swollen, and I have to decide whether to shower and face the world, or just sit here all pajama’d up and wallow in aloneness and introspection.

You know, there’s a feeling of isolation in the summer that I don’t get in the winter. In the wintertime, your home is closed up against the cold, but heated and warm and cozy. All the activity and glow is inside, and even when you’re alone you’re still wrapped in something that keeps you away from the stillness and cold outside. It’s solitary but safe.

But in the summer, all the activity and warmth and life is out there, and the cold and stillness is in here. And the space is the same, same closed doors and windows, same couch and rugs and bed and computer, but the feeling is one of isolation, and loneliness, instead of protection.

Oh, and I forgot, third goal accomplished, I am taking the acrylic painting class at the artist’s guild, instead of the drawing class at COCA. Now I just have to go sign up for it. But the Loop will be crazy busy today with nuts who enjoy hot weather – so some other time this week sounds OK for me.

Bus Uncle – He fucks your mother!

Has everyone seen Bus Uncle? It’s worth the watch.

In other news, I went to the doctor (keep doing physical therapy exercises at home, only have to come back if I get worse) and then went to Home Despot to get my flowers ($96! Should have brought Mom, for sure!) and then I get home to find that the new group of amateur roofer/tuckpointers has got their ladders all over my balcony! So I can’t even plant everything today! They had better finish with that shite today, and they better SURE as shit not leave those ladders leaned up from the ground to my balcony (see previous post) or I am gonna go postal on them.

Anyway, my hip and thigh are sore from carrying two small bags of potting soil, so I have to go and rest *eyeroll* Oh, the joys of being infirm!

Also, it’s effing hot.

OK you have GOT to be kidding me.

Are the stars misaligned or something? Look what I got from iTunes this morning.

I am going to assume that this is not a world-wide anti-me conspiracy, and just a laughable coincidence, that these would all get released a week AFTER I was desperately searching for them and wondering why there was no Death Row available for online download. I thought maybe Suge Knight was just being a prick. But no, with delicious timing, here they are! You gotta laugh, cuz it’s funny.