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It turns out, I am pretty good at being a dick to myself. I try really hard to be kind to other people, but apparently it’s open season on my own self. Read on if you want to hear my self-flagellation over a hike I am planning. I know it sounds ridiculous — because it is.
I somehow got myself into a stream-of-consciousness headspace when writing this poem, and it was a strange experience to feel so disconnected from my own body as I wrote. But I think the end result is really, really good.
More random updates from November, including The Kat Hackett Trio, an art show, and what I looked like when I was 15.
Some random updates and observations from November, including Trae Crowder at the Improv, a really expensive sock, and a new way to stop feeling sorry for myself.
I probably sound like a broken record here (man, is that metaphor even relevant anymore?) but I have been having a lot of Big Feelings lately and writing about the is helping me get through them.
I listened to the entirely of Information Society's “Hack” for the first time in probably decades, and I found my concert “tickets” from 1991 for that show and for NIN’s Pretty Hate Machine tour.
My relationship with my body and with food is super fucked-up. I don’t like to eat in front of other people, for fear they will realize how gross and disgusting and unlovable I am.
I am going to two, count ‘em, TWO concerts next year… Nine Inch Nails in March and now, Weird Al in September!
I went out chasing the aurora borealis last night! The short story is that I didn’t see it. But that kind of wasn’t the point.
As a fresh-faced 22-year-old, newly out on my own, I was terrified of becoming boring. How would I manage to keep my funny, sparkly, creative qualities in the face of adulthood and its responsibilities?