Just to taunt me?

Why is God putting all the good jobs in Florida?

Seneca had a stone camel, too.

Remember when malls had fountains and fountain-related pools? It was some kind of law. I don't understand why they don't anymore. I mean, it's environmentally sustainable and healthy and everything you could want in a mall. Some kid probably bonked his head while reaching for a penny and now we ALL have to suffer.

Stupid kids.

Don't say I never warned you

Watch out for guys with limps.

Elly, speaking truth to power. Or something.

"I firmly believe that swimsuit sizes do not reflect reality even more than anything else."

I want to be a Mediaeval Baebe

Just look at the dresses.

Oh. They can sing, too.

Ealish, are you with me?

Set a course for adventure

For you, for Valentine's day, some quotes. Use with caution.

What happiness to be beloved; and O,
What Bliss, ye gods, to love!
--Goethe

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of life in this world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.
--Oscar Wilde

Life's short and we never have enough time for the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.
--Henri Frederic Amiel

Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?
--Ovid

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
--Billie Holiday

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
--Mrs. Patrick Campbell

I want to do with you
What spring does
With the cherry trees.
--Pablo Neruda


Oh hasten not this loving act,
Rapture where self and not-self meet:
My life has been the awaiting you
Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
--Paul Valery

What happened while I was gone?

We used to be a hardy lot. We used to see forecasts for six inches of snow and laugh. Nothing short of three feet could dampen our spirits. Now when the prediction is 1-3 inches -- falling over a whole day, mind you -- we get a winter storm advisory? That's not advisory-worthy; it's what's called FEBRUARY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.

What are we, a Carolina? ARE WE NOT MEN? I AM SPARTICUS!

story idea

or requirement of the right guy (where "right" = "willing to play along"):

getting to know each other only through e-mail quizzes. Preferably those written by 12-year-olds.

(Or Ea's and mine. Ea we should so do that again.)

And that's just the beginning

if I could make the decisions, I’d have the entertainment and sports industries fund retirement homes. And stars would have to visit monthly in order to get paid.

What I miss about Florida

• Too Jay's
• Memories of India
• PR's
• everything Disney: hotels, restaurants, the very curves in the pathways, how it's always there for excitement on any given day
• being 45 minutes from the ocean
• smelling the ocean from 45 minutes away
  
• Tony's deli/bakery
• the houses in my neighborhood
• the PORCH
• the green
• the green
• the green
• the odd centralness of Orlando due to tourism
• the streets leading to Lake Formosa or whatever it is over there
• Ichiban
• Roly Poly
• the malls, yes, oh yes, the malls, and Birkenstock stores
• Mount Dora
• the brightness
• the flowers
• the smell in the air in February
• the orange and grapefruit juice
• the night sounds and smells

and you people.

Er.

Fruit and flowers on my desk
water close at hand

... OK I don't have anything beyond that.

Dave, I still have my smoking donkey. Can you say the same?

Lawd but I have been brain-dead lately. All different sorts of disgruntlements piling up on me that I have to sort out. But I'm going to Florida in March (whoo!).

And my cats are awesome.

Today is Super Tuesday. I'm registered independent right now so can't vote in this here state. Oh whatever. See? I have no opinion. Maybe it's the gin talking. I think I need to avoid alcohol for a while. I seem to go in phases about how it affects me, and right now it's not so great.

But I'm going to Florida in March, and my cats are awesome.

(This is the theme for February.)