the female gaze

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Such a minute fraction of this life do we live: so much is sleep, tooth-brushing, waiting for mail, for metamorphosis, for those sudden moments of incandescence: unexpected, but once one knows them, one can live life in the light of their past and the hope of their future.



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Friday, August 09, 2002
 
No More Drama in My Life

Went to see Mary J. Blige this morning in Rockefeller Center. The sound quality was pretty awful and all and all, it was a pretty stupid thing to do because I have all my cargo for a week's worth of house-sitting and I still don't know how to get from Rockefeller to SoHo in under 40 mins. Technically I know, but I always screw it up.

Last night brought dumpster diving for free books at Simon and Schuster. who knows when I am going to read the bags and heavy backpack full of books I needed (it's amazing how much the greed urge kicks in when things are free), but as John reminds me, they are good to have and they are free for the simple price of lugging them home. After that, we ate Indian food and drank beer while waiting for the train to come. I ended up giving the boys a lift back to Irvington after sharing the contents of the bag with Auntie B and my giggle-ridden cousins who still go crazy everytime they meet one of my friends who happens to be a boy. They are still fascinated / enamored with tall people.

Today is finally the intern party that took so much time and effort to plan (not really at all, it took 20 mins) so once that is over, I'll be the only 20-something kicking around the office. Next week I want to go over to the New York Public Library - I'll need to go to the performing art library near Lincoln Center as well as the main humanities branch to work on my Fellini research as well as some of the outstanding projects for Ted Perry. I should have more experience with such a great resource. In addition to a few dinner parties, maybe a movie or two, and then lunch with Abby - I think my week might end up being close to perfect.