you're old enough to know better

steve lynch writes the best emails, he really does. sorry if you felt you were in the running. hi steve! trying to explain believe it, believe it, believe it all the time/'cause nobody lies with NIX! is an impossiblity, both theoretical and factual. in short: i miss you.

may i also direct you (in the collective) to your right, where you will see both the jackal's excellently designed website and tomato nation, which is a joy. please, off with you now.

the person in the apartment next to mine has been taking a shower for forty-two minutes. won't they have prune skin? yuck. don't ever say that to me again.

here's something scary, if true.

i realize that i've been reading all six volumes of the history of women's suffrage for weeks now (for a total of somewhere around five thousand pages) in an effort to do my job for professor triple threat, and therefore any opinion i have on the subject may be somewhat skewed (and not a surprise), but the concept of a woman's identity? wow. a fight every single step of the way. i haven't really ever thought much about it, you know, just sort of some vague idea of picket signs and the susan b. anthony quarter and then we have the vote and look! there's senator clinton! but really? reading every single (freaking) detail about it actually makes me appreciate it all much, much more. i feel somewhat ashamed, as i wrote an entire thesis once using feminist criticism. oops.

anyhow, i'm just saying. worth thinking about. but really, don't ever read any part of the history of women's suffrage. elizabeth cady stanton was an incredibly gifted writer, but that woman could not edit to save her life.

speaking of elizabeth cady stanton, it's almost two o'clock and i haven't even had coffee yet! there was a late start. and distractions in the form of a perfect email and pictures of a beautiful baby and a nice website and now i have to work till six instead of five. cry, cry cry.