ten

Things that are better when open:

1. Minds
2. Sandwiches
3. Convenience stores
4. Slather
5. Dialogue
6. Bottles
7. Top buttons, sometimes
8. Handedness
9. Enmity
10. Books

Awkward things during reading a book about Virginia Woolf and her servants

1. The angle my back was on since I threw away my pillow
2. Eating a mango — horrors of the flesh, anyone?
3. Realising that I was really kind of bored by a lot of the details of working class life
4. Having to get up to make my own tea
5. Lost bookmark
6. Wondering whether I, like her, will be highly dependent on others well into adulthood
7. Recalling how racist someone I so much like and admire as an historical figure is (it isn’t grounds for dislike, given historical context, but still jarring)
8. A conversation I had with my father
9. Break required mid interesting section to get my floors cleared for the cleaners
10. My irony  

Reasons I am learning German

1. To be able to read Goethe’s Faust untranslated. Also to try Kant in the original
2. Constructive use of transport-time seeming like a nice idea
3. Incredible compound-words
4. I approve of and appreciate the capitalisation of nouns
5. “Rache”
6. New vocabulary for the maladies of my youth
7. “Trotz”
8. Umlauts! Four extra letters!
9. Me speaking German = possibly kinda hot
10. It seems a difficult language to be flippant in, and may thus improve the tone of my mind

problems with infinite jest

1. it’s very good, so good that it is sad, because i won’t be that good ever.

2. it’s too heavy to take with me

3. i look pretentious reading it in public

4. number of friends is diminishing because i only want to know people who have read infinite jest.

5. i saw another copy in a second hand book store and thought about buying it because i think mine might fall apart over the course of me reading it for so long

6. i keep quoting it to people who don’t know it and i don’t care

7. it has given me unrealistic expectations of the quality of novels,

8. it has also put me off ever writing a novel because i can’t reach those expectations

9. “…”

10. i feel unnecessarily compelled to footnote this list

Things one might bury:

1. Treasure
2. Your dead
3. The past
4. Whatever, provided you have a shovel
5. Compote
6. Srsly you guys, TREASURE
7. The hatchet
8. St. Edmunds
9. (Oh wait, re 5)
10. Time capsule

Xmas cheer

1. Parents call to cancel Xmas. They are going up the coast to escape from my sister who is being a brat.
2. Oldest friend moves out and stops speaking to me.
3. Am unwell and require more medication than usual.
4. Still missing money from lots of people.
5. Other friends also show me how worthless I am.
6. Lost job; employer tells me through clerical staff.
7. I can’t even be bothered to make this reach ten

things recently disappeared from my life

1. tutoring

2. teaching flute

3. old housemates

4. some boys

5. sex

6. the internet at home

7. meat

8. morgan

9. bethany’s unemployed freedom

10. general enthusiasm and liveliness

What Tumblr contains:

1. Whimsy
2. Girly polaroids
3. People who think they’re very fashion
4. High school stories
5. Misc. memes
6. ‘Chat’ posts of IM conversations incomprehensible to those not participating
7. YouTube videos that now need to be watched on the original site, not embedded
8. Naked people
9. Fuck Yeah blogs
10. Me, still…

things to do on a Sunday afternoon

1. Talk about how hot it is.
2. Drink cider.
3. Talk about how all you can talk about is how hot it is.
4. Plan to buy a one-piece swimsuit.
5. Adjudicate.
6. Pour glasses of water over your heads.
7. Go stand in the open fridge section of the supermarket.
8. Get a scooter ride to your next destination, and
   • see a sheep in the back of a car on the ride down King St.
   • have your scooter-driving friend agree to give a total stranger a ride around the block on it.
9. Actually find the house you were going to, and find an unrelated but earlier seen in another venue friend in an alleyway and have him come  over, and supply wine.
10. Talk about stuff scandalizedly and condescendingly (sometimes at the same time)

reminding bethany that things are not bad:

1. kittens

2. cheese

3. dresses

4. repetition of 1-3 for emphasis

5. sushi

6. t rex

7. not sea creatures

8. kitsch things preferably in jewellery form

9. wine

10. san pellegrino