Afternoon...
Oct. 8th, 2004 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackshoegazerI've taken a page from Kiwikat, and have gone to a simple black and white picture, which I love now. I photoshopped the background and inserted a painting of s stellated dodecahedron which a friend painted for me. Otherwise it would have been my computer and a bookshelf, and that was just too damned busy, detracting attention from my handsome mug. This is also the first public appearance of my beard, which is a new thing for me. After many trials and triblations in the relationship department, I've come to the decision that I don't care anymore. If a relationship comes barreling down the highway in my direction, so be it, but I am not trying or looking anymore. This decision has freed me from the urge to look as good as I can, i.e. shaving daily and dressing 'nice'. With these things out of the way, I've decided to grow a beard, which I've never done before, except for a stint of thick stubble for Halloween last year. I like the beard so far, even though I've always had reservations about beards due to several factors, such as: 1) Beards were so 1980's; 2) My father and his Grizzly Adams beard. I've never idolized the man, and have always been in fear of looking like him in my later years, but alas, as I've aged, I look nothing like him (which raises some poignant questions in and of itself.) So on goes the beard experiment!
Tomorrow morning I'm going to the Wisconsin Book Festival with Anna, as I mentioned before. We talked on the phone yesterday and finalized our plans. I'm constantly amazed at how well she and I get along and how we gel, as they say. I've totally been enamoured with her since I first saw her on my last day of training at work. Well, more accurately, I was curious on that day, and once I got to talk to her, several months later, I became enamoured. It really is a shame she has a boyfriend though. Three or four years they've been together. She even has his name tattooed on her back in chinese. She's extremely intelligent, a writer, and devastatingly cute. I have dowsed my delusions about anything happening between us, or at least I tell myself I have. It would be weird to be 'the other guy' and she is a very loyal personality anyway. I'm sure we'll have a great time tomorrow though. The Festival should be awesome. We're going to a few presentations/events, sort of writer's workshop things. I might try to sneak over to the Jack Kerouac event and see the original manuscript for "On the Road". It's a 120 foot single roll of paper, single spaced and stained with coffee and Kerouac's fingerprints. There's also a book sale at the Memorial Library - $2.00 a bag, bring your own bag! That's just insane! I woner how big of a bag they'll consider 'fair'. Hmmm.. either way, my book collection is about to substantially increase. Yay! Anyway, wish me luck and God help my ego while I am surrounded by writers who can really write.
Tomorrow morning I'm going to the Wisconsin Book Festival with Anna, as I mentioned before. We talked on the phone yesterday and finalized our plans. I'm constantly amazed at how well she and I get along and how we gel, as they say. I've totally been enamoured with her since I first saw her on my last day of training at work. Well, more accurately, I was curious on that day, and once I got to talk to her, several months later, I became enamoured. It really is a shame she has a boyfriend though. Three or four years they've been together. She even has his name tattooed on her back in chinese. She's extremely intelligent, a writer, and devastatingly cute. I have dowsed my delusions about anything happening between us, or at least I tell myself I have. It would be weird to be 'the other guy' and she is a very loyal personality anyway. I'm sure we'll have a great time tomorrow though. The Festival should be awesome. We're going to a few presentations/events, sort of writer's workshop things. I might try to sneak over to the Jack Kerouac event and see the original manuscript for "On the Road". It's a 120 foot single roll of paper, single spaced and stained with coffee and Kerouac's fingerprints. There's also a book sale at the Memorial Library - $2.00 a bag, bring your own bag! That's just insane! I woner how big of a bag they'll consider 'fair'. Hmmm.. either way, my book collection is about to substantially increase. Yay! Anyway, wish me luck and God help my ego while I am surrounded by writers who can really write.
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Date: 2004-10-08 11:07 pm (UTC)booksales! All I can say to that is YAY and bring a big bag, dammit, and why isn't it in OHIO?
ThanX
Date: 2004-10-08 11:15 pm (UTC)And thanks for the beard compliment! My ego feels gratified!
Re: ThanX
Date: 2004-10-09 12:01 am (UTC)Ego gratification, it's what's for dinner.
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Date: 2004-10-09 06:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-10 02:06 am (UTC)i missed the book sale! tragedy!
*gnashing of teeth and wearing of sack cloth and ashes*
Beard?
Date: 2004-10-10 04:27 am (UTC)Re: Beard?
Date: 2004-10-10 09:31 am (UTC)have a nice night off... i have to leave for the salt mines now...
Re: Beard?
Date: 2004-10-10 03:08 pm (UTC)Re: Beard?
Date: 2004-10-10 07:31 pm (UTC)Re: Beard?
Date: 2004-10-10 07:33 pm (UTC)Re: Beard?
Date: 2004-10-10 07:39 pm (UTC)Re: Beard?
Date: 2004-10-10 07:46 pm (UTC)Re: Beard?
Date: 2004-10-10 07:50 pm (UTC)Re: Beard?
Date: 2004-10-10 07:54 pm (UTC)Re: Beard?
Date: 2004-10-10 08:01 pm (UTC)Re: Beard?
Date: 2004-10-10 08:06 pm (UTC)Re: Beard?
Date: 2004-10-10 08:07 pm (UTC)well if you don't believe in the afterlife that is
Re: Beard?
Date: 2004-10-10 08:08 pm (UTC)Re: Beard?
Date: 2004-10-10 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-23 03:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-23 03:31 pm (UTC)(P.S. Do you use any chat/messaging programs?)