torsdag den tjugosjunde december

hi

christmas was good. i spent it with my dad in my sister's lair with her two cats. it was super-cozy and nice! i forgot that this year was not the first not spent at my mother's house. it was the first not spent with my mother. two christmases ago, we all spent christmas here in nyc. my mother came from cali. this christmas is my first not spent with my mother. that is what makes it different. but i talked to her on the phone for the first time in almost a year, on christmas day. it was good. i think i can slowly but surely begin to talk to her more again.

i'm all over my friend's child's photographs. i am seriously gonna get my ass, hell or high water, down to atlanta to meet that precious child. i cannot friggin gawddang WAIT to meet him!!!

my other friend in chicago will soon be my friend ms. bonnarif in nyc because she's moving back to this city in february. i am so glad! i can't even say how glad i am that she'll be back here!!! she has an open door to my lair when she moves back here. i know finding a place here is a bitch.

i got the grades from 4 of my classes back, and they're all A's. i am waiting for two more grades to come back. if i got a 4.0 overall, i would go scream in the streets. i've never before gotten a 4.0 in my life. the highest i ever got was a 3.8.

i will shut up now because i'm boring myself. i wish i could go to the island of attu, though. and svalbard, and nunavut, and jan mayen, and murmansk, and denali, and every other far off place in the sparkly regions of the world that are full of amazing wildlife and people. yeah, if i could spend a few years exploring the arctic, i would not complain. not fucking complain at ALL!!!!!

addendum: jeff corwin & co. said that attu was the westernmost point in the united states. so, maybe that's true, but i just found out that the easternmost point in the united states is another aleutian island: semisopochnoi island, which is so far west of mainland alaska that it is in the EASTERN hemisphere by 14 minutes. this means that when the u.s. was celebrating the year 2000, it should have been said that semisopochnoi was the first land to celebrate the new year....BEFORE new zealand, australia, mainland russia, et al. muthafuckas, someday, i am going to go visit semisopochoi on new year's eve, and i am gonna be the first muthafuckin yankee to celebrate the new year!!! :) yeah, someday i will be an aleutian explorer. i will be the ultimate explorer of the arctic!!! and i will leave no trace! i will peacefully watch the animals and tread lightly on the earth, and by god, i will witness the beauty for myself in person! this here fumbling, duddling human will do that! :) by the way, one of my heroes is nereus the walrus. i love him! if more humans had an inch of his courage, we wouldn't be in the shitty stew we've put the world into! animals rule!