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June 10th, 2011 » The Puzzle of My Ear

He prob­ably says that to all the girls, but there is some­thing endear­ingly sexy about that sort of math­em­at­ical scrutiny.

Second indus­trial pier­cing in my left ear. Much less pain­ful than the first: faster and without the blood and recrim­in­a­tions. I had for­got­ten what the push through car­til­age feels like, the sting, crunch, giv­ing way and then soft noth­ing. So many tex­tures in such a small space. I can barely hold them all at once.

Also, endorphins wan­ing much too soon.

December 8th, 2010 » Old Cat is Old

The long bor­ing one, about my cat!

Sasha was never the cat I would have picked.

He was one of two cats owned by the pre­vi­ous owner of our house. I had a com­plic­ated rela­tion­ship with his owner. Suf­fice it to say, I wasn’t pre-disposed to wel­come into my life things that were his. When he left, he left behind two cats — Sasha and Souma.

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