December 2010
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New York, December 2010
From New York, December 1990; reconstructed in New York, December 2010
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Today I poured a glass of water into this small jar I drink out of. I cracked the ice cube tray. I thought that it’s so weird how we have ice cube trays because you have to wait for them to ice- sometimes they are only partially frozen and you can’t twist the tray. It’s also weird that twisting something is the official way to go about things.
I wondered if my roommates would...
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On my way home I saw a cat. I was walking downhill near some trees. It was white with some spots, like black and light brown. It stopped and looked at me so I did the same thing.
I imagined it would be cold even thought it didn’t look cold. I asked if it was cold.
It didn’t do anything.
I walked closer and it made a quick movement up the hill.
That encouraged me to pretend to chase...
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Tonight I watched a movie in Kevin’s room. It was on his 17” MacBook Pro. I only have a 15” and I appreciated the difference.
Jon came in the room a few times. He made fun of the movie and I found it a little distracting.
When the movie was over I realized that I was sitting in Jon’s desk chair, and I wondered if he wanted to use it while I was using it.
I put on my coat...
“I’ve always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you’ve been, where you are, and where you’re going - in a sense it’s three tenses in one. It’s also an amazing ideogram of information that is very useful and, perhaps most pertinently, also not at all useful. My father had recently died, and the subtitle of the film was ‘The...