bed and man

[starfrosting]

I can't stop obsessing about my bed. See, I arranged to take my friend Clyde's dorm-issued bed off his hands because I wanted a) to sleep on a bed instead of a futon and b) have those ingenious metal headboards that you can tie things to. But now that I have it I don't want it cos it chops up the former elegance and prettiness of my room with its big ugly metal frame, and it looks bad, and I'm anxious about it. I want my futon back!

I think what I need to do is tell said friend that me and his bed just aren't working out.

Also, today my two girl housemates told me that they were trying to decide who the manliest person in the house is. "Well, Matt knows how to make and fix things," I said, "but then he does things like cuts off a finger or knocks out a tooth in the process." They were quick to say that no, Matt's not the manliest. "Obviously not Seth," said one of them. "It's you, Oli! You're the manliest one in the house."

Well, this house is shit out of luck if it ever needs any manliness. If my faygeleh ass is supposed to be the most manly, we're all in trouble.

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[fetteredwolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, beds are tricky that way. Some friends got a new bed frame at Ikea, and asked us if we wanted their old one. We liked it, with its built in drawers underneath for storage and reading lamps built into the headboard, but then I wanted to keep our old classic one, so its still in the attic in pieces.

[activist85.livejournal.com]

Oli of the faygeleh ass,

This entry made me grin. When/how can we arrange seeing each other? I long to have silences with you, as well as conversations. But silences in particular really require seeing you in person, even in the same room. So how can this work out, I wonder? Will you be up at Wes at all? Or in Northampton areas? Or should I figure out a way to you (my main problem being my weekend work schedule)? Do tell.

Paige

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

i have no plans of going up to Wesleyan but if, say, a certain butch were to invite me to visit I have a car here and no class on Fridays. Do you work on Fridays? If not, I could conceivably drive up one Thursday night, stay til Friday night or Saturday morn, and then drive back.

Speaking of basking in silence, did that mix I made ever find its way to you?

[activist85.livejournal.com]

I did indeed get your mix, and am quite fond of it (particularly the Lucinda Williams, Patty Griffin, and Amy Ray tracks. And you'll have another one from me soon, I've just been a bit overwhelmed with Fulbright stuff (why am I wasting my time when I won't get it???) and various Wesleyan bureaucratic bullshit.

As for seeing one another, my work schedule is quite the tricky thing indeed. See, I'm living at Wes approximately Sun night to Thurs midday (most of the time), and back in eastern MA for the rest to work Thurs and Fri overnights (11pm-9am) and Sun during the day (10am-8pm). And for obvious reasons I'm sleeping away the Fri/Sat mornings when I don't have anything else scheduled since I'm not allowed to sleep on overnight shifts. Given that, will you be visiting Bea in NoHo anytime (because that's a little closer to in between for Vassar/Boston than either end, and you might have incentive for that)? Or will you be at Transcending Boundaries the last weekend of October in Worcester, MA? Because this butch would most definitely invite you to visit (and really, two overnights with you sound quite appealing, but I'm happy to take whatever I can get...), but is too gentlemanly to want to inconvenience you and too working class to be able to miss work too much. So let me know what your availability is, okay?

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

Hm hm hm, so you are at work/sleeping it off from Thursday to Friday and then Sunday, and at Wesleyan the rest of the time doing schoolwork...So tell me, should I touch base with Bea about combining a visit w/you two in Northampton, or would it be feasible/easier to do it another way? (My bff Ren lives in Cambridge, for example, so you two could be combined into a Po'town-to-Boston schlep. I'm just concerned that may not work cos yr work schedule though.)

My availability is...last weekend in October, maybe 1st week of November...basically my weekends need to alternate between "going to the city to see my boyfriend and get my shot" with "staying at school and getting shit done," so it's flexible in that way that "staying at school to get shit done" is negotiable.

See, there *is something to be said for you just telling me what to do...

(oh and ps, aren't you sort of cut out for a Fulbright? please.)

[activist85.livejournal.com]

Minus this week, in which I'm crazy with Fulbright stuff all the time, I'm actually ridiculously not overwhelmed by schoolwork when at Wes, and if my thesis is approved (to be official this week), I still won't be too stressed out (it will be a continuation of my NGLTF paper from last fall, so I've already got 75 pages in decent shape for it, much better than most seniors have in Dec/at halfway). But if you're planning a weekend visit to Ren, that would certainly be easiest for me, and I will absolutely make time for you, no problem. Sleep is always had one way or another, and if a little less is had for good reasons or good people, that is just fine with me.

Specifically those weekends, Fri Nov 3rd I could certainly make time between my shifts, but that Sat I'll be at a training 10am-6pm, so that Sat night would be less fun because I'll desperately be needing sleep by then. And the last weekend of October is the Transcending Boundaries conference in Worcester, MA, which I do not yet know if I'll be attending on Sat or not, but Fri would certainly work and Sat could be made to if you were around. So let me know whatever you're thinking, and I'll put you in my calendar ASAP as a priority.

(oh and ps, so totally not. as if, no matter how hard I wish.)

[khelm1099.livejournal.com]

Sort of (not so much) related: over the summer, I was flipping through pictures of last semester, and Joseph, seeming to forget who you were, said, "Who's that guy ?" ...from the mouth of babes.

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

I'm glad Joseph knows the craic.

You've popped into my mind a lot lately, darling- how've you been?

[khelm1099.livejournal.com]

Busy. Got a job as a barista at the coffee shop in my building (honey ginger milkshakes are amazing), writing for the school newspaper, taking six classes (one on contemporary political theory-holla!), etc. Going into the city Friday, as New Jersey transit is free for students this week, and staying over Ms. McSoley's apt. How have you been? You should come to New York, Rutgers, or Cathy and I should come to you, ya frisky little badger!

P.S. There's someone who looks like you in my Arts of Western Africa class. I want to go over to him and say, "If you bounce a quarter off of it, it'll come back 50 cents!" I have a feeling he wouldn't laugh.

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna be in the city Friday as well. Give me a ring?

[khelm1099.livejournal.com]

Sure. I'm not sure how Friday is going to work out, maybe Yaffa or a drink? If not, maybe breakfast/brunch in the village on Saturday?

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

Mmm, Friday night is erev Rosh Hashanah so I probably can't do it. Brunch sounds sort of irresistible though. Especially since Taylor lives in Harlem and there's no way in hell to make it down to the east village in time for breakfast.

[taxishoes.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yyyeah, my housemates decided I was the "most butch" person in the house, which is pretty funny.

But I guess, through no fault of my own, possibly true.

I hope you figure out your bed situation.

I miss you.

[cislocative.livejournal.com]

good to see you last night! forgot to ask- did you ever find that binder that I sent via Taylor?

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

The feeling's mutual man- and yes, I finally asked him as to its wheareabouts and he finally retrieved it from the bottom of his knapsack where it'd been living since the day you gave it to him. Thank you...