the school of hard equinox

today was my first day off in six days and all the bullshit from the past few weeks is mostly resolved! but instead of feeling giddy, I'm just drained. mellowly drained... it's over. bloody hell! is this the sensation one refers to as "calm"? 

it'll pass. 

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these two were across from me on the bus today. oh, to be earnestly tattered and approximately fourteen again! no wait, being fourteen was fucking horrible. 

one of my favorite buildings in Seattle, the Laurelton. this was a cockeyed angle because it was taken very hastily; I didn't want to be just photographing people's windows like a perv. 

didja know that there are staples embedded in the floor of the Capitol Hill Value Village? I looked it up- all I could find about the space was that it was built in 1916, used primarily as a warehouse, and last renovated in 1985. and it's the Value Village someone I knew once got scabies from, and where someone else once found piss-warm pants neatly hung among the merchandise. the woman in front of me in line politely ignored me while I took this. 

I know that behind the walls of these beautiful houses in these gorgeous neighborhoods, people are dysfunctional and grubby and dealing with self-loathing and bad smells and addictions and bankruptcy and sexual insufficiency and gingivitis and stuff, but fuck this city has an overall patina of disarming eloquence. 

yes! 

there was even an immaculate Thing! 

as contrast, this is my view when I wake up. I call it "facing easst."

the surprise Ballard prelude to the Fremont parade! fuck yeah! everyone came out of the shops to watch. I stood beside an old man with a cane. "I love this city!" I said to him. he smiled and shook his head. 

I'm telling ya, go to Ballard about an hour before the parade's scheduled to start instead of fucking with the Fremont clusterfuck! this is one of the best accidental discoveries I've ever made here! you are welcome. 

16th & Aloha. 

some guy stopped me today and told me I had a "Minyan profile." "it's good!" he said when he saw my dumb American expression. apparently the Minyans were ancient Greeks who settled in the Aegean region (thanx, Wikipedia!). hey, it's better than being compared to Dustin Diamond, which has happened.