Whatever time I take for myself, here in California, comes directly out of the time available for [academic] work, or for regrouping my forces and preparing for the next day. Nevertheless, distracting myself from family life with unrelated activities (such as writing) seems to ground me. I’ll try to write often. Every day. We all know how such intentions work out.
I tried to write chronologically, but there’s just too much. So I’ll post entries as things occur to me. Road trip interspersed in other.
For the record, I think every human before the age of, say, 35 should spend some time caring for an elderly person, or anyone unable to fully care for themselves. It really does provide a different perspective. In the last week, my thoughts have turned to: death and dying; mental degradation with age; why exactly it is that one’s sense of shame persists more strongly than other mental faculties; the importance of a living will (please, someone put me to sleep if I’m ever struck with irreversible illness); a [re]new[ed] appreciation for nurses…
New Orleans notes. This gets long, but is quick reading mostly.
Food court:
zucchini sues squash for infringing on its squashiness
Bay Leaf calls the shots
Judge Rudy Baga presides
Cute flamey actor waiter in La Marquise coffee shop, in a deluge of a rain. If you spell it ante-deluvian, does this mean before the deluge?
Deluge of a thunderstorm last night, through which I could not stay awake. Tried and failed.
Bloody Mère Antoinette yesterday was the spiciest of Bloody Maries. Fried oysters also, and catfish. Never thought I’d like fried oysters this much, it’d seemed like a waste of oysters. Mmm, was I ever wrong.
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Word games are fun. Words provided by Talan. Together-putting is mine.
Nuance
Absolut
Window
License
Intense
Nerd-girl
Sensual
Nuanced, notorious
Unruly
Architect-ure.
Nervous
Crawfish escapes an
Etouf-fate by hiding behind
Armature.
Blues at the Funky Pirate never
Sacrifices quality for
Orgasmic thin
Liquid.
Urgent: meet me on
Toulouse.
Weather inclement.
Increased fear of
Narc
Demonstrates our having
Over-come the fear of
Women.
Leverage of
Improvised jazz over food
Court.
Explicit,
New elixir;
Syrup of the
Elder gods.
Implied
Normal-cy
Terminates the period
Emblematic of
Nap.
Synthetic
Entrance to voodoo shop.
Nachez tour: price
Estimate is high.
Revel in the
Dirge of Jazz Funeral.*
Glorious
Instance:
Rapid squeeze of
Lemon onto an oyster.
Sympathetic to her navigational
Errors, shopkeepers help
Nerd Girl
Stop messing
Up the street names.
Anticipation of moving on, north then west,
Lacks suckage.
* a store.
It seems that the caring for the ill and understanding the importance of a living will/Not wanting to be kept “alive” in a coma go hand in hand…My mom was a nurse in the neuro wing of Mass General, and she’s told me the same many times.
‘Course, she’s also told me to shoot her if she becomes like her mother, but if you knew my grandmother you’d agree :)