ok, enough about being melodramatic...
...like i have been for the past two weeks. i promise to pull myself together starting right this very minute.
let me start by saying how much i am enjoying my first summer here in brussels. the music festivals around the city are to die for! it's a pity that i have only been to one concert as of today. that was that gig at klinkedenmund (i hope i got it right) last week where the band balkan beatbox played to a wonderful crowd (of course, me being there, why shouldn't it be!). tonight, i am nursing a cold/cough/migraine (and a heavy heart; yeah i had to insert this), but tomorrow i will be at the jazz fest in my own town here in jette. if brussels would be as lively as this all-year round, i wouldn't be missing home that much.
and in between concerts, i am relishing this wonderful book loaned by alexie. it's anne lamott's bird by bird and i say it's a good one (i am not even done reading it yet!). it's a must read for aspiring writers, for writers that need some brushing up, or for people like me who are fans of good writing and who marvel at how authors can write so well you wonder if they sold their souls to the devil in exchange for the most appropriate adverb for the trickiest verb. many times i catch myself trying to memorize some lines from this book for future use. heck, this book may not help you get a friday night lay, but what if it does? you'll never know. i am also helping a friend with the stat analysis for her thesis (yeah, i'm a geek!).
since i'm in a confession mood, let me add one more. the reason why i'm doing all these is to get my mind off some issues i can't deal with right now. sometime soon, i know, i have to face it. but for now, let me leave it. thanks candy and alette for the encouraging words. care for a beer?
dancing to: two albums by arsenal, outsides and oyebo soul
state of mind: not clear
state of heart: don't even try to ask
this is marc's version of the truth, sometime at 12:45 AM
if you can't live with it, he can.
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Hi Sweets. You're very welcome. Glad to see that you're slowly snapping out of "it". Been trying to get ahold of you but we seem to be very good at getting crossed signals these days. :) Time to untangle that!
Take me to where there are peach-flavored beers tonight. I'll be working even after working hours but it should be possible!
Look forward to see you, to hug you, and to laugh with you.
Un beso. x
Bird by Bird is the BEST -- an essential tool for the writer, no doubt!
Got here from from your riding partner, Cecilia -- and now life will never be the same as I wonder what the heck a carrot is called in Latin... :)
inch by inch i'm crawling my way out of the mudhole i myself dug. thanks cands!
hi madley, it's great to know you like bird by bird. funny that i'm reading the book like birds to morsels of bread: a peck a time. thanks for dropping by! do you recommend other books by anne lamotte?
madley, i almost forgot this. carrot is Daucus carota L. promise, i didn't google this :D
http://ginhic.blogspot.com/2005/06/scientific-names.html
Marc is THE ultimate geek when it comes to reciting out scientific names of fruits, vegetables, plants and animals. I can certainly attest to that!
*can't stop listening to "Can't Get You Out of My Mind"....*
~~~yes, I know your tattoo...yeah....nananana....~~~
hi, marc. long time no speak.
i have a suggestion, formed after many years of avoiding, trying to face, avoiding again, dramatizing, trying to face (etc.) Big Pain.
if you don't feel able to face it, which kind of implies doing something about it, but you can't forget it and it is hurting you now, try this.
sit still with it. just look at it and say, okay, i am feeling this (angry, terrified, ashamed, whatever), about this--and leave it at that. just allow yourself to sit still and admit to yourself that this is how you feel. you don't have to do anything about it, just be allowed to have it, accept that you are someone who at this moment feels this way. if you end up feeling like crying, that's okay, but you still don't have to do anything about it. just let yourself be for a little bit.
sweet blessings.
mael
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