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Sometimes, I like to think I'm funny, and yes, this includes self deprecating humour.

No, I'm not utterly depressed.

A Quarter Century.

In a week, I will be 25. Aside from the usual melodramatic quarter life crisis which begs the question: "what will I do with my life?", I had some other thoughts about myself:

1. I am incredibly unreliable and flakey
2. I still don't know how to prioritize my time properly
3. I think Money is the devil and that by pretending it doesn't exist that it will somehow leave me alone, but I actually know this isn't true and the reality is that I just can't deal with it.
4. I am still afraid of the doctor
5. and the dentist
6. and I still hate brushing my teeth.
7. Little kids really love me, and I have decided it is probably because they sense my reluctance to grow up and take responsibility for myself and my life.
8. I always thought I was pretty good on carrying out the things I said I would do.... However, please refer to number 1&2, and note that I still haven't learned every country in the world and their corresponding capital cities.
9. I like reggae now... so what?
10. I often find myself talking about all the things I used to do with a sort of nostalgia and contempt that should be reserved for people past the age of 80
11. I was always the youngest of all my friends, but am just realising that I may now be one of the oldest.

Cheers to almost being a quarter century old, and still not having the slightest clue!!

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

	S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse
	A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
	Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
	Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
	Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero,
	Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo.

LET us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats	5
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question….	10
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,	15
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,
Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,	20
And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.
And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window panes;	25
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;	30
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
In the room the women come and go	35
Talking of Michelangelo.
And indeed there will be time
To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”
Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair—	40
(They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”)
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin—
(They will say: “But how his arms and legs are thin!”)
Do I dare	45
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,	50
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?
And I have known the eyes already, known them all—	55
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?	60
And how should I presume?
And I have known the arms already, known them all—
Arms that are braceleted and white and bare
(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!)
Is it perfume from a dress	65
That makes me so digress?
Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl.
And should I then presume?
And how should I begin? .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .
Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets	70
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows?…
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully!	75
Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep … tired … or it malingers,
Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?	80
But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet—and here’s no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,	85
And in short, I was afraid.
And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,	90
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,
To say: “I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all”—	95
If one, settling a pillow by her head,
Should say: “That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all.”
And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,	100
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor—
And this, and so much more?—
It is impossible to say just what I mean!
But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:	105
Would it have been worth while
If one, settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
“That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.” .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .	110
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,	115
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—
Almost, at times, the Fool.
I grow old … I grow old …	120
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.	125
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown	130
Till human voices wake us, and we drown. -T.S Eliot

So good, but incredibly sad.

"But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories are permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated--not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness to a source of pain."

Still trying to finish this Rohinton Mistry book.

Pennies from heaven?

It you want the things you love/ You must have showers.

You know what I love... hot sunny days. Went bowl skating with Caroline and had so much fun, and then the next day went to the lake with Henryk and Saskia. Two lovely days followed by more wet wet wet.

Billie Holiday is helping me to stay optimistic about all this rain.

Boo-yah-kah-sha.

So many nice things came in the mail in the past days:
a letter from the FU. I'm officially "Immatrikulated"... nearly everything is set for my Master;
a package from Canada, I received a couple copies of "Space/Time" in the mail from Mel. The Zine and article both look amazing;
and, last but definitely not least... a really nice card from my Pappa. I miss you too, and I am really thankful for the gesture.

I would complain about being too busy and stressed out to do things like blog, but that is boring, so instead... I'll just tell you I'm listening to a lot Corb Lund, and watching crap movies. I won't even tell you what I watched this morning because it is embarassing.

What happened to summer, by the way?

When I hug.. I leave room for an open spirit.

Maybe he says "room for the Holy Spirit"... either way...
I really forgot how funny this video is.