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you don’t know a love supreme
or coltrane for that matter
your ignorance keeps you from seeing
god’s love in the heart of a heathen
(it just couldn’t be!?!)
don’t worry that love will always be there
even if i am in the arms of someone else
who will hold me like you don’t
who will love me like you won’t
who i probably won’t love as much as i love you
but i have to find out
and you do too

back in the game now

bonjour.

I took a little break. I know you missed me. A lot of interesting things have happened since my last post. A couple holidays happened, I had some time off work.  I have adjusted to my new place and I am getting back to a semblance of relative normality.  Some stews have been made and a couple new dishes have been conceived. A fun new yeards party went down and hope for an even more fabulous party has been sparked. A new scent was also acquired: Terre d’Hermes. Last night I even picked up the old guitar, which I haven’t done in years.

My New Year’s resolution is going well, I’ve already helped one lucky person break their lame resolution. People often resolve to not do fun or necessary things, it’s such a foolish tradition. No one ever expects a resolution to help others break their resolutions. I look forward to getting new spectacles sometime next week; a reward for my good progress. I went with the sharp looking Mykita Enzo in a delicious milk chocolate color.

I’ve had two new cheese steaks: from Chink’s Steaks and from Talk of the town. Chink’s was decent but the tiny diner had such a homey atmosphere. This atmosphere must have been caused by the amazing old school milk shakes being consumed in abundance. Talk of the Town however has an amazing sandwich. Rib eye is used, and you have the option to go with whole or chopped meat. I’m all about their Italiano, which features sharp provolone and broccoli rabe. Their rolls were fantastic and the meat was cooked perfectly.

I should be posting more in the future, I’ve been feeling the creative juices thawing out of the winter deep freeze. I felt a glimmer of hope yesterday evening when I caught glimses of the sunset instead of complete darkness as I was leaving work. We’ll see how it all turns out.

Tags: Cheese Steaks

the roommate

I now have two new roommates

Last Friday around 2:30am the old roommate gets home from the bar quite inebriated. I knew this would happen since I sent a couple texts and called her all with no response. I was on edge (with good reason). I got to sleep around 11pm on Thursday, and was startled awake by the phone ringing. The rooommate is headed home from the bar…

She barged into my room and started bugging me about something. I couldn’t make sense of what since her drunken ramblings were circular in the little logic they had. At this point I tried to get her to calm down and tell me what was wrong. This only ended up provoking her to throw her fork and steak knife at me. The steak knife hit my arm and gave me a nice half inch deep nick. I decided it was time to go to the bathroom and clean things up once I realized there was blood streaming down my arm.

Once in the bathroom she came in. She started asking if the wound mattered more, but she didn’t say more than what. After some cleaning she tried to bite where she got me with the steak knife. She missed and ended up simply chomping on my arm for a while, giving me the most spectacular hickie bruise ever. After that she tried to smash my computer monitor, but I thwarted her. Then she called me some names (none of them terribly creative, I excpected more) and ran into the livingroom. I heard some banging from the livingroom and got there in time to watch her dump my 40 inch 1080p LCD over on the tv stand, putting a nice large hole in the screen. She then proceeded to start jumping on the tv once she pushed it onto the floor. At this point I decided upon retreat. Nothing important was left to smash so I thought there was nothing to lose.

I go into the bedroom and lock the door. She tries getting it open a couple times and then walks away. I then hear/feel a couple thumps on the door with something. Then I see something breaking through the door. She tells me to open the door, to which I say I won’t until she chills out. Before I am finished saying this she repeats her request. After going back and forth a couple times the banging stops.

I open the door and there she stands with my Henkels 8 inch chef’s knife.

The door gets shut and locked, and at this point I called 911. Since there is no code to get into the building I had to meet the officers outside. The roommate realized something was going on since I was quiet and she went into the second bedroom. I put on my shoes and made a break for it. She followed after me, barefoot and wearing a shirt covered in my blood. She kept repeating “do you realize you’re going to send me to jail for this?” as she chased me down the steps and outside. The police arrived and asked our stories. In the end they cuffed her and took her away.

I was not prepared for such surreal events. I never thought I’d get attacked, never thought I’d see someone I loved standing in the hall with a razor sharp blade. It was a bad after school special.

After it was all over and I dropped the restraining order I asked her what made her so mad. She said she didn’t know, and that she was just really sad and depressed. I couldn’t believe someone could be so senseless.

Tags: Roommate

A week that will be well remembered

This morning I was walking to my car after I voted and I got to thinking about how epic this past week has been. Today’s election is a historic event in American politics. We will either soon have our first black president or our first female vice president (the first option is preferred of course ).

With equal signifigance the Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series last week. I feel strange walking around the fair city with a Phils cap and an incredulous smile. The spell has been broken by the first team I’ve really followed and gave a shit about.

This makes me see I feel the same way about the election. For the first time I feel that I was voting for a candidate that I wanted in office instead of just voting democrat to avoid the evil republicans. I suppose I should say this is also a personally historic week.

The real historic thing in my mind won’t just be that Barack Obama will be elected president. It will be that the USA has matured a little or maybe come to accept its diversity. Maybe that isn’t the case, maybe people are simply tired of the failed policies of the Bush administration and they just want change. I think it goes deeper than that though.

All I really know right now is that I plan on watching as much CNN as possible tonight so I can see how it all plays out.

Tags: Phillies

Phillies are the 2008 World Series Champs!

Congratulations to the Phillies on winning the 2008 World Series! I would never have throught we would be in the series when I was freezing my ass off at the preseason game I went to back in March. This year was a great year to have a Sunday package of tickets. Here are some pictures of the mob that followed the game, with videos to follow shortly. Click k3v0’s picture above to go to the full gallery.

Tags: Phillies, World Series