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from softbomb :
you and i were supposed to meet up one time. about a year ago. i was the girl from the mercury personal ad. i was possibly going to watch one of your house plants. did you go to spain? are you in portland still? you spoke of rimskys a lot in past diaries. i work there. if you are still around. i could make you a top secret sundae. we could watch it spin in slow motion at a magic table. ---azsa
from jaded20 :
i would really like to read your diary entries, i used to read it all the time, then other things came up but im back now and i remembered your name, but cant find your diary? can u let me find it again??? leave me a message on here if u agree, thanx!
from uberfrau :
i'd like to read your diary...my email is [email protected]
from aidan-cage :
i just joined your hitchhiking ring. PEACE - Tristan
from raven72d :
quantum foam... yes. and I hope you'll update here again.
from tokyo69 :
*knock knock* hello? is anyone home? [email protected]
from angelseyezzz :
I'm sorry to see that your diary is locked, you'll have your reasons though. However I miss it 'cause it is such a good writing!!! Anyways, I hope that everything goes well for you and that you have a nice Thanksgiving day!!! PS: I hope I can get the password if possible, but it doesn't matter O:)
from raven72d :
I hope you'll send me the new url and/or password... just use the name here as the e-name at yahoo dot com.
from crp :
unable to email you thru url attached to your hyperlink (mailto:atribelostbyfindingit@hot-maildotcom)... if you pull my emai address thru this msg, add me to your journal list
from girlsdontcry :
I'm sorry you're locking -- please please do let me know where you are writing, I would miss your words if you stopped. And good luck with everything xx
from girlsdontcry :
I'm sorry you're locking -- please please do let me know where you are writing, I would miss your words if you stopped. And good luck with everything xx
from dumb-john :
hello, sweet brewster. I like your denis johnson/fuckhead fugue. it's 5 am, and i', hurting like i do every morning. tell me something from your bright world, please & thank you. au courage, mon petite.
from softblossoms :
hi! it snowed again on wednesday, but it's all melted now. yess coffee would be lovely! sometime next week would be good. how long are you here?
from agk :
hi lady. i ran buy the old spot today and naturaly thought of how good looking i am. And then, about you, and how you are and if you are safe/warm/happy/curious. let me know. PDX misses BB.
from decemberguy :
If you and your friends ever need a place to crash in Seattle(area), I would be more than happy to offer up my place in Bremerton..
from raven72d :
Spain? Barcelona is always best...
from threeletters :
i don't know the source of "war lies in the origins of the picturesque" but would like to, if you remember. Thanks for the thought-provoking note.
from circusfreak :
it's weird, becky. i did the same thing for a few days there, listening to every single elliott cd i owned, but it started really making me sad, and thinking about those high school days when i lived and breathed everything elliott. had this sort of thing happened three years ago, i might've been lost to ccomplete and utter depression. have you heard any of the new songs? i've sort of just let those stay in the live shows, because i find it ruins them if i hear them first not finished. know what i mean? anyway, it still makes me sad to think about it, but shrug, what are you gonna do? it makes me pissed when i think about mtv doing these stories about how "elliott was the best singer/songwriter of our generation." i mean, he went fairly unknown aside from thr goodwill hunting thing, up until he killed himself. so what the fuck makes him that much better? does it vindicate all of those lyrics about suicide? i'll never understand that posthumous thing. and i'll never understand why suicide makes the artist worth more. anyway, homeless, eh? you'll do fine, you're cut out for that.
from softblossoms :
oh my god! he stabbed the book?! i can't handle any more stabbing.
from raven72d :
A wonderfully fun latest entry...
from girlsdontcry :
Wow, I never even thought of you as a Rebecca. Well, I just think that it's interesting that people name their child after that and then I wonder... do they know? But then maybe I'm just too ... like conservative, to think that everyone just wants to be Good. Well, I hope none of that came out the wrong way, like I think your parents are stupid or something, because clearly they're not. But if you know their opinions on it, I'd be curious to know. Cheers xx
from thatmarygirl :
hey kidd-o, i live on 14th and Yamhill, if you still need a place to crash, lemme know.
from softblossoms :
oh yes definitely. i'll e-mail you and then you can reply with your mailing address. :)
from threeletters :
Thank you for existing.
from irishblueyes :
hi. just wanted to say i found your diary, and i really enjoyed it, you are a wonderful writer. peace. kris
from scarydoll :
your past few entries: i want to feel like that all the time.
from fragiletree :
hi. i just happened to stumble upon your diary and noticed that one of the pictures you took is right next to my house! yes, i live on harrison next to the "main street hotel"! portland really is a magical place and i am just starting to explore around here. sunday night i walked to the oaks amusement park and poked around. then watched people rollerskate for awhile. it would be nice to see a full map of wonderous spots in portland!
from tokyo69 :
get my email? don't hate me.
from wateryone :
The Sep issue of National Geographic's ZipUSA feature is about Portland, it talks about rivers and trees and was like your diary. I loved it.
from thatmarygirl :
oh girl. just keep on keeping on...
from goldchar9 :
Hey, Becky!! How's it going?? Souns like you had alot going on in your life!! Well, send me a message, already!! E-mail me at [email protected] or goldchar9 on Diaryland!! I want to hear from you!! I guess I'm persistent!! Love and peace and Henry Miller books(esp. The Tropic of Cancer)!!
from raven72d :
Good luck on apartments... And the Balthus afternoon sounds delightful.
from tokyo69 :
one day when you think of something you'd like to make for me then you can. i'm going to delete your note because it has your address in it, ok? now i'm going to look for an email address for you because there are things i want to say to you like STOP my heart is tearing even thinking of you thinking of giving up the most. amazing. thing. you. have. ever. found.
from tokyo69 :
hi honey. i have made a mix tape for you, where to send it? these things that are happening with us lately... it's all proof that we aren't finished here yet, there's things to do,.. if only we could implant a little of that feeling into the people that we both want to live so badly, hey? the wonder, the awe, the love, the life! now that i've written this, i believe it, too.
from decemberguy :
Your latest entries kind of make me believe that there is such a thing as love..
from wateryone :
I need a pilgrimage like that.
from wateryone :
I really want to buy a copy of A Pattern Language, but it's so expensive! I just adore that book. My namesake is doing her PhD on it, which I never realised. Its funny how you can not have seen someone for 15 years and then you discover you're into the same things. When I build a house, I'm going to use that book. I love all the images they collected, it must have been so much fun compiling it. If you do go to Spain, will you do the walk Anne Carson did with El Cid?
from wateryone :
mwahah. I was just reading an article about 'the agony of history, the birth-pangs of creation' and it made me think of you and Donna. You know, the earth could be having birth-pangs even as we speak. Love Jenn.
from raven72d :
A lovely romantic entry, girl...
from softblossoms :
oh my god . . . last night my friend sent me a text message asking if i had any i.s.b. records. (she�s making me a mix tape). this is just too fucking much. obviously i have to acquire some because it�s going to change my life! i haven�t heard either of the songs you mentioned, i�ve only heard �you get brighter.� it killed me. luckily she has �wee tam� so i have some access to it until i get my hands on a copy. something you said about borderline p.d. reminded myself of me (unable to control impulses, too much emotion, self-destructive behavior) so i looked it up online and saw that originally it was thought to �border� on schizophrenia but now they think it�s closer to a severe depressive disorder. something to think about anyhow. also i noticed that a symptom is extreme fear of abandonment. !!! ok, so we knew that already. girl be careful. you�re precious, don't forget.
from junkromance :
Hello there and ok then, I will check out the Henry Miller books that you recommended. I also wanted to say thanks (to both you and Donna), for not taking me off of your favorites list when things were getting a little rough I appreciate that. - Every time I pass Reed I think about you.
from angryquail :
About the birth control, I feel the same way. I went off it, my sex drive came back...but I've also lost my boyfriend and my best friend and had other life changes. Who knows.
from softblossoms :
p.s. it�s so funny (and odd) that you just got an i.s.b. record! i heard them for the first time on sunday and immediately started looking for a record of theirs called �wee tam� but i think it�s out of print. which one did you get?
from digital-life :
i flung myself into my big comfy computer chair and instantly began to click. here there, everywhere. i landed on this site. it was not the pictures, the soothing blue color of it, nor the name of your diary. it was one line alone that caught my eye: "i am the blue-lidded daughter of sunset; i am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night sky." beautiful. so i decided to read a few entries as coldplay lightly played in the back of my mind. nice diary, i enjoy what you write and how you write it. bikers ::sigh:: we are a depleting race, don't ever stop :)
from softblossoms :
thank you for the nice note! try not to worry too much about your boy. it seems like everyone i know (including myself) is having weird power issues in their relationships. i�m seeing patterns. (luckily they appear to be cyclical) that�s the worst for me, though, uncertainty in the person i love. or the perception that they are uncertain about me. once i dated a boy that was always leaving. even if he just went to class or to get coffee, i was sure (100% positive) that i�d never see him again. i spent a lot of my time sitting in the bathtub hugging my knees (clothes on, no water). devastating! ask yourself this: which is more important � whether or not he wants to marry you, or whether or not you want to marry him? take care of yrself (hug)
from raven72d :
A palm tree... One from a faded 1940s hotel lobby?
from raven72d :
Parallax is lovely, too. "ex Oriente lux" is "from the East, a light"... Do feel free to stay in touch-- indeed, do feel invited. And klonopin... Ah. Yes.
from wateryone :
Dunedin's no Portland. But we could bike around and make maps. Wouldn't it be fun to make maps of a city you've never been in before? I'm reading this great book about landscape learning at the moment, and think it would be cool for a person new to a city and someone who's lived there all their life to make a map of the same cit(ies). Hope life's good. I'll try and feel like updating my diary... and you, life seems so exciting and beautiful right now.
from raven72d :
You have excellent taste in books, lovely photos, and you write lovely things...
from curiosekwe :
sometimes your entries make my head spin, life more of beauty; they call up waking dreams ive been trapped in--nightmarish in their disreality. i share my own conscienceness.
from tokyo69 :
hello peanut. don't forget to breathe! breathe in the love! i'm so happy for you. xx
from inareverie :
Hey, read a few entrys of your diary, must say its very good. I myself have looked up a few websites which featured the, *spider drug testing* Found it very interesting to say the least. Anyway just thought id leave a note.
from rickybigstar :
It seems my harasser ("rickybigstar" among the 12 other profiles he's started) is harassing anyone who is linked to me in any way. So do yourself a favor and take me off of your favourites list if I'm on it because this guy does not go away and unfortunately he doesn't realize how annoying he is either. I especially apologize to rockyraven. Junk sends his apologies. Everyone should dislocate themselves from me, unless you want my kudees. Quoted from Junkromance's Diary (because obviously he doesn't want any of you to know the truth about him...)
from rickybigstar :
Everytime I read Junk's entry about how he wants to murder me, makes me realize what O.J. SIMPSON must have been thinking right before he killed Ron and Nicole.
from rickybigstar :
VOJIN (a.k.a. "junkromance") wrote in his diary titled "the junkromance" the following words about me: "I want to end him, I want to watch him bleed in pretty red streams of blood that shoot out of him like fireworks hosing out of his shivering body in his screaming last moments of existence. I want to feel my hands rip him apart in perfect cathartic dizzy release and celebrate his end with a little violence, I want to pound him with my fists until he's an unrecognizable bloody crumpled mess unidentifiable to the world. I want to ... I'm sorry, I just ... have a little murder on my mind."
from rickybigstar :
Please look up my profile under the name "rickybigstar" so that you can read the true colors of "junkromance".
from wateryone :
It's hard for me to write at the moment. But just because everyone else's life is so interesting. Your life is an urban fairy tale. I wish you and Donna had time to draw maps.
from wateryone :
I'm glad it was you, it just sounded so magical.
from wateryone :
oh oh! also, I like creeks for the exact same reason as you, because they wind off and you can't see where they've gone, but you know it would make the best map ever, and that exciting things are happening there. The bit of the creek that's just around the corner is always the best bit. I loved that entry. You said it so much better.
from wateryone :
was the first paragraph of your diary entry today you or george macdonald? Either way, it was just perfect. Perfect.
from tcklyrpharsn :
new bike! yay!
from wateryone :
nooo! How can I not know about this book? I love Maurice Sendak, especially The Sign on Rosie's Door and Kenny's Window. All good children's books should have children with good fantasy lives. I will visit my Public Library promptly. Thankyou! I definitely think you should name children things like Mossy and Tangle. I seem to like names ending in -A. Phaedra, Theodora, Flora, Cressida. My kids are going to hate me.
from decemberguy :
This entry about dreams was absolutely beautiful, and got me to thinking about the dreams I still need to fulfill...
from wateryone :
Two things. Mossy and Tangle are the best names ever. If you don't ever have children with those names will you hand over copywrite so I can write a story about them? The other things is that I loved your petitioning in California entry so much, it was so alive, but also so absurd. It was great. I can believe that it would take a special talent to be able to seduce people into signing anything. That entry really exhilerated me. Jenn.
from curiosekwe :
fuck. if i wasnt stuck in everfucking madison id go sublet your apartment in a second. portland is pretty high on my list of cities to explore and potentially live in, it would be awesome to go live there a month or two to get a feel of the city. (much scowling) k
from tokyo69 :
little fella did you go to california??! how's it going??
from chumped :
were you blasting feast of wire or old calexico? thank god for your diary i sometimes think.
from tokyo69 :
becky, i've been reading through your diary from the beginning. i must have makeup smudges all over my face. i just want to ask you a question but you can choose to answer it or not. does donna do it too? because she shot up for you sometimes it says. i just wonder how a friend could do that, you seem to have such intense love for each other. i've done it before as well, for my friend. i decided i would rather do it properly than for them to do it not knowing how. i feel like its condoning it in a way, or not taking it seriously enough. i don't know.
from tokyo69 :
yah, i really am already. collecting songs. music heals more than anything, besides time maybe? i want to show you that i am listening and that i care, music is all i have. keep on keepin on.
from wateryone :
Place-whore is the best neologism ever. We should start a Place-whore diaryring.
from wateryone :
I'm glad you're back in Portland. Nothing can replace Place eh?
from bluephonic :
Congratulations =)
from thatmarygirl :
wow.
from agk :
hello be-bee. yo keep that health shit on the hot tip, heard? and portland welcomes you home with open arms. also. go see the "modern zoo" installation space in St. Johns right away, and write about what you thought was hot. ok, one.
from tokyo69 :
maybe it would help if i tell you that the real name of the e.p. is 'perfect from now on'. i want to make you a mix tape.
from tokyo69 :
i would hurt a fly - have you got that one? its my favourite e.p. of built 2 spill.
from screemingink :
woolf and bright eyes are beautiful. and so are you. xoxo, Miss Takes
from angryquail :
First of all, I know what you mean about leaving a place. It makes everything seem fresh and new. Secondly, I'm glad to hear that you're on a medication that's helping, and you seem to be getting along with the psychiatrist. I'm wishing you the best of luck for this semester. (This semester!)
from thrownout :
everyone tells me my imagination is a little bit to wild. but I find that cool, while others think I act like a five year old. and thanks for adding me to your buddy list.
from naivecurve :
sorry...i managed to take over 100 klonopin at 2mg each (over 200mg!) within an 18 hour period...so i'm out. but i'll try to score some more. thanks for adding me to your journal list...i enjoy reading yours since we have that "thing" in common. xo
from agk :
your most recent entry (july 30, am) was really very special indeed. are you a profesional essayist? is that even a word? at any rate, your prose read like a fluid short film that one hopes secretly will be made into a full length feature without bastardizing it's origination. cheers.
from avalonia :
Btw, good to see you like Nick Cave *Aussie pride* :)
from avalonia :
Welcome to the Archaeology diaryring! Thankyou for joining :))
from tokyo69 :
I'm reading your diary and i have all this work to do. i think my heart just stopped. too much of this is just soo damn familiar. I need to make another to-do list. obviously.
from tokyo69 :
looking at your profile - the bands, the music, the books and movies, its like looking at a big list of everything i love... its strange and fantastic to meet someone with such similar taste. hi. :)
from mydyingbeta :
"a perfect sonnet" is a beautiful song (as though you don't know this already!)
from agk :
cheers to you, from me!
from sewer-rat :
Yeah I can't wait to take ancient greek in college. And Latin... I pretty much know all of Latin but I'd like to study more of it. I'm fluent in Spanish too and I may pursue that further as well or I may just take French. And I would love to learn Sanskrit but I don't know where they offer that!
from thatmarygirl :
oh, you're good.
from bluephonic :
Christ; what an asshole. Anyone who can't tell the difference between "trying to be deep" and giving a (awesome, cool, moving) mind-direct-to-keyboard account of actual experience deserves...uh, to get smarter. I don't know. But you're a great writer with plenty of great things to write about. (And ditto (wateryone) about the maps and trees.)
from wateryone :
'I used to just be sitting somewhere, drinking tea, or taking a walk, and suddenly my brain would swell and I'd think "I'm so in love!" but I never knew what I was in love with.. everything. I feel that now' You capture things that I feel so well too. I can't believe that horrible guestbook entry. The thing I love most about your diary is that you have such a strong sense of self, you know who you are, I feel it in every entry.
from chillidip :
hey, thanks for the message, and for creating the calexico ring.a lot of my friends have had negative guestbook comments recently. i dont know what the authors get out of it. surely if you dont like someone you dont read their diary. is that only obvious to me? ;) take care xx
from curiosekwe :
im jealous ;)
from might :
i often think about self-containment, and talk about my inner monk; the one who has no needs and no desires and who touches and is touched by no one. this is one of the most compelling ideas in my brain, and my early adulthood has been a struggle between the (very seductive) call of that ideal and the needs of my heart to love and be loved. i wish you nothing but the best in your own struggle.
from katiedoyle :
well now i have to read you, because anyone who is honest and has maps in her kitchen can not suck. kd
from katiedoyle :
it's turtles all the way down, you know. this is a random note leaving. :) kd
from wateryone :
I always thought the harp was the coolest instrument. My violin career ended tragically at the age of 7 when we hit a cat on the way to a concert, just before the concert I got a bleeding nose and broke my bow by dragging it along the ground as I walked staring up up at the sky, trying not to bleed everywhere. My mother and I both decided there was no point in continuing. Something like that would never happen to a harpist. The harp is so graceful. I'm glad you like Herodotus. I love it when a course book is so good you read the whole thing. I've ordered Plainwater, it looks so incredible. We have a couple of books of hers in our library, but not that one.
from wateryone :
It's never too much information when it's a page number in a book. I love books and I love knowing exactly which page to turn to. I was so stoked (stoked... do you use that word in America?) when you explained 'life and no escape', because I thought that the rock Mr Thomas showed me when I was eleven must be the only one of its kind. But unless my Form 1 teacher knew Anne Carson and showed her the rock, there must be at least two. I just can't tell you how much I love your diary, not because things suck for you at the moment, but because you're so honest and yearning and because you like trees and have maps in your kitchen. Take care. Jenn.
from austenphan :
you are back home with your parents, and i am sure that things, including getting better, are going to be hard. although i am sure that you have an amazing support system while in minnesota (re: your awesome parents) i want you to know that you can feel free to talk to me if you would ever like to...my email is [email protected]. i know that it seems like more of a gesture than anything, but i really am willing to talk to you.
from decemberguy :
From what I've read, you're a really cool person, and you shouldn't be so hard on myself.Mundanity is the only thing in this life that's depressing, and again, from what I've read:Your life is anything but mundane...
from angryquail :
Isn't the most relieving wonder when you confide in your parents and they can HELP?
from indie-snob :
Hi there! I just reviewed a show I saw with Calexico tonight and thought you may be interested. I have a bunch of other concert and album reviews, too, including Bright Eyes, Cursive and the New Pornographers, who remind me an awful lot of the Shins. Check it out, thanks!
from wateryone :
Have a great time in the desert. It's so true that you never regret being anywhere once you're there. I would pack baudrillard and pretty dresses to go *anywhere*. Aren't they essentials?
from wateryone :
meep. I just read the entry you told me about. I don't know what I would have done if it had been me and I had read that. I'm harsh and too serious everyday, I was harsh and serious and brusque in the staffroom today about linquistics, and I have no problem with linquistics! I'm terrified at the thought of how many people might dislike me. Segue to non-sequiter. My favourite Calvin and Hobbes cartoon shows Calvin squatting on the pavement drawing with chalk. Someone asks him what he's doing and he says he needs to find an ism. He says he chose neo-primitivism. Then he says he wanted to be a Deconstructionist, but his Mom wouldn't let him.
from wateryone :
I love your diary too, you've inspired me to buy a digital camera and revamp my diary with frequent pictures of city-scapes. Everytime I walk to work in the morning I look down the hill and think 'this should be in my diary'. Jenn.
from whovillian :
I'm glad that things are better for you now....btw....you are a gorgeous gal.
from softblossoms :
see the movie "winged migration" as soon as you can. it's in smaller independent theatres now. it will help you. it will help all people who are searching. (who are searching for beauty.)
from wateryone :
Your alumni work sounds great, I'm fascinated by all the alumni and retired staff that use the library here, they all tell such interesting stories and I think to myself that I would like to be just that sort of person when I'm that age. Nice.
from austenphan :
(i tried signing your guestbook...but it didn't work.) thanks for your message. i am really interested in trauma and endings...and even more interested in the way people deal with the inevitability of endings. it is fascinating, to me, to see how people function while being aware that someday things will end for them. while these thoughts can be perfectly depressing, i find comfort in writing about it. although i write from an acute sense of my own pain, i am often able to escape feelings of desperation by writing about it. does that make sense?
from angryquail :
Unfortunately, yes. If either argument works it's time to move on to a new explanation. Hope you enjoy yourself in Portland.
from angryquail :
If low-sensation seekers have limited or simply less brain response to pleasure or risk, wouldn't they need to engage in MORE to get a high? Like the argument that some people who like sweets might be less receptive to the sweet taste, so they need more to taste it.
from bluephonic :
Ack. That wasn't supposed to rhyme.
from bluephonic :
Thanks. =) (coins in the hat; I love stuff like that)
from wateryone :
I know exactly what you mean about all the dazzling alive people. I remember my recluse year, when we'd go to a concert or something and they'd all seem so alive and beautiful. And it would dazzle me. Thanks.
from dumb-john :
fuck, i didnt read your entry right at all. ok, good. you're braver and stronger than i'd first thought. i'm proud of you, moreover i'm... well, not "inspired" by you; i guess, more open to the possibility of possibility. your courage gives me hope, though for what i have no idea. forgive these stupid notes, i'm unaccountably clumsy right now. delete them, please, thank you.,
from dumb-john :
hi, i hope this isn't too forward, but how long have you been doing h? (i'm sorry if you wrote this answer somewhere already, it's late i'm too fucked up right now to read coherently)(it's day 4 of sleeplessness for me as well). i would like for you to kick. not now, especially if you like it so. but i would be grateful if you could hold in mind that you can kick and that you will. i'm amazed i've become one of those "it happened to me and i don't want it to happen to you" people who assault you while smoking a cigarette with their stories of lung cancer; but it happened to me and i don't want it to happen to you, the brain damage was nice and appreciated but what it's done to my blood and liver was unexpected and that damage is what will have killed me when i die soon. i havent told anyone else this, i dont know why i'm telling you except that you're far too gifted and curious to die from something stupid like i have. so don't say no to drugs, i wish i could have better words of wisdom to leave you but whatever
from angryquail :
My heart is rooting for you. I believe that the right thing we do is only what to make of it. I also believe you are doing the right thing. It is good to let your parents help you. It's a joy that you share your experience on the page, think of that too. I do not know you and I have no idea what withdrawal is like but I wanted to leave a note.
from ravynemyst :
Thanks for hosting the Virginia Woolf diaryring :)
from knowles :
you have so much soul, i need to communicate with you. please consider actively persuing exchanging idead with me. thank you for your time. -knowles
from bonkersquipy :
welcome to the kafka diaryring...and thanks for joining...
from kompastella :
Thanks! No, I haven't read Compostella, my nick means "to stumble" in Finnish. :)
from bluephonic :
Thanks. (Truth be told, I haven't read much situationist writing -- mostly just translations of late '60s french grafitti, but it's the greatest stuff ("comrades, people are making love in the poly sci classrooms, not only in the fields" heh.). Plus, all the diaries in the ring are amazing; I'm trying to elevate myself by association. =)
from angryquail :
No prob, Bob. A blather girl is someone who blathers on blather.newdream.net. I saw the heroin page in one of your entries. Although blather does tend to come up in Google, so I suppose you could have found it that way. Papers ahoy!
from angryquail :
You are a blather girl too?
from angryquail :
Happy birthday! Birthday and Sahlins and warm days! Hooray!
from invernal :
Hey there! I was going to leave this for you on your guestbook, but I'd rather not intrude on the fray. But anyway, I see that you run the Portland ring and I have a question, does a potential joiner HAVE to live in Portland? I'm from Arizona and I visited last November and am absolutely in love with it and would like to join it out of my sheer love for it. I'd really appreciate it, thanks.
from wateryone :
P.S. The first house I ever lived in after leaving home had a giant monkey puzzle tree just outside the front door. Sometimes I walk by and see how it's doing.
from wateryone :
Hey Becky, I hadn't read the NACIREMA article, I just went and hunted it down, and worked it out pretty quickly since you had said it was a joke, I don't know if I would have if I hadn't had a tip off though. It was so entertaining. It just goes to show what you can accomplish when you use objective language. Here's to anthropologists with a sense of humor. It's funny, I only took one anth paper at uni and found it pretty blah, but the two diaries I am enjoying reading most at the moment are written by anthropologists. I guess it's its kinship with cultural geography. But what I want to know is, where does one let off and the other start? Anyway, I'm really enjoying your diary at the moment, you're pretty honest, which is refreshing, and I like the way you see the world. Sometimes someone has a way of look at the world that's so beautiful it hurts. I loved your Portland Heaven story, it was darling, that there was this corner that had the best view of Heaven. I want to meet that potentially fictitious old couple. Just beautiful. Take care, Jenn.
from wateryone :
Uggh, I was so incredibly anxious in my third year at university. it was horrible. I use to just stay at home and read 10 hours a day, like you, which was really great, thank god for geography and yevgeny zamyatin and wallace stevens eh? But lots of imcompletes, and just feeling really bad about the whole thing, like I couldn't do it. And talking to professionals about it was like pulling teeth. I hope things get better for you, it's a bad time, no matter how well you're actually doing, the whole atmosphere just freaks you out and it's hard to face. I'm amazed you're making it to your early classes though, I never even got that far. Anyway, I like you and you seem to have a good sense of self, so good luck.
from austenphan :
congratulations on being accepted to the anthrolopology program. it's really refreshing to see someone that is so excited about their potential field of study. (i get excited about mine too--and people find me quite ridiculous)
from austenphan :
hi becky, although we do not know eachother, i would like for you to know that i read your diary. having said this, i have listed one of your entries as one of my 'favorites'. i hope that this is okay. i remember reading about your break up awhile back, while i was in a serious relationship of my own. i had been dating this guy for 3 years, and i suppose that i (wrongly) thought that our relationship would never end. about two months ago, my boyfriend decided to end things through a letter. it was utterly devastating. it is still really hard, but i think that i am doing okay. the entry that i listed as a 'favorite' is one that described your feelings...what went wrong...etc in your relationship. i won't go into more detail about why i am particularly drawn to that entry, but i do want you to know that it is important to me. i hope that you don't mind; but let me know if there is a problem. oh.....and you can delete this from your notes. i didn't know your email address, so i used this because it seems more private than a guestbook.
from decemberguy :
Liked yer most recent entry. The Seattle bus station is very creepy. I've seen some people doing some really crazy stuff in that neighborhood, and hence cops are always hassling people there. The portland bus station was much nicer though..
from laudien :
You're welcome for joining! I really love Virginia Woolf's writing as well. The book you recommended sounds worth a look, I'll check it out sometime. Take care xoxo
from imableeder :
hi...ummm you wrote me a message commenting on my diary and that we have some things in common...and we do,except for your amazing ability to write them into these gorgeous descriptive sentences...you seem to have an appreciation for the small moments of beauty that pass through peoples lives undetected every day, but if you just notice them they are so intense you feel the moment just may swallow you...ahh i am sure you know what i mean and could put it a million times more eloquently ...i am gushing,sorry, but honestly...thanks... "The essence of all beautiful art, all great art,is gratitude."
from dumb-john :
wow. your latest entry (on nietzsche, who's pietzsche) achieved a kind of rapture; i'm transported. its ending lines are amazing -- i'll risk the embarrassment of seeming illiterate and assume that you're not quoting.(isn't it odd that when another says something profound and poetic, one immediately suspects that other of quoting? or is it just me?). those last lines remind me of Robert Hass, of Rilke; I hope you do not mind the comparison.
from dumb-john :
the book on "german conceptions of the body," now -- would that be "Male Fantasies," Vols 1 and 2, by Klaus Theweleit?! Gooey, fun stuff lie ahead for you if it is! If it isn't, well, I wouldn't know then now.
from moreneta :
I like the way you write. (Does that sound pretentious? I suppose you don't really need my 'approval' but whatever.) I'm somewhat less interesting, and the diary is mostly bad ranting...but now unlocked for your immediate gratification!
from bonkersquipy :
welcome to the nabokov diaryring...and thanks for joining...
from chumped :
oh it was for arvo! didn't read all the way, got too excited. sorry to clutter the notes.
from chumped :
hello bicyclelove, i tried to email but i don't know. your life seems like one giant adventure. was tabula rasa an arvo shout-out? i hope you enjoy your first day of school, mine is tomorrow.
from go-go-gonin :
hi, added you as a favorite so just saying hi. also, yay for Marx and yay for the SI. tho that probably makes me sound more, um, militant than i am. bye now.
from lexly :
hey, you knew where that was from!....It's been a while since my anthro class but it's left an impression on me. Clifford Greetz Rock! I use to watched cock fights and didn't think nothing of it...nice photographs btw.
from astralounge :
Ooops! Thank you so much for pointing that out. I fixed it and you can re-add it now if you like. :)
from abadger :
Oh yes, you win. You may collect your supernatural awe at your leisure.

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