17: some lies
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yamamanamain a snowy season - in which a barred owl kicks Tiffany, we release some animals and learn about animals that modify their ecosystem, and Lucy and Signe discuss which type of jawless fish would make a better pet.
cupid, draw back your bow - in which I discuss the relative merits of the common cold vs the norovirus, snow falls on Priya, and Jack fails to tell the difference between a male and female merganser.
all farewells are sudden - in which Leah leaves my life and I am despondent.
sea change, with monsters - in which I march for Ashley, Holly, and Leah.
teeth dreams - in which the animals don't look great.
otherworldly resonances - in which I hypothesize about the existences of alternate worlds, hear rumors on the death of Assad and fake news on a shooter really being Moroccan and meet someone who's tumblr I read in person and her rats.
daydreaming - in which I post scans of a sketchbook and discuss love, growing up, time, cats, music then vs music now, and plans for the assassination of Marine le Pen.
to see the invisible man - in which I post scans of a sketchbook and think the two halves of winter were switched, Ashley sleeps too much and I sleep too little.
quiet of the night - in which Ashley is scatterbrained and recommends bands that I fail to listen to and I have Malaysian food and see Massenet's Cendrillon and an Andean guitarist.
an arrow through time - in which I procure some books, Ashley recommends various bands and anime and we discuss the cuisine of southeast Asia and far-right movements in Europe and clothing with elephant motifs, various driveways turn into skating rinks, One-Eye fails to get vertical lift and Clamp in Wonderland fails to live up to my lofty expectations.
one of her paths - in which Tiffany tells me that it was in fact One-Eye who got released, while the salamander goes to a better place and we get a goose who is suffering from organophosphate poisoning.
everything that rises must converge - in which I eat Thai food, take the train, procure Thai food, visit the ICA, step in a snowbank, take a wobbly train, and take a train that reversed itself, all on an unseasonably warm February day.
return of a comrade - in which I encounter Chantel at the desk of a small art gallery and I update her on my life because I know Tara would appreciate it.
as time stood vexingly still - in which I discuss the differences between abyssopelagic black and hadeopelagic black and the lifespan of hedgehogs.
the sun is but a morning star - in which Facebook fails to stymie my friendship with Emma and I type "A s" before realizing my mistake, snow melts despite being far below freezing, and I discuss hypothetical pre-Venera Venuses.
days of atonement - in which Gabriella and I hear Durufle's requiem and a motet by Palestrina and poke around Harvard Books without Ashley.
i've been here - in which I go bowling and the bad animation makes Taylor feel confused and infuriated.
hewn from nature - in which I tell a story about bowling shoes and my policy on ninja editing, wish Ashley a happy birthday, and change the water in a turtle pool.
voices from corona borealis - in which I meet a woman with blue hair and a man who speaks Mayan, discover the Sargent murals and admire the Grail murals and the Muses.
a little bird told me - in which I stop counting down to the vernal equinox even though it remained cold and I listen to Tori Amos non-stop and it gets harder and harder to tell the difference between the far right and mainstream conservatives.
mixed skies - in which someone gives a turkey a true name, killing him, a butterfly finds itself in enrichment, and I reach the point in Steins;Gate in which it stops being funny.
deliquescence - in which Emily, TJ, and I clean the fridge at the wildlife center, Margo eats Jolly Rancher popsicles, Emily discusses Washington D.C, and Ashley is more withdrawn than usual and I mistakenly blame spring sadness.
sunrise in aries - in which a turkey's blood fails to cooperate with the lead testing kit, and Jen makes lunch in a pot and eats it before rounds even began.
humanity's tale - in which I remain optimistic, both about humanity and about not getting sick from Jack.
the air stirs - in which Photoshop becomes subscription based.
traces of the beast - in which I explain dog color receptors to a kid, we get some fledgeling birds.
refugees and pilgrims - in which Emma holds an ambient concert, I meet many people named Hannah, a boy from Somalia is eager to be drawn.
among strangers - in which there is a protest in Boston and my sign idea doesn't make sense there, a requiem is performed, and I make Amber feel better with a drawing.
where words fail, music speaks - in which Box of Birds performs on the common and I see an obscure Mozart opera.
business as usual - in which TJ and I speculate on how seriously the Flat Earth Society takes themselves and Margo talks about Moana.
in trouble again - in which I pick a title that relates to Trouble in Tirana not knowing that I would see Twelfth Night again by the end of the year, and an octet performs songs of Shakespeare.
the rich drown in wine - in which Gabriella and I go to an opera and I eat a dish of rapi greens, garlic, pignoli nuts, sundried tomatoes, and currants in capellini, and she gets a salad and risotto.
dirty work - in which the wildlife center has a baby weasel and I get annoyed with Facebook's aggressive user retention methods and learn that squirting oranges and pineapples on fish negates the horrible odors.
transcendence - in which I compare Stalinist Russia and Conservative-Libertarian America's attitude towards the arts, meet someone who reminds me of Ashley and people who were dressed for a 90s-themed bar crawl.
Archive Style - in which I arrive late to a Mayfair on the nicest possible day that week but early enough to catch Noble Dust's full set, buy Celestis for Ashley and begin my troubles, wish I had some Fruit Brute cereal so I can increase the temperature by 17 degrees, people recreate art in chalk, the Russians and Ecuadorians fail to suborn French elections.
disillusioned by the actual - in which I don't bother to learn names, Margo forgets that she can use her boyfriend as a human shield during a potential Purge or zombie apocalypse and blows bubbles.
a world bathed in sunlight - in which I give Laci Green a few weeks before dismissing her as a lost cause and Margo dyes her hair.
elsewhere/here - in which I identify with a hedgehog puppet, someone paints The Scream with Kevin McCallister, the Harvard Art Museum reconstructs a Philosophy Chamber, I obtain some books and don't let Ashley have them and then deface something about kek with stuff about zerg and tell Stephanie about people who wear winter clothing when it's warm and shorts when the windchill drops below subzero.
where soft rains fell - in which Ashley heads off to Europe but not before Danielle tells her a story about otters and I attempt to explain the Aouzou Strip and Toyota War to her, and mistakenly attribute her even worse withdrawnness to the stress of traveling by air and not tesseract or arbiter recall and the stress of car problems.
an idyll for the misbegotten - in which it is unseasonably cold, a libertarian fascist stabs three people on a train in Portland, I find an Arab restaurant which comes at no surprise, and see a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in which Mustardseed is an old-fashioned box of mustard with a face and mustache and Dana is in the audience although I do not actually realize it.
communing with the rain - in which I have a cuteness overload from seeing a weasel, Jacob doesn't bother learning names when the Aggies show up.
monster beach - in which a sculpture race is held, artists draw monsters in a river, Sophie performs the overworld music from the Legend of Zelda on an accordion, google search robots accuse Kevin Harris of being involved with Columbine, I encounter Dana from last year.
lost hope - in which I mistake Jill for Ananya and mistake Ananya for a Hungarian or Hebrew name, a crazy swan lady wants to euthanize all the great blue herons even though they were here first, I listen to Tori Amos and become disillusioned with Laci Green and despondent over Ashley.
dispatches from the revolution - in which a Pride parade, a dance party, and a Shakespeare-themed concert are held on the same day, I meet Jessica who says she sees me a lot, and I suggest sending a Pepe rally to somewhere like Pepperell that isn't Pepperell, like perhaps Mount Ashley or Kyrgyzstan.
she's not there - in which orphaned gray foxes and lead-poisoned waterfowl show up, Greg identifies a night heron, and a baby owl is given to another nest.
mysteries abound - in which I learn that respected newspapers were openly racist, sexist, and classist and wonder just how much things have changed, attempt the World War II scenario as the Spanish Republic, eat a garlic burger while listening to some Argentine musicians play, and get flipped off.
clean is better - in which I draw pictures of horseshoe crabs, someone brings a decapitated nestling and we feed Falco, Brian's dad fails to cook lobster properly, a raccoon dunks his banana in poop before eating it.
my life in paper - in which I remember that I had a bunch of sketchbook pages already photographed but they failed to upload properly.
proud music of the storm - in which I take a detour to the MFA because there's an art of sound installation at a nearby Orange Line station, wonder what the last country to allow same-sex marriage will be, meet a woman with a heron tattoo who thought I was saying hi to her and her corgi, see an opera, and run around trying to find dinner.
slow red - in which Taylor has no idea who Captain Planet is, the night heron lives another day, and I learn about red blood cells.
a taste of the divine - in which a whirlpool spins clockwise and I get lost on the way to Chili Duck and finally get to hear Aliya Cycon play.
the tailor's cut - in which the MIT museum is virtually unchanged since my last visit, the smell of an Indian market makes me happy and hungry, I buy a book with the caveat that if I have it with a different title, I'll attempt to pass it on to Ashley.
atomic fireball (blasted) - in which the Davis Museum is completely transformed since my last visit.
fireworks and memories - in which I try to watch an impromptu fireworks show behind trees and post thoughts on my listening habits for the year.
summer thoughts - in which Jack posts a picture of a goose instead of a picture of a night heron.
God Prefers Gothic - in which it pours rain and I use a thick pen to draw a man who called Snowpiercer "Arctic Train," a woman with tattoos of Boba Fett, and a Michael Jackson impersonator, see some Latin jazz in the Boston Public Library, and Ashley goes by Ashley Fairchild in real life but Ashley Evans-Fairchild online.
in the dark - in which the lights go out across Harvard's campus and I discover a note by Ashley and meet a woman who knows someone who interns at the wildlife center, a woman who gets songs in Swahili stuck in her head, a woman with beautiful tattoos, and a dog named Lana.
for all the dreamers - in which Cassandra writes a poem for me and I explain Irish pronunciation and the Voyage of the Basset, I participate in a collaborative comic about a snake, a bear, and a pancake, learn words in Nahuatl and fail to learn what exactly Hassaleh means, meet people with beautiful tattoos, and hear amazing music with a "voice" theme.
music for a summer evening - in which Gabriella brings a friend along for a concert of aestival music.
radio RX-1 - in which I get sidetracked by art depicting the Trojan War on my way to get a shawarma.
ouroboros festival - in which it is Figment and I meet a troupe of dancers and my lab partner from physics and a woman who gave away free cupcakes.
slipped into sleep - in which Jack uses a game boy camera to take a picture of the night heron.
what rough beast slouches - in which I compare Nuremberg to Lille in an unfavorable way although there are places in France that are worse than Lille and most of them are where Occitan was spoken but no longer, Gabriella takes the extra copy of Celestis that has been burdening me, and I meet a pug named Darth Vader and a woman from Saudi Arabia with impeccable tastes in music.
a midsummer's night - in which a man juggles with swords and the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company uses Dead Can Dance as the soundtrack to Romeo and Juliet.
they also feed - in which an egg plops out of the back end of a chick.
the replica of the soul - in which Ashley and I have a falling out and I can't concentrate on anything because of that and she might have just been stressed out because all her stuff ended up in Ashgabat or South Georgia but probably not, a man from New Delhi describes public transit there.
inside a hollow heart - in which Penelope's eulogy aches, Shelby sees the creepiest thing she's ever seen, a heron dies so there will be no more baby deliveries, and I bring up rails, a possible premonition of the future.
a calling from beyond time - in which I find sumac, a dog named Han shows up, Gabriella tells me a story about her cat getting skunked, Christopher Wilkins says that Boston has become even more diverse since he started his career as conductor, and a group performs a lushly orchestrated pop song about their self-identity.
your shadow on a cloud - in which a man plays violin in the Gardner Museum's courtyard and art installations produce sounds.
mystery by moonlight - in which I meet people with beautiful tattoos and beautifully colored hair and beautiful jewelry, see an art installation of found objects, run into Box of Birds again, Julia Mark sings whimsical songs about static electricity, crescent moons, people on TV, and the end of the world, Lainie Marsh sings about fracking,
the power and the passion - in which an alt-righter runs down a woman with his car, I meet a woman dressed in Ivalician Gothic style and people dressed as comic book characters and many frenchies and shih-tzus, and hear songs about women with eyes the color of almonds and hammers and the Vietnam War and superheroes and rain in Noelle's heart and social justice and try Haitian food.
will to fight - in which I fail to spell Darragh's name, resolve to finally finish watching Steins;Gate, meet several shih-tzus and people from all over the world and a guy named Drew who likes to make art and a woman named Victoria who is half-blonde half-brunette.
not quite alone in the dream quarter - in which Taylor finds a snail and I learn that wallabies are friendlier than kangaroos and a frog-right rally is planned.
Jupiter and Beyond The Infinite - in which the Longwood Symphony Orchestra doesn't make lengthy writeups on the works of music they play so I have to do that for them and Danielle schleps off to New York and does not eat steamed hams because she's in Syracuse, not Albany.
a temporary embarrassment in spacetime - in which I post a wildlife center entry because the one for the ICA overwhelmed me.
sun splashed - in which a woman with snake and rose and bird-woman tattoos calls my artwork dope and check out art by a guy who emigrated from Jamaica and just recently became a citizen, wonder if there's any way to tell if images won't upload to imgur and come to the conclusion that there isn't a blacklist because I can still gank images from Facebook.
time cures nothing - in which I state something I already knew, overhear some conversations.
the melodics of madness - in which Hamlet's father is murdered most foully and Cassie speculates on Ashley.
tyrannicide - in which Julius Caesar is murdered and I ride the train from Alewife to Braintree.
Stirring Them Up as the Keeper of a Menagerie His Wild Beasts - in which the wildlife center gets a new goat
everywhere and no place - in which Ashley seems for a moment friendlier but it is but an illusion, a string ensemble plays in place of the Landmarks Orchestra, and I meet an art teacher.
by moonlight - in which Emma dumps paint on canvases and then paints around the splatters, gives a question and answer session, and speculates on Ashley.
the fruits of friendship - in which I tell Sydney Hardin about Vagrant Story because she has the most Vagrant Story name ever, hear an acoustic version of Atlas Lab and realize I have their songs memorized, hear Molly Pinto Madigan and Mint Green.
hieratic reflections - in which the chimney swifts were released and we share culinary disasters.
of revenge and regret - in which a Mad Genius laments the lack of a drive for revenge but Holly and I are fine with this.
a view from a height - in which Jose brings rains but not fierce winds, I spend an hour looking at Japanese woodblock prints, Ariel is proud that I asked about The Tempest and not The Little Mermaid.
seeing stars - in which Greg and Katrina rescue a dog, Jessica gets a dog, and Zack brings Ziggy around.
meeting you - in which it rains on jazz fest and I am strangely ok with this and a glob of rain water falls on my sketchbook, and Josh is pleased with his mighty jawline.
not to mention jack - in which they Len-proof the enclosure.
stories for children - in which Gabriella and I see an opera in which a child throws a tantrum and is tormented by anthropomorphic household objects and animals and a staged cantata, I find a bag of Indian snack mix they had at Trader Joes back when I was in middle school, I meet a woman with a tattoo of the Bride of Frankenstein, whose name means mandarin orange in Turkish.
no place any more - in which I visibly and obviously stress out Ashley and realize that things will never be the same between us.
stochastic fancy - in which Gabriella and I see Tosca.
dirty reality - in which it rains and the seagull's dinner ferments.
because change was the ocean and we lived by her mercy - in which Neogaf goes through changes and not good changes but on the other hand, the Escapist might shut down and the Amazon Forums are gone, and I realize that 'no place any more' makes more sense for this post.
loathing and fear - in which Ashley is uncomfortable in my presence and I decide instead to wait for her to approach me but doubt that she ever will, Shorty the dog takes on the role of receptionist at the wildlife center, and I attempt to make a Bob Belcher pumpkin.
magic night - in which I meet Lindsay and we guard the spider jack-o-lantern and discuss Final Fantasy and the Legend of Zelda and Mario and Until Dawn until she goes to the bathroom and gets lost, Maggie is way too harsh on Ashley, at least three people named Emily show up, and a guy dressed as a rave walks through the pumpkin trail.
in judgment of ghosts - in which I mistake Lisa Simpson for an albino Statue of Liberty.
the thoughts of the rain - in which I see a jazz oratorio performed, people on the train are dressed in costumes, and I try Persian food.
source decay - in which the pumpkins grow fungus, someone in a supermarket mistakes seagulls for bald eagles, and the shop sells dog christmas ornaments.
reusable universes - in which a Diwali celebration takes place at the Worcester Art Museum.
their undeniable empty obsession of superiority - in which an ape spits on a man, I discuss what music I plan on listening to in December, and a peregrine falcon dies before its picture ends up on the wildlife center's facebook page.
nothing will change - in which Jack learns about delayed posting on Facebook, there is a fragile peace with Ashley, Hitler proves that he's not more rational than Pol Pot by targeting people who speak Esperanto and people named Sara, and Emily contemplates getting rid of the dank.
feeling blood building up - in which I deface some swastika graffiti with Yugoslav Partisans slogans and far-left symbolism, find a Sonic fanfic in which a hedgehog is described as 16 years old, try to upload some pictures to imgur.
victimless crimes - in which I play Apples and Apples with my cousins and am entirely unsurprised to find out that Roph from Gamingforce is an anime right douchebag.
keeping traumain which Sapir details her experiences with sexist tech dudebros, a razorbill is brought to the wildlife center, and Robert Mugabe resigns as El Presidente of Zimbabwe.
across the border - in which a performance of Twelfth Night is held and I sum it up, but fail to find weather stats for Leskoviku or even Frashër, and rank the zodiac signs in Rand McNally.
for a place in the sky - in which a deer noshes on a pumpkin while I walk my dog, spend five minutes looking for my camera, and go back to take a picture of him, Saleh is assassinated, Emily has her first non-sad lunch, laments the Trump presidency and imitates razorbills.
taking in the trash - in which I learn that there are diets listed for deer and I'm not entirely sure why, net neutrality is dismantled, Emily sings Christmas songs and imitates razorbills.
an empty vessel - in which the wildlife center has a lot of geese and hawks.
things that are beautiful and transient - in which ice storms befall central Massachusetts, I plan on calling every cat I meet Ashley when it's not their name, Ashley shows more emotion than I've ever seen from her and a day later, I am happy to see her for the first time since April, and Sam gloats about the death of the Incels subreddit.
memories of happier days - in which I post drawings despite Robert Mugabe being alive and Ashley not being any more pleasant to be around than she usually is.
the alcubiere break - in which there is an exhibit of Georgia O'Keeffe, an exhibit with an illuminated laser-cut iron cube, an exhibit with light and mathematics at the Peabody Essex Museum.
memories last longer than dreams - in which I have intense dreams, Rachel is unable to contact Leah, and Gabriella brings her family to a Boston Baroque free community concert.
cupid, draw back your bow - in which I discuss the relative merits of the common cold vs the norovirus, snow falls on Priya, and Jack fails to tell the difference between a male and female merganser.
all farewells are sudden - in which Leah leaves my life and I am despondent.
sea change, with monsters - in which I march for Ashley, Holly, and Leah.
teeth dreams - in which the animals don't look great.
otherworldly resonances - in which I hypothesize about the existences of alternate worlds, hear rumors on the death of Assad and fake news on a shooter really being Moroccan and meet someone who's tumblr I read in person and her rats.
daydreaming - in which I post scans of a sketchbook and discuss love, growing up, time, cats, music then vs music now, and plans for the assassination of Marine le Pen.
to see the invisible man - in which I post scans of a sketchbook and think the two halves of winter were switched, Ashley sleeps too much and I sleep too little.
quiet of the night - in which Ashley is scatterbrained and recommends bands that I fail to listen to and I have Malaysian food and see Massenet's Cendrillon and an Andean guitarist.
an arrow through time - in which I procure some books, Ashley recommends various bands and anime and we discuss the cuisine of southeast Asia and far-right movements in Europe and clothing with elephant motifs, various driveways turn into skating rinks, One-Eye fails to get vertical lift and Clamp in Wonderland fails to live up to my lofty expectations.
one of her paths - in which Tiffany tells me that it was in fact One-Eye who got released, while the salamander goes to a better place and we get a goose who is suffering from organophosphate poisoning.
everything that rises must converge - in which I eat Thai food, take the train, procure Thai food, visit the ICA, step in a snowbank, take a wobbly train, and take a train that reversed itself, all on an unseasonably warm February day.
return of a comrade - in which I encounter Chantel at the desk of a small art gallery and I update her on my life because I know Tara would appreciate it.
as time stood vexingly still - in which I discuss the differences between abyssopelagic black and hadeopelagic black and the lifespan of hedgehogs.
the sun is but a morning star - in which Facebook fails to stymie my friendship with Emma and I type "A s" before realizing my mistake, snow melts despite being far below freezing, and I discuss hypothetical pre-Venera Venuses.
days of atonement - in which Gabriella and I hear Durufle's requiem and a motet by Palestrina and poke around Harvard Books without Ashley.
i've been here - in which I go bowling and the bad animation makes Taylor feel confused and infuriated.
hewn from nature - in which I tell a story about bowling shoes and my policy on ninja editing, wish Ashley a happy birthday, and change the water in a turtle pool.
voices from corona borealis - in which I meet a woman with blue hair and a man who speaks Mayan, discover the Sargent murals and admire the Grail murals and the Muses.
a little bird told me - in which I stop counting down to the vernal equinox even though it remained cold and I listen to Tori Amos non-stop and it gets harder and harder to tell the difference between the far right and mainstream conservatives.
mixed skies - in which someone gives a turkey a true name, killing him, a butterfly finds itself in enrichment, and I reach the point in Steins;Gate in which it stops being funny.
deliquescence - in which Emily, TJ, and I clean the fridge at the wildlife center, Margo eats Jolly Rancher popsicles, Emily discusses Washington D.C, and Ashley is more withdrawn than usual and I mistakenly blame spring sadness.
sunrise in aries - in which a turkey's blood fails to cooperate with the lead testing kit, and Jen makes lunch in a pot and eats it before rounds even began.
humanity's tale - in which I remain optimistic, both about humanity and about not getting sick from Jack.
the air stirs - in which Photoshop becomes subscription based.
traces of the beast - in which I explain dog color receptors to a kid, we get some fledgeling birds.
refugees and pilgrims - in which Emma holds an ambient concert, I meet many people named Hannah, a boy from Somalia is eager to be drawn.
among strangers - in which there is a protest in Boston and my sign idea doesn't make sense there, a requiem is performed, and I make Amber feel better with a drawing.
where words fail, music speaks - in which Box of Birds performs on the common and I see an obscure Mozart opera.
business as usual - in which TJ and I speculate on how seriously the Flat Earth Society takes themselves and Margo talks about Moana.
in trouble again - in which I pick a title that relates to Trouble in Tirana not knowing that I would see Twelfth Night again by the end of the year, and an octet performs songs of Shakespeare.
the rich drown in wine - in which Gabriella and I go to an opera and I eat a dish of rapi greens, garlic, pignoli nuts, sundried tomatoes, and currants in capellini, and she gets a salad and risotto.
dirty work - in which the wildlife center has a baby weasel and I get annoyed with Facebook's aggressive user retention methods and learn that squirting oranges and pineapples on fish negates the horrible odors.
transcendence - in which I compare Stalinist Russia and Conservative-Libertarian America's attitude towards the arts, meet someone who reminds me of Ashley and people who were dressed for a 90s-themed bar crawl.
Archive Style - in which I arrive late to a Mayfair on the nicest possible day that week but early enough to catch Noble Dust's full set, buy Celestis for Ashley and begin my troubles, wish I had some Fruit Brute cereal so I can increase the temperature by 17 degrees, people recreate art in chalk, the Russians and Ecuadorians fail to suborn French elections.
disillusioned by the actual - in which I don't bother to learn names, Margo forgets that she can use her boyfriend as a human shield during a potential Purge or zombie apocalypse and blows bubbles.
a world bathed in sunlight - in which I give Laci Green a few weeks before dismissing her as a lost cause and Margo dyes her hair.
elsewhere/here - in which I identify with a hedgehog puppet, someone paints The Scream with Kevin McCallister, the Harvard Art Museum reconstructs a Philosophy Chamber, I obtain some books and don't let Ashley have them and then deface something about kek with stuff about zerg and tell Stephanie about people who wear winter clothing when it's warm and shorts when the windchill drops below subzero.
where soft rains fell - in which Ashley heads off to Europe but not before Danielle tells her a story about otters and I attempt to explain the Aouzou Strip and Toyota War to her, and mistakenly attribute her even worse withdrawnness to the stress of traveling by air and not tesseract or arbiter recall and the stress of car problems.
an idyll for the misbegotten - in which it is unseasonably cold, a libertarian fascist stabs three people on a train in Portland, I find an Arab restaurant which comes at no surprise, and see a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in which Mustardseed is an old-fashioned box of mustard with a face and mustache and Dana is in the audience although I do not actually realize it.
communing with the rain - in which I have a cuteness overload from seeing a weasel, Jacob doesn't bother learning names when the Aggies show up.
monster beach - in which a sculpture race is held, artists draw monsters in a river, Sophie performs the overworld music from the Legend of Zelda on an accordion, google search robots accuse Kevin Harris of being involved with Columbine, I encounter Dana from last year.
lost hope - in which I mistake Jill for Ananya and mistake Ananya for a Hungarian or Hebrew name, a crazy swan lady wants to euthanize all the great blue herons even though they were here first, I listen to Tori Amos and become disillusioned with Laci Green and despondent over Ashley.
dispatches from the revolution - in which a Pride parade, a dance party, and a Shakespeare-themed concert are held on the same day, I meet Jessica who says she sees me a lot, and I suggest sending a Pepe rally to somewhere like Pepperell that isn't Pepperell, like perhaps Mount Ashley or Kyrgyzstan.
she's not there - in which orphaned gray foxes and lead-poisoned waterfowl show up, Greg identifies a night heron, and a baby owl is given to another nest.
mysteries abound - in which I learn that respected newspapers were openly racist, sexist, and classist and wonder just how much things have changed, attempt the World War II scenario as the Spanish Republic, eat a garlic burger while listening to some Argentine musicians play, and get flipped off.
clean is better - in which I draw pictures of horseshoe crabs, someone brings a decapitated nestling and we feed Falco, Brian's dad fails to cook lobster properly, a raccoon dunks his banana in poop before eating it.
my life in paper - in which I remember that I had a bunch of sketchbook pages already photographed but they failed to upload properly.
proud music of the storm - in which I take a detour to the MFA because there's an art of sound installation at a nearby Orange Line station, wonder what the last country to allow same-sex marriage will be, meet a woman with a heron tattoo who thought I was saying hi to her and her corgi, see an opera, and run around trying to find dinner.
slow red - in which Taylor has no idea who Captain Planet is, the night heron lives another day, and I learn about red blood cells.
a taste of the divine - in which a whirlpool spins clockwise and I get lost on the way to Chili Duck and finally get to hear Aliya Cycon play.
the tailor's cut - in which the MIT museum is virtually unchanged since my last visit, the smell of an Indian market makes me happy and hungry, I buy a book with the caveat that if I have it with a different title, I'll attempt to pass it on to Ashley.
atomic fireball (blasted) - in which the Davis Museum is completely transformed since my last visit.
fireworks and memories - in which I try to watch an impromptu fireworks show behind trees and post thoughts on my listening habits for the year.
summer thoughts - in which Jack posts a picture of a goose instead of a picture of a night heron.
God Prefers Gothic - in which it pours rain and I use a thick pen to draw a man who called Snowpiercer "Arctic Train," a woman with tattoos of Boba Fett, and a Michael Jackson impersonator, see some Latin jazz in the Boston Public Library, and Ashley goes by Ashley Fairchild in real life but Ashley Evans-Fairchild online.
in the dark - in which the lights go out across Harvard's campus and I discover a note by Ashley and meet a woman who knows someone who interns at the wildlife center, a woman who gets songs in Swahili stuck in her head, a woman with beautiful tattoos, and a dog named Lana.
for all the dreamers - in which Cassandra writes a poem for me and I explain Irish pronunciation and the Voyage of the Basset, I participate in a collaborative comic about a snake, a bear, and a pancake, learn words in Nahuatl and fail to learn what exactly Hassaleh means, meet people with beautiful tattoos, and hear amazing music with a "voice" theme.
music for a summer evening - in which Gabriella brings a friend along for a concert of aestival music.
radio RX-1 - in which I get sidetracked by art depicting the Trojan War on my way to get a shawarma.
ouroboros festival - in which it is Figment and I meet a troupe of dancers and my lab partner from physics and a woman who gave away free cupcakes.
slipped into sleep - in which Jack uses a game boy camera to take a picture of the night heron.
what rough beast slouches - in which I compare Nuremberg to Lille in an unfavorable way although there are places in France that are worse than Lille and most of them are where Occitan was spoken but no longer, Gabriella takes the extra copy of Celestis that has been burdening me, and I meet a pug named Darth Vader and a woman from Saudi Arabia with impeccable tastes in music.
a midsummer's night - in which a man juggles with swords and the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company uses Dead Can Dance as the soundtrack to Romeo and Juliet.
they also feed - in which an egg plops out of the back end of a chick.
the replica of the soul - in which Ashley and I have a falling out and I can't concentrate on anything because of that and she might have just been stressed out because all her stuff ended up in Ashgabat or South Georgia but probably not, a man from New Delhi describes public transit there.
inside a hollow heart - in which Penelope's eulogy aches, Shelby sees the creepiest thing she's ever seen, a heron dies so there will be no more baby deliveries, and I bring up rails, a possible premonition of the future.
a calling from beyond time - in which I find sumac, a dog named Han shows up, Gabriella tells me a story about her cat getting skunked, Christopher Wilkins says that Boston has become even more diverse since he started his career as conductor, and a group performs a lushly orchestrated pop song about their self-identity.
your shadow on a cloud - in which a man plays violin in the Gardner Museum's courtyard and art installations produce sounds.
mystery by moonlight - in which I meet people with beautiful tattoos and beautifully colored hair and beautiful jewelry, see an art installation of found objects, run into Box of Birds again, Julia Mark sings whimsical songs about static electricity, crescent moons, people on TV, and the end of the world, Lainie Marsh sings about fracking,
the power and the passion - in which an alt-righter runs down a woman with his car, I meet a woman dressed in Ivalician Gothic style and people dressed as comic book characters and many frenchies and shih-tzus, and hear songs about women with eyes the color of almonds and hammers and the Vietnam War and superheroes and rain in Noelle's heart and social justice and try Haitian food.
will to fight - in which I fail to spell Darragh's name, resolve to finally finish watching Steins;Gate, meet several shih-tzus and people from all over the world and a guy named Drew who likes to make art and a woman named Victoria who is half-blonde half-brunette.
not quite alone in the dream quarter - in which Taylor finds a snail and I learn that wallabies are friendlier than kangaroos and a frog-right rally is planned.
Jupiter and Beyond The Infinite - in which the Longwood Symphony Orchestra doesn't make lengthy writeups on the works of music they play so I have to do that for them and Danielle schleps off to New York and does not eat steamed hams because she's in Syracuse, not Albany.
a temporary embarrassment in spacetime - in which I post a wildlife center entry because the one for the ICA overwhelmed me.
sun splashed - in which a woman with snake and rose and bird-woman tattoos calls my artwork dope and check out art by a guy who emigrated from Jamaica and just recently became a citizen, wonder if there's any way to tell if images won't upload to imgur and come to the conclusion that there isn't a blacklist because I can still gank images from Facebook.
time cures nothing - in which I state something I already knew, overhear some conversations.
the melodics of madness - in which Hamlet's father is murdered most foully and Cassie speculates on Ashley.
tyrannicide - in which Julius Caesar is murdered and I ride the train from Alewife to Braintree.
Stirring Them Up as the Keeper of a Menagerie His Wild Beasts - in which the wildlife center gets a new goat
everywhere and no place - in which Ashley seems for a moment friendlier but it is but an illusion, a string ensemble plays in place of the Landmarks Orchestra, and I meet an art teacher.
by moonlight - in which Emma dumps paint on canvases and then paints around the splatters, gives a question and answer session, and speculates on Ashley.
the fruits of friendship - in which I tell Sydney Hardin about Vagrant Story because she has the most Vagrant Story name ever, hear an acoustic version of Atlas Lab and realize I have their songs memorized, hear Molly Pinto Madigan and Mint Green.
hieratic reflections - in which the chimney swifts were released and we share culinary disasters.
of revenge and regret - in which a Mad Genius laments the lack of a drive for revenge but Holly and I are fine with this.
a view from a height - in which Jose brings rains but not fierce winds, I spend an hour looking at Japanese woodblock prints, Ariel is proud that I asked about The Tempest and not The Little Mermaid.
seeing stars - in which Greg and Katrina rescue a dog, Jessica gets a dog, and Zack brings Ziggy around.
meeting you - in which it rains on jazz fest and I am strangely ok with this and a glob of rain water falls on my sketchbook, and Josh is pleased with his mighty jawline.
not to mention jack - in which they Len-proof the enclosure.
stories for children - in which Gabriella and I see an opera in which a child throws a tantrum and is tormented by anthropomorphic household objects and animals and a staged cantata, I find a bag of Indian snack mix they had at Trader Joes back when I was in middle school, I meet a woman with a tattoo of the Bride of Frankenstein, whose name means mandarin orange in Turkish.
no place any more - in which I visibly and obviously stress out Ashley and realize that things will never be the same between us.
stochastic fancy - in which Gabriella and I see Tosca.
dirty reality - in which it rains and the seagull's dinner ferments.
because change was the ocean and we lived by her mercy - in which Neogaf goes through changes and not good changes but on the other hand, the Escapist might shut down and the Amazon Forums are gone, and I realize that 'no place any more' makes more sense for this post.
loathing and fear - in which Ashley is uncomfortable in my presence and I decide instead to wait for her to approach me but doubt that she ever will, Shorty the dog takes on the role of receptionist at the wildlife center, and I attempt to make a Bob Belcher pumpkin.
magic night - in which I meet Lindsay and we guard the spider jack-o-lantern and discuss Final Fantasy and the Legend of Zelda and Mario and Until Dawn until she goes to the bathroom and gets lost, Maggie is way too harsh on Ashley, at least three people named Emily show up, and a guy dressed as a rave walks through the pumpkin trail.
in judgment of ghosts - in which I mistake Lisa Simpson for an albino Statue of Liberty.
the thoughts of the rain - in which I see a jazz oratorio performed, people on the train are dressed in costumes, and I try Persian food.
source decay - in which the pumpkins grow fungus, someone in a supermarket mistakes seagulls for bald eagles, and the shop sells dog christmas ornaments.
reusable universes - in which a Diwali celebration takes place at the Worcester Art Museum.
their undeniable empty obsession of superiority - in which an ape spits on a man, I discuss what music I plan on listening to in December, and a peregrine falcon dies before its picture ends up on the wildlife center's facebook page.
nothing will change - in which Jack learns about delayed posting on Facebook, there is a fragile peace with Ashley, Hitler proves that he's not more rational than Pol Pot by targeting people who speak Esperanto and people named Sara, and Emily contemplates getting rid of the dank.
feeling blood building up - in which I deface some swastika graffiti with Yugoslav Partisans slogans and far-left symbolism, find a Sonic fanfic in which a hedgehog is described as 16 years old, try to upload some pictures to imgur.
victimless crimes - in which I play Apples and Apples with my cousins and am entirely unsurprised to find out that Roph from Gamingforce is an anime right douchebag.
keeping traumain which Sapir details her experiences with sexist tech dudebros, a razorbill is brought to the wildlife center, and Robert Mugabe resigns as El Presidente of Zimbabwe.
across the border - in which a performance of Twelfth Night is held and I sum it up, but fail to find weather stats for Leskoviku or even Frashër, and rank the zodiac signs in Rand McNally.
for a place in the sky - in which a deer noshes on a pumpkin while I walk my dog, spend five minutes looking for my camera, and go back to take a picture of him, Saleh is assassinated, Emily has her first non-sad lunch, laments the Trump presidency and imitates razorbills.
taking in the trash - in which I learn that there are diets listed for deer and I'm not entirely sure why, net neutrality is dismantled, Emily sings Christmas songs and imitates razorbills.
an empty vessel - in which the wildlife center has a lot of geese and hawks.
things that are beautiful and transient - in which ice storms befall central Massachusetts, I plan on calling every cat I meet Ashley when it's not their name, Ashley shows more emotion than I've ever seen from her and a day later, I am happy to see her for the first time since April, and Sam gloats about the death of the Incels subreddit.
memories of happier days - in which I post drawings despite Robert Mugabe being alive and Ashley not being any more pleasant to be around than she usually is.
the alcubiere break - in which there is an exhibit of Georgia O'Keeffe, an exhibit with an illuminated laser-cut iron cube, an exhibit with light and mathematics at the Peabody Essex Museum.
memories last longer than dreams - in which I have intense dreams, Rachel is unable to contact Leah, and Gabriella brings her family to a Boston Baroque free community concert.
