{"id":84,"date":"2004-09-21T10:48:45","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T17:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2004-09-21T10:48:45","modified_gmt":"2004-09-21T17:48:45","slug":"half-empty-half-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2004\/09\/21\/half-empty-half-fool\/","title":{"rendered":"Half empty, half fool"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So here I sit, in my perch of power,
high above the world (about 4′ up) in
my gigantor throne of referenceness;
when all of a sudden my empty library fills.
I just went from ten students cheerily emailing
to 50 students and a nun frantically hitting
ctrl-p “PRINT!” like armaggedon’s scheduled
just after lunch. Nobody sent me the memo.<\/p>\n

Port Townsend didn’t happen. Nor did the
pajama party (which I failed to mention previously),
nor did the big lunch date. So, I vegetated
all weekend (mine is Sunday and Monday); and
developed a serious case of the red eye –
“blood for eyes”. Gah!<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Tonight is the dance of swing: the end of
one week of patience and the beginning of a new.
I’ve been working on letting things be what they are.<\/p>\n

I remember too well the summer before I met Emily,
pining about at two in the morning;
walking across town to tap-tap-tap at
Theo’s windows so we could drive to Denny’s and
have an exi-romanti-crisal midnight-freakout;
chasing after a girl that never wanted to be caught
but was completely willing to use me for a thrill.<\/p>\n

And yet even now I’m unsure if:
those were the best of times,
or the worst of times.<\/p>\n

But the fact that I’m quoting Dickens scares me.
Time to flee. Ciao.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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