Friday, July 25, 2008

sing a song for me


There are quite a lot of things on my mind at the moment - a few might have beens, a few more what will bees, and the general state of what is now(s). The thoughts build up there in the strange place between heart and brain, rolling around in the dust, gathering bits and pieces from older leftover thoughts and growing in proportion - way beyond their intended state.

Sometimes I feel like the thoughts are like marbles, hard and round and rolling around loudly as I shake my head - eventually becoming lost under the fridge forever. (I wonder what a mind fridge looks like... Either I'm totally lost in my pseudo metaphor or I'm on to something. Something about cooling units and... stuff. *waves all-encompassing hand*). But not tonight - tonight the thoughts are amorphous things that gather energy from every added thought until my mind burns, even sizzles, with the heat of them right there beneath the surface.

A main thought at the moment is "but I was so fucking happy!" or other variants of "it's not fair dammit." But really, new developments don't necessarily mean the end of happiness. It's just that when I'm in this state of mind I tend to get stuck on the process, rather than the eventual outcome.

It will be alright though, in the end. Another entry in the lifebook and all that jazz. This too shall pass (pass the salt, I have an open wound that needs a-treatin'). It's just that I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. And so the thoughts gather heat.


Wednesday, July 9, 2008

SMX

So there's a guy. Well, let's capitalize him - A Guy, because it's not really the specific dude who matters, but rather the idea of him. A Guy changes in identity every once in a while, depending on circumstances (usually involving copious amounts of alcohol) and coincidence -- the planets align themselves in such a manner (a manner of alcohol!) and events run a predestined course which ends in the bedroom. Or maybe in the public bathroom... *shifty eyes*. Whatever floats your boat.

Now, the dilemma is of course the determiner, because if we were speaking of The Guy, everything would be different (except the alcohol - that's a constant.). A Guy is much more fluid and changing, and has a whole different set of "rules" to him, which are hard to keep track of. In this case, A Guy walks into a bar one late night, and perhaps this is the second such night, and invites you back to his love nest. Things progress in the expected manner, and much fun is had, weehee!

Fast forward a few days and boredom, insomnia, horniness, tingly bones, excitement etc all coalesce in the form of a deep insistent desire to send a text message. An sms, or rather an smX (Gettit? See what I did there? With the X???) which wouldn't necessarily be a booty call per se, but rather some form of primitive flirting, and attention grabbing. The smx would of course be pondered over and thought through, and would emerge perfectly formed from the thigh of Zeus - "So..... Sup? *insert eyebrow waggle here*"

Then what? Ah! That is the question of course. You never can tell what the smx will bring, but in most cases it won't be exactly what you want and need at that late hour of the night and then you're left with a slight bitter taste in your mouth. "Well, wasn't that a waste of time and energy. Meh." Because of course you need him to answer all the bazillion layers of subtext you put into that text, and really - there aren't many that can drop into your subconscious like that and dig you right away. And if they could - well, then perhaps there would be a question of determiner once again.

So instead of writing to A Guy, I write to You, oh non-existent-yet-perhaps-future-reader. Whaddaya say? Wanna take a bath?