HOLD ON TIGHT

HE SAID, MARIE, MARIE, HOLD ON TIGHT And when we were children, staying at the archduke's, My cousin's, he took me out on a sled, And I was frightened. He said, Marie, Marie, hold on tight. And down we went. In the mountains, there you feel free. I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. ~ The Waste Land, "The Burial of The Dead", Eliot Friday, March 14, 2008 green dragon day today i have to go to work at the press, also trying to understand the meaning of "sacred life", dinner tonight, also have to meet up with my prof. biked to school today, then went to the public service center. i'm tired, but happy. i walked past trees strung with toilet paper today. the architects pulled a prank in anticipation of green dragon day. every year, on the last friday of spring, the cornell architects emerge from the architecture building with a huge dragon made of paper. it is long, huge. they parade around the arts quad, string toilet paper around the trees, march to torment the engineers in their quad, and then set a weeks' work aflame. imagining setting a week of work aflame, a year of work aflame, years of work set aflame. i should do what the architects do, create a dragon, and then on the week before the spring equinox, close my eyes, extinguish it like a candle. happy unbirthday, i say, (like yesterday, slightly embarrassed that what was held out was a hazelnut, chocolatey thing. i don't eat chocolate, i tried to explain), but happy unbirthday, may tomorrow be better. / on another note, i took my friend's keys, and drove to the mall myself today. i got myself a pair of running shoes and new jeans. i feel so liberated. finally. i had been waiting for this for so damn long. i even gave my friend a lift--and completely freaked her out--when the cars behind me started horning. and i have both jm/ernest's and wangwang's keys for spring break while they're gone. i better pass my driving test next week. :) oh what would i give to have some mobility! posted by dawn # 8:55 AM Comments: Post a Comment << Home		[publishing] Publishers Weekly . Dystel & Goderich . New York Center for Independent Publishing . Association of American University Presses . Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators [people] clarisse . nurul . aunty zarina (ummi's bakery) . jeremy . pak . cyril . softblow . karen & kenny (booksactually) . eric . joel . [other loves] digitaljournalist . ballet dictionary . poetshouse . urbanwordnyc [me] dawn, singapore, new york city, ithaca. [yesterday] lovely arcana imperii traveling memories beautiful sunset mister sun beautiful so sweet, and so cold the raven science and biology [archives] January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009

HE SAID, MARIE, MARIE, HOLD ON TIGHT

And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

~ The Waste Land, "The Burial of The Dead", Eliot

Friday, March 14, 2008

green dragon day

today i have to go to work at the press, also trying to understand the meaning of "sacred life", dinner tonight, also have to meet up with my prof. biked to school today, then went to the public service center. i'm tired, but happy.

i walked past trees strung with toilet paper today. the architects pulled a prank in anticipation of green dragon day. every year, on the last friday of spring, the cornell architects emerge from the architecture building with a huge dragon made of paper. it is long, huge. they parade around the arts quad, string toilet paper around the trees, march to torment the engineers in their quad, and then set a weeks' work aflame. imagining setting a week of work aflame, a year of work aflame, years of work set aflame. i should do what the architects do, create a dragon, and then on the week before the spring equinox, close my eyes, extinguish it like a candle. happy unbirthday, i say, (like yesterday, slightly embarrassed that what was held out was a hazelnut, chocolatey thing. i don't eat chocolate, i tried to explain), but happy unbirthday, may tomorrow be better.

/ on another note, i took my friend's keys, and drove to the mall myself today. i got myself a pair of running shoes and new jeans. i feel so liberated. finally. i had been waiting for this for so damn long. i even gave my friend a lift--and completely freaked her out--when the cars behind me started horning. and i have both jm/ernest's and wangwang's keys for spring break while they're gone. i better pass my driving test next week. :) oh what would i give to have some mobility!

posted by dawn # 8:55 AM

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