Dreißig Giraffen im Einkaufszentrum

Dreißig Giraffen gehen ins Einkaufszentrum. Die Giraffen wollen Schuhe. Die Giraffen brauchen einhundertundzwanzig Schuhe,aber die Giraffen haben kein Geld.

Die Giraffen weinen.

Die dreißig Tierpfleger kommen, um zu sehen, was passiert ist. Die Giraffen sagen, wir wollen einhundertundzwanzig Schuhe, aber wir haben kein Geld. Die Giraffen wissen nicht, dass sie Geld brauchen. Die Tierpfleger bezahlen für die Schuhe mit Einnahmen von Eintrittskarten in den Zoo.

Die Giraffen ziehen viele Besucher an.

Die Giraffen gehen zurück in den Zoo mit jeweils vier Schuhen.

Die Tierpfleger geben den Giraffen dreißig Euro als Taschengeld, damit sie nicht mehr im Einkaufszentrum weinen.

後來

車子在老闆南遷之後好幾次覺得被吊去殺肉（台語）也還不錯，因為當時老闆每週北上南下，兼顧家庭與工作，讓車子好吃不消。「我老了！！！」車子每次開上高速公路看到年輕小伙子飛快的跑著就越發的感受到了他自己的年紀，而這時老闆其實也慢慢在籌備要換新車的費用了。雖然雙方都漸漸感到在一起的日子不會太長久了，但是還是各自盡力充實的度過所剩的時間。不管太陽再烈，馬路上的柏油再燙，車子還是盡責的鞭策自己（每次終於到了停車位的時候就馬上昏倒），而老闆也很大方的帶它去自動洗過了好幾次，讓車子再也不覺得自動洗有什麼稀奇了。

因為老闆與老闆娘初期相遇的時候就是開著著車子，而且還暱稱它「小豬肝」（被太陽曬到退成豬肝色的紅車），所以連老闆娘想到車子就要退休了也覺得有點依依不捨。「這樣下去不是辦法的，我哪天毛病發作就會很不安全了」，車子自己私下盤算等到自己真的撐不下去了以後就乾脆不再發動了吧，寧可這樣也比在路上拋錨或失控來的好... 

After I quit my job

... I started doing mostly what I liked except when I sometimes had to do things I didn't like. I'm intensely happy almost all of the time, even though I make very little money now. But that will change - I'm trying to get a lot of projects on the road.

Half my time is spent turning down the things I don't want to do, and that's the hardest - saying no to an opportunity. But I try to remember that I'm doing this to do what I want, not whatever other people offer me.

Unrelatedly something I saw today.

You never thought you could

But you can, and it's a lot better. 

Today's lunch: egg salad mayonnaise with pickles.

Insecurities

隨時感覺到的是自己的痛處 - 小小的弱點跟其他人完全無關, 但是受了恐懼的慫恿, 卻攻擊了他人, 真是不公平.

As usual

it's a conceptual problem and I know of only one way to work it through. What I need to know is where the bottom line is, and everything above it will be real.

When are you moving here?

 Alex:  not today

 me:  what?

but I have the guest bed all ready

and flowers on the table!

the flowers!

 Alex:  !

 me:  sadness

 Alex:  tragedy

 me:  heartbreak loss and inexpressible longing

etc.

Walking last night...

among the realization of the dreams of others, I felt an acute sense of anxiety and disappointment. I should have started years and years ago! Never doubt your instincts. 

May your fears

... never be realized.

The luxuries

... we don't have. 

Turn around

... walk away. Look at something else for a while.

Like this headboard.

[via A beautiful Mess]

I want to make one just to hang on the wall. How about "what the fuck have you done" or "how long has it been going on"? (non-indicative of present condition - just two phrases that have a lot of thought provoking potential)

Or this much deliciousness.

[via A beautiful Mess]

Today I...

can't be reached.

Drawing boxes...

to figure out how to read 簡譜, and I get from you: "why can't you draw circles like everyone else?"

When I asked you for help...

I'm not sure how you buttoned up the back of my top this morning but it's been undoing itself all day long. Totally sub-standard. Either that or my top is having a very different sort of day from the sort of day I'm having. Makes me slightly envious.

The question is

... can you step out of yourself? Move one square back from the front line of stress and the bombardment of shit hitting the fan in every direction.

So it's not perfect.

So you forgot.

So you could have done something different, something better.

So. What? (那.又.怎.麼.樣)

There's a wall papered in floral pattern between me and the feelings I will choose not to feel. The desires and demands that I will choose not to have. Today I will choose who I want to be, the emotions I want to have.