6 03 pm pst   [ gossip ]

On Wednesday, Jane wanted to soak in the sun, so we drove to a lookout spot to enjoy the hazy view and then went walking along the muddy trails of the Regional Park. We talked, and I must admit we mostly talked about boys (and wouldn't you know Jane went off and met another guy that very night).

And then that night, some time after midnight, Catherine ran up her phone bill chatting with me for hours. We talked about a wide range of subjects, and we too had our moments of gossip about various members of the communtiy.

I need that. I needed to gossip. It has been months -- and suddenly I got to twice in one day. I try not to talk behind peoples' backs, but complaining is one of the ways humans relate.

Exes make perfect fodder for story telling. Most anyone in a social circle does, but exes have benefits. You generally don't care if what you say makes them mad. There's something to that...

I don't know what it is about gossip that is so satisfying and serves to bring people together, but it is a strange phenomenon. I am glad I was able to get a little pinch of it in my life to keep me going for another six months.

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two years ago today: "I was getting very frustrated with the play I am working on. The set is minimal, so my workload from the start was less than I had expected. There were no flats to be constructed, nor structures to be built. I was beginning to feel very unwanted."

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one year ago today: "In my film theory class last semester, we read an article by Kracaur called Radical Boredom, in which you must get so bored that you transcend boredom into revolutionary thought. I am about ready for this transcendence."

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