Get There From Here

Well, I suppose it was bound to happen: a mental health website found Poor Impulse Control and linked to that last post. Fine, fine. I could use the traffic. I guess. Hard to tell what good that sort of scrutiny might do a glossy glamorpuss like me, now that I’m completely secure. Which I am. Obviously. Here’s how I have come to this conclusion: a bazillion years ago or last December, the unnamed university posted a position at my current level that would head up the unnamed university’s anti-hunger campaign. I lack ambition – one of my most endearing qualities, perhaps even exceeding my humility and moral sloth – so when I applied for the position I didn’t entertain any thought of actually having the job. No, I wanted to talk with someone over at the campaign about how spazzy and off-putting that campaign is. Small wonder, then, that rather than call and demand from me pearls of sweet-smelling wisdom, someone sent a brief email dripping with disdain and if possible electronic goo. I laughed. The campaign’s spring food drive is chugging along without any publicity or donations in my building. I feel like I should do something to save this situation from its inevitable failure, though I’m not sure the campaign designers would listen. After all, in email form, I apparently reek.

So yeah: what’s a fucking do-gooder to do when do-gooders are fucking up? That’s philosophy, yo.

Gonna Make Your Life So Sweet

Between the seedlings we bought and the seeds we germinated, the garden is starting to look very promising. The windowbox at right hosts a thicket of young radishes; in the greenhouse sits another windowbox the same size planted with cabbage and kale. I worked at this all afternoon and I’m so bleary I’m struggling with words. In fact, I have no idea what I’m talking about. So: ocelots. I haven’t been able to construct much of a sentence since we drove to the pinko health food store in Princeton and found a car in a handicap space with a Bush/Cheney bumper sticker and another that said SAVING AMERICA FROM SOCIALISM. In the parking lot OF THE HEALTH FOOD STORE. I guess you could overlook the organics, the grassroots political organizing, the employees’ Che Guevara t-shirts, the holistic medicines and natural body products for the crazy-expensive prepared foods, which smell good enough to be a crime. I mean, sheeeeeeeeit. I’d egg that car, but it’d be a cage-free organic brown egg and those fuckers are expensive!