Irritated about how even Desperate Housewives has messages against women emasculating their husbands, right alongside men using femininity as an insult (even in front of women) when talking to other men as acceptable behavior.

"Something as natural as walking consists of repeatedly setting the body off kilter. Each time we shift our weight from one foot to the other we lose our balance for a fraction of a second. We learn to walk by learning to displace ourselves without falling, and recovering our balance almost simultaneously." - Ghost Radio by Leopold Gout.

I don't remember the plot of the book, but the passage haunts me, I think of it often. Found it in my guitar notes, scrawled on a scrap of paper.

I am once again thoroughly pleased with my self awareness and how I've realized I might not ever fully learn the guitar, but I will certainly pick it up periodically, and need a cheat sheet for all the stuff I forgot. This thing has proven useful many times. Got the nails trimmed, I wonder how long I'll stick with it this time.

Found more four and five leaf producing rhizomes for the lucky clover pot. Some of the previous transplants have withered, but I had a new five leaf already come up. Some of the new ones are trodden from being too close to the stepping stones, little battered bits of things cherished for their rarity, crushed underfoot. I like the poetry.

I just had a residential boy's home reach out to me in person to ask me to apply. I really thought I'd be stuck in temp work for several months before I found something in my desired field, this is cool.