November

i keep forgetting to carry notecards around with me on which to write my incredible ideas.

this is a major problem i have: poor memory. a friend told me a few days ago about a conversation i had with her. i stared at her blankly while i desperately searched the reaches of my memory. no dice. maybe it wasn’t an important conversation, but it sure sounded like one. i want to start remembering things again. i was good until the drugs broke me. it’s a horrible thing to have the presence of mind to see memories slip away, to be unable to choose which to keep. but that’s progress in itself, right? seeing it? before, i didn’t realize i didn’t remember. well, i did, but i was too high to care. i guess i do remember more now than nine months ago. i’m just impatient.

in other news, november was a really good month, and some congrats are in order:

congrats to my new brother-in-law, for gaining an incredible partner. also for being a bigger nerd than jonathan (earnest basilisk soliloquy).
congrats to my sister, for taking a name of equal caliber to nix.
congrats to me, for not getting high in missouri for the first time in several years.
congrats to nicky and angela, for being the best people with whom to take a road-trip and, duh, be friends.
congrats to mr and mrs pope, for world’s most outrageous bonfire and world’s most thankful thanksgiving, respectively. we didn’t burn down the neighbors’!

here’s to the gradual healing of all wounds, by the goodness and power of my Lord Jesus.