Subway coincidences
Apr. 15th, 2006 05:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagon1) While in the Park Street subway stop today, I noticed a girl wearing a black tank top, boot-cut jeans rolled up once to show her ankles, and red ballet flats. That girl looks great, I thought. If I were a Glamour photographer I'd take a shot right now and use it as a Do picture. Then I walked around a little knot of people and saw a second woman dressed the same way, except with those thin red Asian-print type shoes. Perhaps it's already been a Do picture.
2) While in the library I looked for Female Chauvanist Pigs by Ariel Levy, which apparently doesn't add much to third-wave feminist discourse but looked like fun to me (I haven't read much 3rd wave that I know of, anyway). They didn't have it because all copies were checked out. Then on the train coming home, after I left the library empty-handed because an alarm went off saying there was an emergency in the building, I saw a girl on the train reading a library copy of it. I'm blogging this one, I thought. I followed her up out of the T stop in a very creepy way, trying to get close enough to see if the book was from the BPL or if it was just from a school library, but failed, leaving me with only a nagging suspicion.
3) Earlier today I succeeded in hopping up into a (bent-legged) handstand with both feet at once, keeping feet and legs together, and tapping my toes on the wall. It was repeatable, too -- I did it 3 or 4 times, and it wasn't all that much physical effort, it was much more of a technique thing. Needless to say, I now consider this a completely unimpressive accomplishment, but you know what'd be REALLY cool is if I could... no! dammit! What I did is just as impressive as I would have thought it was yesterday and so there, brain, and it was fun, too. :)
4) In the spirit of full disclosure: #3 had nothing to do with either subways or coincidences, but rather was an essentially predictable result of focus and practice that occurred at a bit above ground level near the top of a small hill.
2) While in the library I looked for Female Chauvanist Pigs by Ariel Levy, which apparently doesn't add much to third-wave feminist discourse but looked like fun to me (I haven't read much 3rd wave that I know of, anyway). They didn't have it because all copies were checked out. Then on the train coming home, after I left the library empty-handed because an alarm went off saying there was an emergency in the building, I saw a girl on the train reading a library copy of it. I'm blogging this one, I thought. I followed her up out of the T stop in a very creepy way, trying to get close enough to see if the book was from the BPL or if it was just from a school library, but failed, leaving me with only a nagging suspicion.
3) Earlier today I succeeded in hopping up into a (bent-legged) handstand with both feet at once, keeping feet and legs together, and tapping my toes on the wall. It was repeatable, too -- I did it 3 or 4 times, and it wasn't all that much physical effort, it was much more of a technique thing. Needless to say, I now consider this a completely unimpressive accomplishment, but you know what'd be REALLY cool is if I could... no! dammit! What I did is just as impressive as I would have thought it was yesterday and so there, brain, and it was fun, too. :)
4) In the spirit of full disclosure: #3 had nothing to do with either subways or coincidences, but rather was an essentially predictable result of focus and practice that occurred at a bit above ground level near the top of a small hill.
