blustocking | coco nauts

"We're continually surprised to find, when we want something, that thousands or millions of others want it, too--that other human beings get hot in summer and cold in winter. The worst traffic jams occur when a mass of vacationing tourists start home early to "beat the traffic." We're too enamored of the individualistic fantasy that everyone is, or should be, different--that a man could somehow build his entire life around some single eccentricity without boring himself and everyone else to death. We all have our quirks, which provide surface variety, but aside from this, human beings have little basis for their persistent claim that they are not all members of the same species." --The Pursuit of Loneliness, Philip Slater

There's a longer entry, private. Pictures, still lingering on a memory stick.
But I'm tired.
I'd like nothing more than to be sleeping with the man I love, but I won't get that until tomorrow. So the sooner I go to sleep tonight...