sirens late at night. i still most love the time after everyone else has gone to bed and i am still awake. and i am working on something. even the crisper air, my cold toes, somehow add to the appreciation of it.

in italy there are these government funded campaigns/advertisements to end homophobia and to stop racism, i think these are fantastic things for a government to invest time and attention in.

lately i have been thinking about the past decade, but i was reminded that the decade doesn't end for another year, so i will keep my thoughts thinking.

there is a very lovely quote in the man without qualities that ends with, "finally one has no way of knowing whether the world has really grown worse, or oneself merely older."

right now, as i listen to the elevator, i feel like this.