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Mar. 21st, 2003 04:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threeplusfireI'd forgotten, in the years since the dotcom, how much I liked being a nightshift person. I can go to the grocery store at four in the morning and live a life that is in some ways much quieter and more suited to my needs. The only downside at the moment is that I do not live alone, so I can not play my music on the stereo in the living and run around cleaning. I have to settle with listening to the dishwasher and the soft sound of my steamer ticking away.
Because I bought reasonable food, I'm making steamed dumplings right now. I have stuff for couscous this weekend, some oranges, yogurt, marinara sauce and garlic cheese tortellini. And a copy of Vanity Fair just because I know I'll want to lay around on Saturday and read it while I eat my couscous and oranges.
I am tired, but there are many hours to go before I can sleep, and things to do.
The New York Times has a photo series titled Facing Combat up right now. It's a series of portraits of soldiers in their gear, and it's amazing how young some of them arm. There's a nineteen year old girl who looks like someone I knew in middle school, and I forget that a lot of those people are my age or even younger. I wonder what they all are doing, and if they are all coming back. I can't focus on the larger nature of this conflict right now. For me, all I see are these faces. Women and men who look so young, so hopeful, so determined to be brave. And I start to wonder what it looks like on the other side.
War is a terrible thing, even if you're trying to accomplish something good.
There are so many things kicking around my head right now that I can scarely get them out.
Because I bought reasonable food, I'm making steamed dumplings right now. I have stuff for couscous this weekend, some oranges, yogurt, marinara sauce and garlic cheese tortellini. And a copy of Vanity Fair just because I know I'll want to lay around on Saturday and read it while I eat my couscous and oranges.
I am tired, but there are many hours to go before I can sleep, and things to do.
The New York Times has a photo series titled Facing Combat up right now. It's a series of portraits of soldiers in their gear, and it's amazing how young some of them arm. There's a nineteen year old girl who looks like someone I knew in middle school, and I forget that a lot of those people are my age or even younger. I wonder what they all are doing, and if they are all coming back. I can't focus on the larger nature of this conflict right now. For me, all I see are these faces. Women and men who look so young, so hopeful, so determined to be brave. And I start to wonder what it looks like on the other side.
War is a terrible thing, even if you're trying to accomplish something good.
There are so many things kicking around my head right now that I can scarely get them out.
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Date: 2003-03-21 02:43 pm (UTC)