June 2008

• @jessicahalem I ended up staying in cuz of the rain! Sorry luv! Get your loot and get the hell outta there! #
• @jessicahalem you sound effin desperate sister! Get your insurance check first before the homos! #
• @conservadora July = 2 things: Le your de France AND my birthday month! I take more than a day and just celebrate the whole damn month! #
• @jessicahalem you’re hilarious! #
• @conservadora Thanks, lady! I’m celebrating or will soon starting 01 July! #
• @conservadora just sent you an email #
• Only in TX will you hear something @ beating a teen for Jesus! Something from the supreme court? #
• @jessicahalem: hilarious! #
• And I’m anxiously waiting for Le Tour! #
• @jessicahalem: how’d it turn out yesterday? I mean, I know it was raining and all! #
• @jessicahalem: yes yes! #
• @conservadora I can see this point, certainly! However, as a comedian, shouldn’t the tweets be taken as such if coming from Halem?! #
• There is a guy talking on his mobile and driving his Vespa! Crazy! #

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• Ok, so I’m eating ice cream and loving it! #
• Happy pride/queer life to Chicago! #
• @jessicahalem: I’ll be at the bash today; I see you’re hosting! #
• Thank you Judith Butler: “I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.” #
• @jessicahalem you know that miller lite is just like H2O! Drink it up!! #
• @conservadora: when’s this thing gonna end? #
• Ok, I think its over? Mass people congregating means what exactly? #

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Sunday’s prose:

In grad school I purchased a book entitled:  Living the Questions.  I remember the book clearly.  This text, however, was as book discussing the theological implications of the Nicene Creed, Feminist Theology, and the ways in which culture impacts the questions we ask and live.  I find myself now “living the questions” but living “different” questions.

So, I’m living the questions.  Some days I’m wondering what questions, really!  What really am I asking?  Am I simply existing or am I living critically?  Am I using the lens that I have been given as a theologian?  How many steps back do I need to take to reclaim the questions that I need to ask, or should I simply need to keep walking faithfully and intentionally forward in the manner that I am?  Its hard to tell!  Are my questions becoming an “old time memory,” or are my questions becoming something different?  

I know I’m moving and changing and evolving, and my writing is incorporating my current experiences.  The loss of the academy is certainly a loss, and I’m trying to incorporate that loss into my experience!  I know NOT applying again feels right!  I look at my book shelf and I’m not compelled to read the texts?  Kind of odd, I know!  I’m not compelled to talk high theory, which is also kind of odd, I know!  A phase?  A twist in the tunnel?  Another question for me to ask, for sure!

The horizon still looks amazing; the future remains hopeful, and I’m grateful!  I’m committed to living the questions–Texas Style which is braggadocios!  Though, I should mention, I might swagger in a queer manner but I’m not cocky nor am I pretentious!

• @conservadora: and that’s what I like to hear, or rather see! How’s your research/job/summer going? #
• @conservadora: Thanks for the evite! #
• Now, the question is: am I dyke marching tomorrow! #
• Thinking about going for a run! #
• so much for my run! got caught up in the pride run! #
• breakfast! #

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Outside of being caught up in the Pride run today, I’ve been thinking about what I call the Ritual of writing.  Considering the PhD just doesn’t tickle my throat like the hops and barley do at the Hopleaf.  Despite the fact that I have spent long hard hours on a Master’s degree from NWU and can talk high theory and all, I’m just not convinced that the PhD is part of my journey!  For a long time I thought it was.  In fact, I poured all of my energy into finding the “right” program!  From California, to New York, to Latin America to even England!  Today, however, I’m happy not reading 400+ pages or writing 20-30 page papers.

Do I miss the way the pages of books feel against my fingertips as I flip the pages or run my fingertips along the page?  Absolutely!  Do I miss writing out an outline?  Sure!  But, that’s why I’m learning to find the space in between academia and blogging, the space of creative non-fiction that perhaps fuels the ritual of writing!  I’m learning to find the space in between so many things–its the space that unites the friendship and the fear!  Its the way love unites Life and Death, my friends!

The task of translating high theory into manageable pieces of literature is really where it is for me.  I do see the elements of eroticism of writing that combine with the creative non-fiction pieces:  poetry, memoir, etc.  In fact, I’ve recently been thinking about the role of food and writing!  

There’s so much out there that is fodder for analysis–from the earth grown agave Tequila to swanky vegetarian food–about which I could write!  All of which is creative non-fiction and all of which is celebrating the ritual of writing!  This is all part of my story that is ever growing, and its all part of my Chicago story, which is certainly SO different than my TX story!

Evolution Revolution–this is the chimp story!  More to come!

• Why do folks zigzag on the bike path when they’re jogging? #
• And it appears as though ppl are googling me? Good thing I can track this stuff! #
• @jessicahalem: b/c they sweat? #
• @jessicahalem: it is what it is! #
• Chimp coaster week! #
• So, if G-rod cuts the budget by 2 billion $, what will be left standing? #
• Charity in all things! #
• I actually cleaned my desk and am working! I know! Big surprise! #
• Its Friday and I’m kicking it at a club tonight with the chimp family! Nice! #
• @conservadora: Prolly not! But, I may be up for it? I’d have to ride down? I don’t know? #
• @conservadora: nice! What time does it start? #

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