<p>ⓒ Richard Levitte</p>
http://journal.richard.levitte.org/tags/random/Richard Levitte's journalikiwiki2010-01-13T10:51:56ZHappy New Year 2010http://journal.richard.levitte.org/entries/happy-new-year-2010/2010-01-13T10:51:56Z2010-01-01T18:51:22Z
<p>I hope the start of this year, and the end of last year was good
for you. It certainly was for me...</p>
<p>I find I needed this.</p>
<p>Last time, it didn't turn out well... to the point that I've
regularly called it "the New Year's Eve from hell". As a result,
though, I learned a few things about myself. Still...</p>
<p>So, this New Year's Eve was celebrated with friends... <a href=
"http://journal.richard.levitte.org/people/UlE/" rel='friend kin met'>good, close friends</a> and
<a href="http://journal.richard.levitte.org/people/K/" rel='friend kin ex-sweetheart met'>loved
ones</a>. Informal, no shoulds, no musts, and yet, we did what
people usually do at this time, freely, comfortably.</p>
<p>I needed this.<br />
To compensate among others, certainly, and still<br />
We needed this.</p>
Swine flue...http://journal.richard.levitte.org/entries/flue/2009-11-24T15:40:09Z2009-11-24T15:40:09Z
<p>... seems to be the subject du jour these days... anywhere I go,
among the first thing I hear people ask each other is if they'd had
their shot yet.</p>
<p>Today was my turn, apparently... A guy I talk with at times
while doing laundry asked me that after the standard "How are
you?"...</p>
<p>People are worried, people are checking... and yet, people don't
seem very worried, it's more just checking the status of current
interests than any actual worry.</p>
<p>I haven't taken any shots, and I won't. I highly doubt I need
it, as I've been through having variants of flue in the 80's that
I'm told makes me immune to this one. Either way, I usually don't
take flue shots anyway, I'm live and kicking, and if I had a flue a
couple of years ago, it was pretty mild, I was back on my feet
within a week. I do believe that avoiding the shots and getting
sick a little now and then help you build up an immunity at least
as well as any vaccine.</p>
Alone...http://journal.richard.levitte.org/entries/alone/2009-04-27T02:41:20Z2009-04-27T02:41:20Z
<p>There are times when I really feel very alone.</p>
<p>Like right now, when I've just had a somewhat harsh exchange,
and I'd like to talk with someone, and it feels like I've noone to
talk to except the one I had that exchange with and two common
friends that I really don't want to involve... I'd love to vent,
I'd like to whine, and the only people I know that I can do that
with are currently thoroughle asleep in a time zone that's 6 hours
ahead of the one I'm in.</p>
<p>Bleah!</p>
<p>I need to find other friends here in Boston...</p>
I love morning misthttp://journal.richard.levitte.org/entries/I-love-morning-mist/2009-04-13T07:16:19Z2009-04-13T07:16:19Z
<p>There's a serenity with morning mist, a timelessness that wraps
me and has me just stand and watch in stillness, watch everything
disappear in the grey unknown, like a mystery waiting far beyond...
or watch the mist from a tall building when it climbs out of a lake
and wraps trees, houses, covers roads, cars, grassy pains...</p>
<p>I love it, just love it. It calms me down, makes me still, takes
away stress and other wordly things, makes me just be, remaining in
love and love alone.</p>
The guy who was with the girl in our apartment...http://journal.richard.levitte.org/entries/the-guy-who-was-with-the-girl-in-our-apartment/2009-04-12T21:22:46Z2009-04-12T21:22:46Z
<p>I've a friend who, when getting to know where I live, told me he
had lived in the same building...</p>
<p>It turns out his girlfriend at the time ('87) lived in the
apartment I live in now!</p>
<p>Small world, eh? And somehow, this leaves a warm fuzzy feeling
in me <img src="http://journal.richard.levitte.org/smileys/smile.png" alt=":-)" /></p>
Early mornings, again...http://journal.richard.levitte.org/entries/early-mornings-2/2009-04-07T14:32:56Z2009-04-07T14:32:56Z
<p>I thought I <a href="http://journal.richard.levitte.org/entries/early-mornings/">woke up
early last saturday</a>... Today, it went from odd to crazy. Why
did I wake up at 4.40? After having slept for less than 5
hours?</p>
<p>Of course, it meant that by 11, I needed to go to sleep again
for a couple of hours... It's a good think I'm working from home
and can decide my own working hours... I'll enjoy that while I
can.</p>
Dresscodehttp://journal.richard.levitte.org/entries/dresscode/2009-04-13T07:06:05Z2009-04-04T18:03:56Z
<p>I was a little amazed today, when I realised that my personal
dresscode is a tad stricter than "basic black"... No, washed out
black jeans with a beginning hole on the left knee just doesn't cut
it, even though I've been assured (to my surprise) that they do
fall within the definition of "basic black".</p>
<p>I'm happy, though... found a pair of second hand leather pants
today for almost no money at all.</p>
Early mornings...http://journal.richard.levitte.org/entries/early-mornings/2009-04-04T06:25:27Z2009-04-04T06:25:27Z
<p>I woke up early this morning, again. It seems to be something I
do when there's more early morning light. It's amazing in a way,
'cause there was a time when sunlight wouldn't influence on my
sleeping pattern at all. But now it does, and it feels odd,
especially a morning like this, when I wake up and instantly feel
tired, but still can't get back to sleep... and quite honestly,
being more of a late night person, I feel kind of out of place
being up this early...</p>
<p>But now that I've been up for a couple of hours, maybe I can get
back to sleep a couple more hours? Pretty please?</p>
Meeting againhttp://journal.richard.levitte.org/entries/meeting-again/2009-10-03T12:50:31Z2009-04-02T22:52:29Z
<p>I haven't seen <a href="http://journal.richard.levitte.org/people/AsF/" rel=
'friend ex-sweetheart met'>her</a> for 7 months, since last time I
<a href="http://journal.richard.levitte.org/entries/finally-meeting/">met her and F</a>... It
has been a while, and I finally got to see <a href="http://journal.richard.levitte.org/people/AsF/"
rel='friend ex-sweetheart met'>her</a> again this evening.</p>
<p>We had a nice talk about our respective lives and quite a bit
about poly issues, and got to an insight about <a href=
"http://journal.richard.levitte.org/entries/poly-myths-2/">depth in poly relationships</a>.</p>
<p>It was nice to see each other again after such long time, and to
share a bit of ourselves with each other, seeing how we have grown
and gone through realisations over time, how some are very similar
and others are different.</p>
Home alone!http://journal.richard.levitte.org/entries/home-alone/2009-03-27T06:03:40Z2009-03-27T06:03:40Z
<p><a href="http://journal.richard.levitte.org/people/ChH/" rel=
'friend ex-sweetheart met'>Charlie</a> was with a girlfriend last
evening, and apparently decided to sleep over at hers, so I got to
spend the evening and the night with just myself and the cats.</p>
<p>I feel marvelous!</p>
<p>It's been a while that I got to spend some time like this, just
being with myself. Obviously, I needed that <img src="http://journal.richard.levitte.org/smileys/smile.png" alt=":-)" /></p>
<p>Later today, I'm gonna meet up with <a href=
"http://sem.hypodea.com/read/user/561">smilla</a> and just spend
the afternoon. We've never taken the opportunity to spend time,
just her and me. Now's the time <img src="http://journal.richard.levitte.org/smileys/smile.png" alt=":-)" /></p>