kerouac says

so, today we were talking about sh@nnon jacks0n's book (such a good book! if you're an academic nerdball!) and someone asked how old she was--towards a legitimate question, about where she was in her career--and i went to little a talk she did last year and remember her being pretty young-looking, so before i could catch myself i said,


oh, she's still hot.


and not a single person heard me Except Of Course The Professor, who, though he has barely cracked a smile the entire time we've been meeting in this class, laughed so hard he spilled his coffee. thank god.

then later someone offered me a bite of a peach, and i said no thanks, peaches are really a one-person fruit--you know, they're so messy and drippy, and you don't really eat a ripe peach so much as you go d0wn on it. and the table of twenty-two year olds looked at me in silence,

so i mimed it. eating the peach hoo-ha.




i need to go to the hardware store and buy a filter.