since i started caring.

1/23/08 7:44 PM

Things I have noticed since I started caring about other living things.

1. upon dismounting my bicycle on Lincoln road in Miami beach wearing the block’s only 1970s inspired fashion that isn’t from this season’s runway shows, a man pointed at me and pointed at my mess of shower-wet hair and said to his friend, “now there’s a beautiful woman.” And as I looked down at my long-since painted red toenails and my pant legs rolled up to my knees, I believed him.

2. I am compiling a list of songs I would like to do my own versions to; including…

a. Close to you, The Carpenters
b. the great beyond, R.E.M.
c. no rain, blind melon
d. at last
e. turn, turn, turn
f. man on the moon, R.E.M.

3. I am listening to the U.K.’s very own pop anti-princess lily allen’s hit single on repeat until I learn all of the parts where she speaks very quickly in british slang.

4. my cat feels softer and cuts me less with her toenails.

5. a homeless man, after observing that my pant leg was treacherously pinned in between the greasy chain and chain guard of my bicycle (rendering me motionless), pushed himself up off his seat in the gas station doorway and proceeded to lift up the back end of my bike, spin the wheel, and successfully free me from myself. only later did I realize that I didn’t even have enough change to buy AIR from the AIR machine to fill my tires.