So, trying to get myself back into a habit of writing so I can finish any number of projects and also feel like my degree wasn't just me putting off the inevitable.
Starting by finishing the partially-throughs... maybe?

(i guess i should very soon start thinking about how to send stuff Out There for publication. playing that whole find-o deal. or, if not that, then being somehow more dedicated to working on a longer piece, with it in my mind anew that it's not just for me and those close. something else. must interrogate resistance i guess, or maybe just shove it aside.)

Anyhow, this story is one I imagine verbally introducing somehow, maybe because I originally read a short version of it at Powells this summer; I reckon I built it partially around a game for you, the audience (heh), in person. Because it has to do with those party games one plays with folks in order to mysteriously determine important aspects of our lives, humorously and without the wiles of consciousness getting in the way. a/la "What's your favorite animal/color and what do you think about water?" With the answers metaphorically standing in for aspiration/self-image and feelings about sex.

Well, this game involves ranking five animals, the ranker choosing the criteria by which to rank them. The characters: dog, lion, horse, sheep, pig.

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Go ahead. Rank them.

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Now that you've done that, I will reveal that your ranking of these animals tells us about your priorities in life. (#1 = highest priority, and so forth)

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My personal irony was that I ranked them by the degree to which they amused me, most amusement being #1. I love that my priorities are established by amusement. That told me more than anything.

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Okay, now I'm off to finish the mystery novel I'm reading. I need to finish it before I can progress past chapter 2 of Descartes Error, not that I need bribery, but that I am highly distractable. Oh, and doing laundry tomorrow & hopefully cooking food for at least one of my splendid friends...