I’ve noticed that someone’s sent me a few more items from my wishlist for my birthday. I couldn’t help but look at the list and see what’s been purchased, and based on that, I’m pretty darn sure who’s sent them, unless it’s someone I don’t know.

So thanks, you!

I woke up at 2:30 in the morning and spent at least the next hour awake. After getting up to pee and check my e-mail, I crawled back into bed and snuggled up against Matt’s warm back. Thoughts fluttered through my head for the next half hour.

I should go back and read all my old journals — everything from high school up through the summer I realized it was okay to be gay — and see what I was like back then. I should do some research.

It’s odd how we project ourselves onto others. You know someone who’s like you in some particular way, and you assume you both got there on similar paths. But it turns out you didn’t. His path was much different from yours. So you’ve dug beneath the earth and seen the underside, the roots, and you see that that particular trait — responsibility, thinking about the rules — is similar in only some ways, not all.

Every person is completely different.

There’s a sweetness in knowledge, in continuing to get to know someone even after more than a year.

I’m thinking of cancelling my newspaper subscription. I’ve barely read the paper since Election Day, except for the Arts section, and it’s just been a waste of money and floor space. (I have piles of newspaper going back several months that I really must recycle.) Unlike some people, it didn’t take me very long to get over the presidential election. By November 6th, I’d moved from depression into apathy. There just wasn’t any point in wallowing. And I never really watch TV news.

It’s interesting how easily you can shut down once you feel powerless again.

Anyway, I wish I could get a discount on my subscription by receiving just the Metro, Arts, Circuits and Science sections every week (in addition to the Saturday and Sunday papers). I can’t live without the daily crossword, and those other sections are the only ones I find interesting lately. In fact, I might just get rid of my weekday subscription and pay 35 bucks to access the crossword online for a year. It would take me about two months to break even.

Remember: if the news gets you down, you can turn it off. You don’t have to be a media slave.