oct 12 2021 - inefficient conversion
ugh, hello there!! <3
📸 - selfie of me in yellow- and white-striped dress, pink helmet, a couple bridges, almost sunset blue sky [10-11-21]
happy libra szn + mercury retrograde in libra + last wk's new moon!
[redacted - smol, aimless teardown of libras, like it was correct but jk jk i love y'all and also,]
a dear libra happened to pass thru town last week and i got to see him and remember what it's like to embark on an evening together and i'm so glad I wrote the rest of this slushee but didn't send it til now to add this note: you libras are such funny people, the ways pisces and libras energies sometimes align is so funny tbh!!
sending this instead as the merc rx ends (today 10-18-21)
some sweet merc rx in libra cliché coincidences
the things that happened a year ago that are coming full circle
lots of spontaneous music timing -- songs in my earphones ending at the moment in the day when I, etc. etc.
catching up with dear friends after unintended absences, thinking of people then getting emails from them
getting emails about some internet glitches getting fixed!!! thru no extra labor of my own!!
those books I just started reading that are mirroring and mocking my life from such specific vantage points LOL, DM for more!
provoked new neck strain ln!! full circle 🥲
renewed one of my library cards i.e. yes, somehow i’m reading again bless
— benedict nguyễn blegh 😪 (they/them) (@xbennyboo) October 14, 2021
on oct 11, i remembered i was due for a slushee as i was biking (see above and below) to a friend's birthday party up a river and through a park. on the 5-mile trek, i found a new rhythm, new speeds I hadn't yet felt. part way up the river, i stopped to look around saw the little moon half coming back again
📸 - opposite view of selfie above: almost sunset blue sky with bike path, river and skyline of somewhere Lenape NYC iykyk [10-11-21]
my bike's gears have been busted for a few months now so there's not so much shifting as much slight striations in the texture of relatively consistent strolling. i go as fast as my legs pushing the pedals will allow the vehicle to travel. when going downhill is the same speed as going on even ground.... daddy buy me a new bike plz xoxo
now that I've tried c*ti bike's e-bikes, the physical exertion that my actual bike's too small frame requires of me... yawns in ~prefers other modes of movement lately plz~
but last week, the water was gorgeous. the sky was too. i wasn't too taken in by my tired legs. however many minutes my bike delayed trip, I was still gonna be elegantly late and felt so pleasantly at ease with the humorously inefficient conversion of kinetic energy happening beneath my butt
taking a slightly different path home, I veered away from the river and my GPS cut out but I had already memorized the shape of the curve i'd cut thru the park. but the shape and it's real-life scale are different and I missed the path and instead lugged my bike up many stairs of pedestrian footpath in the dark. so infallible was my sense of NYC direction (I'm only slightly exaggerating) that while lost, I also totally knew where I was
when I had my bike light on and phone flash light at full blast but still couldn't see more than 5 yards in front of me... ooops, yes I did get home safe and noooo, I will not do that again !!
also, my bod made it thru that okay but also, has been so wrecked this past week. over the wknd, confirmed/commiserated that fellow pals' bods are also taking a pummeling... unfortunate merc rx alignment !
scorpio szn so soon!!! last week's first quarter moon was in Capricorn, but otherwise, let's move on, no?
in response to the last slushee, a dear reader recalled the artist Ana Mendieta - click thru the video archive and guess why lmao
♡ yours,
benedict
PS. will be emailing a personal news / #freelanceflailing / career update soon, not thru slushee - if you're on here but we haven't ~emailed~ and wld like to receive, plz write xoxo