May. 4th, 2002

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Stiff, sore, and tired. After all the gardening yesterday, I went to a meeting of the Pleasure Activism and Polyamory reading group--the reading for the evening was from Peter McWilliams's book Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do", the chapter on Violations of Marriage. We talked about that for a while, specifically about why it is that people don't engage in pleasure activism even at the very individual level of increasing intimacy with strangers (ie looking in people's eyes when you meet them, starting conversations about things that matter rather than the weather, and so on).

Pam was late and missed the whole meeting, but we went to Attitudes for a drink and enjoyed ourselves talking and watching people. It was karaoke night, and some of the singers were very very good. There was a cute couple just getting to know each other and it was fun to watch the flirtation and infatuation developing. The younger girl's ex-boyfriend was there with them just glowing in their radiance. He told us he had dated her for seven years and then realized he was gay. Then there was a woman who I kept watching with a kind of morbid fascination. She was all over some guy, biting his ear and groping his butt and on and on. I found her, and her behavior, rather repulsive. But maybe he liked it.
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Wow. I don't know what got into me, but I've been really ambitious this weekend with gardening. I got up this morning and cleaned up the debris from yesterday before going to the Great Perennial Divide plant sale with [livejournal.com profile] indigobynight and her daughter. I bought a few shade-loving plants, and then we went to the Missouri Botanical Garden for lunch. They were having an "English Country Faire" today, with Maypole and Morris dancing and people in costume. We wandered around the garden a while, watched the dancing, and so on.

Then I left to go home, but happened to pass Gringo Jones on the way, so I stopped in. I'm looking for some statuary for the front of my house: there used to be lions there, but the lady we bought the house from took them with her. Ever since, the front has been oddly bare. I would like to have griffins, and Gringo Jones turned out to have some. I have to find out whether they'll fit on the pillars, but if they do, I'm buying them.

After that, I stopped at Home Depot and bought yet more plants. Some purple pansies and yellow marigolds that Rosa and I will plant tomorrow, and a rose to replace the one I planted earlier this year which I thought was dead. When I went to dig it up, though, it was sprouting tiny shoots, so I just planted the new one next to it.

I came home around 5:30, and planted all my new purchases except for the flowers. I was tired, but I made myself mow the back yard, too.

More gardening tomorrow. Before I fetch Rosa from her daddy's, I'll finish mowing the lawn, and then after she gets here I want to plant the flowers with her. I think she'll like that, since they're already blooming and pretty.

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