Life is full of tough choices between less-than-perfect alternatives.

She gave in to a hankering for a cup of tea even though she knew that the idea of a cup of tea-sitting still, calmly sipping-was more appealing than actually sitting still and trying to calmly sip.

you know we've all sinned a lot against science
so we really ought to be as available as an apple
on a bough
pleasant thought fresh air free love cross-pollenization

oh oh god how I'd love to dream let alone sleep

I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.

I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.