December92001

Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat...which probably isn't good for them because I think they're fattening them up for eating. But I don't eat duck anyway, so let my goose be skinny so she can run around with those sexy ganders all winder long while you're eating her friends.

Mmm...that get you in the holiday season, doesn't it?

I pierced my cartilage on Friday night.

I borrowed Christine's car, drove to the mall (How I missed driving!) and walked right into Claire's and went up to the counter and pointed to my ear and said "Hole now, please"

For those of you who know how I am (and I'm assuming you all do because otherwise, why would you be reading this) I tend to think things through. Especially things like another hole in my head! And I actually did give this some thought before. When Steve got his nipples pierced back in June, I was thinking "Maybe I should get my cartilage done" however he said I should get my nipples done and we could be a matching couple. Perhaps that's why things only lasted four months with him! ;-)

Anyway, the point I was trying to make was that I was thinking of doing this a while ago, but then never really acted on it until Friday. I just needed a change.

I didn't even realize that she had pierced my ear until she handed me the back of the earring and told me to put it on.

"That's it? It's over already?"

I was expecting to feel some pain, and actually I was kind of hoping for a little.

Maybe it's just the fact that I've been writing a play analyisis all morning, but I realize now that getting this piercing was a partly subliminal symbolic gesture.

I was a little down Sunday and Monday of last week, but by the time Friday came, I was back into the swing of things and rolling with the punches like usual.

I'm a tough kid. And while a bit of pain may get me down for a few days, I am definitely never out.

Things change, it's part of life, and you've gotta change with with the times. Thus, my way of changing was putting a piece of sharpened metal through part of my head.

I love it!