lightness of being

staying with godfrey in rochester, NY.

i expected this town to be tiny. Godfrey is a big liar. it is huge. and, apparently, he is taking me to gay bar this evening. he hates dancing but knows that I like it. but why he is taking me to a gay bar I don't know.

why won't people accept that I am straight?

finally finished the brief history of everything. Science is great, but is damn scary. temperature changes of 15 degrees on average in 20 years (actually happened in the past). we would we screwed. yellowstone is a giant underground volcano, which is definitely shifting (a lake was empties recently). equally screwed.

there is also some thought that the gulf stream will be affected by global warming such that northern europe would experience localised cooling. a colder england would be completely impossible.

i want to be friends with an intelligent bird. you know how you get definite feelings of perspective on life when you go somewhere high, because suddenly you can see how big the world is and how little you are. Well, we only get brief glimpses of that, but birds have it all the time. I bet an intelligent bird would be totally resonable and cool to chat with.