January 2010
13 posts
Light snow shower
The sky is spitting snow at a slow, relentless rate, and the wind keeps shifting. Walking north four blocks, snow hits me in the face. Turning west, it hits my side. South, and in the face again. East, my back. It’s the kind of snow that requires a plastic hamster ball to keep dry. Unfortunately, I don’t have one, or a working umbrella of any kind.
Mulan
Someone, a neighbor or one of their friends, has puked on the front step and into the hallway entrance either last night or this morning. At 8:15am on a Friday morning, my dog tried to clean it up with his mouth. Disgust diptych.
It hasn’t been that long since I’ve been so drunk as to have such an event be a possibility. But the only time that I puked on steps is now 11 years ago,...
Work Holiday
My boss forgot it was a holiday and scheduled a meeting. Waking up, I went about my routine as usual. The silence of my roommates and their normal morning routines was oppressive. Walking the dog, I missed my familiar markers of time, especially the woman who wears the same jacket and uggs everyday who walks down the street between 8:10-8:16AM. The commute was a breeze. I got seats on both my...
tesslynch:
latyrx — lady don’t tek no
Compounding Factors
Travel, jet lag, allergies, S.A.D., contact with sick people = Common cold
Dead mouse, broken heater, gasoline smell, mail merge = Taking a long lunch
Historical Revisionism
“… the reinterpretation of orthodox views on evidence, motivations, and decision-making processes surrounding a historical event.”
The last two times I have practiced it:
Grad school application personal statement
A relationship