dear teeth,
thank you so much for magically straightening on your own. seriously, thank you. from what i hear, braces are a bitch and a half.
love, mari

my biggest goal right now is to run across a frozen lake.

i could really go for some cuddling right now.

my drawings don't suck lately. this is good.
i can't see brains for dinner's last show tonight because i haven't been home for four days. this is bad.

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why don't people dance at shows? i saw i miss being a kid (SO SO SO GOOD) tonight and with the exception of two ladies, everyone was just standing around being hip or cool or whatever. avery and i rocked that place with our smooth moves, no matter what you think. i also saw earnie banks for the first time and they were fantastic. mantis was good ( Read more... )

i was at the intersection of beechnut and south rice today and i saw a cop behind a lexus rx at the left-turn lane across the way. say the cop saw a crime occurring and needed to turn left. once it put its lights on, the lexus would have to turn left to get out of the way, even if the light was red. with these new cameras, a picture would be taken ( Read more... )

my cousin (but in my family, if your cousin is older than you, you refer to them as an aunt/uncle; i always called her aunt janis so whatever) died. well, she killed herself by overdosing on vicodin. she was fucked up, i'm not gonna lie. this family is not lacking in people like that. months later, i'm sitting here listening to my mom talk to her ( Read more... )

i can't believe i was that stupid. everyone said you were bad news. your best friend (my old best friend) said you were a sociopath, and i ignored all negativity because you were so smart! mysterious! interesting ( Read more... )

gathered around the star pizza box at avery's (the usual as of late) tonight, her godmother was giving us the "down low" on college, since she is totally in the know having graduated nearly 40 years ago. i had met the woman 30 minutes prior, and introduced myself as "mari," like i always do, because that is in fact my name. this is how it usually ( Read more... )

have you ever planned your mistakes in advance?

i feel like i'm catching up to myself.

i hate my mother

i asked her if i could go to germany this summer to work on a conservation project and she said no because "it might not be able to happen."

so this is what it comes to: the possibility of failure ruining an amazing opportunity?

your life is a sad one, woman

(i have written in my journal three times today)

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck you irony

my so-called invincible bicycle has a flat. what the shit.

i knew it was a bad idea to get it fixed yards away from where it was destroyed.