i miss my cat so much. this fall i may plan a mission to rescue her.

raspberry lemonade drips from a cup
and pools on my desk. another july day
spent eleven floors up with stacks of
paper and rows of law books. my bicycle
stands abandoned in a far off corner.
she does not understand why she sits
in an office corner for nine hours.
was she not made to be free, flying
down the streets beneath the trees?

red and white skirt, tank top and my striped ( Read more... )

i am so tired and i overslept this morning. i finally re-installed the lj-client on my work computer. the tech guy didn't want anyone to but one of the other computers in the office has it so i said why not. so yeah maybe this page will be filled with more of my rambling but i doubt because i often hate posting to lj ( Read more... )

an art show featuring the lovely Amy Hemmens is happening this saturday evening at 1020 J street in sacramento. i just discovered that it was happening this morning. to think that if i hadn't gone into the cafe to buy a scone i would have never known. i'm very excited, it's been a year since i was able to see Amy's paintings and i was beginning to ( Read more... )

falling asleep at work because i stayed up into the night watching "mulholland dr." with my girl. so then of course we couldn't sleep because we were weirded out and wide awake listening to the noises outside. we talked about other strange things and scared each other more but then exhaustion took over, making us fall asleep.

dead flower petals
with ink messages inscribed
across their crinkly skin
blow away into the wind
carry wishes to the end

my once beautiful apartment looks like a disaster area and it makes my head feel like a whirlwind. i wish i were mary poppins so i could snap my fingers and watch everything fly into place.

i am eating tasty miso soup and steamed rice from Megami around the corner. today is nice because i have been sent to the law office building to review files. that building is one of my favorite downtown. the doors are old style with cross hatched windows that i can't see through. the stairways have art-deco curving metal handrails. on the fourth ( Read more... )

italian soda is flat. did they put the raspberry syrup in ice water ( Read more... )