"For several years, I had been bored. Not a whining, restless child's boredom (although I was not above that) but a dense, blanketing malaise. It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be discovered ever again. Our society was utterly, ruinously derivative (although the word derivative as a criticism is itself derivative). We were the first ( Read more... )

In Florida with the windows open, there is so much skittering. Lizards and bushes and crickets lightly and constantly skittering ( Read more... )

There are some things in life that nothing but a haircut can do.

I just finished reading How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time and I feel like I relived my adolescence in two days, all the way from naivete to disillusionment, which the magazine's arc through history painfully mirrored ( Read more... )

Jenny said, "i used to be a yoplait addict. but i've switched to the light dannon stuff or weight watchers yogurt ( Read more... )

Let's just say I've been overpowered all winter by a misguided devotion to television, fueled by the DV-R acquired in late fall. In the household, we have recently established a deadline for cable television. This deadline will coincide with the introduction of warm weather. Things are going to change around here, most optimistically my daily ( Read more... )

There is a lot to be said for productivity. Turn over the soil. Plant the seedlings. Cut his hair. Vacuum the car. Wash the dishes. I think I turned into a couch this winter. An ass is not a couch, and a house is not a home ( Read more... )

Some ways I recognize myself to be middle class ( Read more... )

I never write anymore, even when it's all I want to do.

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