after 3 days cooped up in these 2 rooms, i finally returned to work today...for 2 and 1/2 hours. an over excited puppy i jumped at the chance to talk to anyone, peed on the floor, licked their faces...you get the picture ( Read more... )

snow expected on thursday. probably won't be working. i'm a hermit.

aside from my dog, the only one i have spoken to today is the cashier at chucky's. until i go back to work on thursday i don't see this situation changing.

almost hit a deer on the way home from work tonight. a little further down the road was what appeared to be a large carcass. i wouldn't look to confirm. everything makes me want to cry.

today i called my father for his birthday. it was probably the first time i have talked to him in six months. i'm a bad daughter, and lets face it, he is a much worse dad. none the less, he is mine and the only parent i have left. he tells me today that his on-again off-again girlfriend mary is dying of cancer. my heart broke. this man, who ( Read more... )

my absolute favorite new character in my life is tony the bus driver. i love him. he drives the same one mile loop for eight hours a day and manages to make a bus load of disgruntled employees laugh on each and every trip. how? i have asked around, and EVERYONE know tony the bus driver. magic...i think he must dabble in magic. sleepy rambling ( Read more... )

...i saw a hatian woman walk down the hall with a plastic mohegan sun bag balanced precariously on her head...sang the fool on the hill with the chinese american bus driver who drives the same 1 mile circuit for 8 hours a day...had a crumpled $1 bill and some change placed directly in my hand as a gratuity for a $40 check...realized that quitting ( Read more... )

as a girl child i always seemed to find the villain to be the romantic interest in movies and/or cartoons. sting in the bride, bowie in the labyrinth, and that bad guy on voltron (i can't for the life of me remember his name). these are the men i imagined myself loving as an old lady of 21. i still think christopher walken is HOT. am i crazy?

now that thursday has come and gone, i can no longer keep track of the date. it's as if my brain, come august, is so completely tuned in to the 23rd, to surviving that date, the mental count down never ends. once it has passed, however, it's life as normal as i am capable of living it. is this shallow? seriously, what has changed between the ( Read more... )

i forgot to shave one of my legs in the shower. while i feal clean, i don't feel entirely so. by the way, guru is having puppy dreams under the table. LOUD puppy dreams.