Just woke up from really horrible dream. Have to write it down before I forget it. Damn. Forgot it already while I was writing that ( Read more... )

I instantly regretted my comeback
but that's the thing about unkind words:
You can try to undo the damage, but
(a) it's hard when you're all coffee-ed up, and
(b) you can't take it back, ever.

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I lay awake for what seemed like hours. Lately it seemed that my body was waiting all the time. When it started to rain Friday morning, I was glad. You've got to feel sorry for any weatherman in the Northwest. I think they all ought to give it up and just simply say, Well, gang, today we're going to have weather. The entire day I forced myself not ( Read more... )

This whole entire week so far I have felt odd, as if I was suddenly left holding a bedroom slipper or a cantaloupe or some other strange thing in the middle of school. I suddenly can't stand anyone or anything without Nick around. I have never felt this pathetic in my entire life. Not even the time in 4th grade when I cut my hair just because ( Read more... )

Wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmellow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another ( Read more... )