it's late and i slept like shit last night, was on the verge of falling asleep all day. +, you know. maybe it'd be a novel idea for me to get a couple winks in now. but i'm pretty wide-eyed and bed-wary right about now, eating ice cream, just finished a book and watched a movie. "one flew over the cuckoo's nest", kids. god. so good. just. ( Read more... )

i turned in an application yesterday that stated my name as "caroline, caroline" rather than "phillips, caroline". the deal is this: i screwed up in ink, meant to use whiteout on the first caroline and write phillips, forgot completely, and handed it in as is. which, really. is a very caroline thing to do. a very caroline, caroline thing to do ( Read more... )

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i drove home tonight in a spaghetti-strap backless light blue $6 prom dress from goodwill. ellen was wearing one just like it when i left her house. we bought them today, brought them back to her place, sewed them up in the places they had come undone, and put them on. we are dressing to match for halloween. we do not know where we are going ( Read more... )

i’m starting to wonder if they took my brain out with my wisdom teeth on monday. because i haven’t felt this out of it in months. maybe it’s the rain + the wind. maybe it’s that whole dark-an-hour-earlier thing starting tonight. maybe it’s that vicodin and anesthesia still wearing off. or maybe it’s all that in addition to spending this past ( Read more... )

this is the conversation i just had with a passing jogger, after king ran to the end of our driveway and barked twice, never leaving the yard or coming within 20 feet of the man ( Read more... )

it's so noisy at the fair
but all your friends are there
and the candy floss you had
and your mother and your dad


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this weekend is the weekend of the litchfield fair. and i have a killer craving for caramel apples and fried dough. i remember being a kid on the school bus, riding by the fairgrounds to and from school every september. and how, for a week before the fair, everyone on the bus (didn’t matter who is was or what they were like) would have their ( Read more... )

no corn no corn no corn no corn.
no work no work no work no work.
no money no money no money no money.

the half-moon was so big in the sky the other night that it looked fake.

and! we're world famous:http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/

okay, kids. pick up a copy of today's sun journal ( Read more... )