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mental health day
i called in sick today, after an awful, awful school week. and now i'm trying to figure out exactly what would make my heart heal ( Read more... ) -
true story: trouble in leeds
this is what happened last night, so far as i can remember ( Read more... ) -
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things are settling down in this really sweet way. and i'm listening to old tunes and reading old books and after a week or so am finally remembering who i was before i started this string of awful, make-you-angry jobs. so in case i forget, later on, here's a list of saving graces ( Read more... ) -
more about lucy
the owner's manual for the "new" car (whose name is lucy, btw... ) warns me to take extra precautions around pedestrians, because the car's electric engine is so quiet, people may not hear it approaching. in honor of this warning, i give you:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= -
i bought a prius!
holy crap: i traded in my 1993 corolla for this! (after you click the link, it lists all the prius's available at this dealership... mine is the first one listed, the 2006, so click on that one... that's the exact car i'm getting, it takes a day or two for them to remove it from the website after it's sold). i put the link behind a cut because it's ( Read more... ) -
thoughts from a strange, emotionally exhausting day:
i ended up a pallbearer, and it felt strangely satisfying to have something productive to do at the funeral. caskets are heavier than i'd expect, even with six people helping. the funeral was catholic, with the same prayers and the same statues in the church, and the white-haired priest waving around that little metal ball with the incense burning ( Read more... ) -
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also, i know i'm a little bit obsessed, but this might be the sweetest music video ever.
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swing
the day after one of j's friends is diagnosed with cancer, my phone rings. it's e, "i need to smoke a cigarette-- can you meet me downtown in five?". minutes later we're on a bench in poloski park passing a single cigarette back and forth, soaking up the orange light of the street lights. i'm not gonna lie-- i miss the comraderie of smoking, the ( Read more... ) -
things i try to tell you
a woman i student-taught with back in 2004, lost it one day, yelling at a kid. i felt bad-- i think we all did-- and in the end she wiped her brow with the back of her hand, and told me "it ain't easy being suzy sunshine all the time". and in the moment, i just hated her. but today i was surrounded by a fifth-grade fist-fight, and a bullying ( Read more... ) -
before the rush
i want to break things. and i also want to sing, all the time ( Read more... )