i was at an improv workshop today and we played this game. we all sat in a circle and one person stood in the middle. that person said, "i like people who own a car," and then everyone who owns a car had to get up and switch seats. the leftover person who didn't a seat in time had to take over the position in the middle ( Read more... )

so i've decided to volunteer for the sexual assault crisis line. tonight is my first shift. here is what happens: people who have been sexually assaulted and are having a hard time dealing with it call the line, and the call gets forwarded to me, and i talk to them and try to get them out of a crisis state ( Read more... )

there is a nice guy who does maintenance for the city, and he stops by the library sometimes. we'll call him mr maintenance. he likes to talk to me, i think, because i am not part of his Real Life, so he tries things out on me to see how they sound. i am his sounding board, or his priest ( Read more... )

it might be okay.

it hurts too much.

can't even deal.

so i thought i had really nice neighbours. the ones in the sketchy pink house on the one side have moved out, and so i'm only left with the ones on the other side. young marrieds, he's a teacher, she's a social work student, and earlier this summer we met over the fence and they borrowed my sprinkler. they never gave it back but i figured i would ( Read more... )

mr man met the-little-red-headed-girl's baby a couple weeks ago. my womb nearly exploded.

i hate that i suddenly realized i have a biological clock.


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i am doing a talk at the library on wednesday night called, "help! my kid's addicted to video games!" essentially, it's a talk aimed at parents who think their kids are frying their brains because they spend too much time playing games. i am going to tell the parents that the kids are in fact learning things, list the types of skills they develop ( Read more... )

my improv company, the no-no's, (i know it's a misplaced apostrophe. i was working the night we got our name), lost our theatre last summer. the night after our last show we found out that the building we performed in, along with lots of other companies, was closing ( Read more... )