Electricity! Running water! Such novelties.

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This song just seems so much more profound when you've had it stuck in your head for a week. Yes. It really does.

I don't want to say anything anymore.

I'm probably the only one from here to Hammond who isn't asleep -- and God, I would that it weren't so, and I was sleeping, too ( Read more... )

A few days ago I realized that I just wanted to tell myself to shut up. So of course I did, because I am a pretentious, posturing liar who takes herself much too seriously and is really getting on her own nerves! Yes. That's exactly it ( Read more... )

New house. New town. New address. New phone number. New neighbors. New reasons to be paranoid.

Am going out for groceries tomorrow. There will be soda.

Recently I was struck by the sudden urge to curl my hair, and today happened to be the day I got the pins to do it. So you see, it's not me trying to reaffirm life or anything like that. I just have my hair pinned up, and it looks cute, in a very thirties/Myrna Loy-ish sort of way. My late grandmother always wanted me to bob and curl my hair like ( Read more... )

I was never Holly Golightly.

There are no words.

Further examination has confirmed that my late grandmother did, in her youth, bear a striking resemblance to Carmen Miranda.

Fortunately, she wasn't into fruit.

This time last year I was in a less-than-stellar mood ( Read more... )