No matter how many times she tells you "I would never do that to you," if she does it to others, she'll do it to you.

And you can't break your code of silence to explain how she brought it all on herself.

It is when your code of silence spills out onto the innocent ... it's when he thinks you don't trust him ... that's when it hurts the most.

I write and I write and I write ... it's all about houses from my childhood ... houses that hold an emotional deathgrip on me ... houses haunted by love and loss, secrets and treasures, life and death.

I'm obssessed with the houses of my earliest memories. I write and I write and I write ... and delete, delete, delete.

Thanks to Peter for telling me that Bob Dylan is playing in the DC area April 4/5. Yay!!

( my miniature musical history )

... I remember when I advised the yearbook how ruthless we were in giving failing grades to those who couldn't meet their deadlines. Why? Because if you don't do the work you are responsible for, someone else is going to have to do it. It's not like a math homework assignment that just doesn't get done. It's a yearbook deadline that will get met, ( Read more... )

fish or cut bait. shit or get off the pot.

it takes two to tango, but you can dance alone ( Read more... )

Today, one of my coworkers asked me if I had talked to Kevin recently. And I'm trying and trying to figure out how on earth she knows Kevin, or, more importantly, knows that I know Kevin. And so I tell her no. But that one of our mutual friends (Kevin's and mine) reported to me that he knows I'm in town, knows that I have been in town for a year ( Read more... )

Is it just mine, or do all cats cough hairballs when they eat too fast?

In a last ditch effort to have my cake and eat it too, I asked the big whigs today if I could have three months off ... starting ... basically now. Now THEY want 24 hours to decide.

But they didn't say no.

I was laughing with a coworker today about how these floors are so thin that you can hear almost everything through them. I was warning him to be careful what he says when he's in either of the front conference rooms. Just now, not even an hour later, the president of the company sits down next door to me in my boss's cube. He's on the phone ( Read more... )

The stepboards or running boards or whatever you call them literally rusted right off my car. One of them rusted off the back side first, and so I bunjeed it together and that held for awhile. (What duct tape and a bunjee cord cannot do, I have not discovered.) Eventually I walked out and just pulled it off ... like breaking off a piece of a ( Read more... )

Some things that say "dry clean only" on them really mean "dry clean only." Others, you can get away with a gentle cycle laundry and a low heat drying, right? Like rayon slacks ( Read more... )