January 2011
11 posts
“An irate homeless man had to be escorted out of the ER and then someone was...”
– An email.
Accounting.
Remove three pins from your hair in the morning. No less. You shouldn’t have lost any.
Did you brush your teeth last night, scoop the cat liter, change the water?
Poach an egg in tomato sauce. The potato bread is not quite right. Make a note to ask for Martin’s in the next care package.
Leave the party when “Party Hard” comes on. Talk about princess waving. Say no to...
Vashti Bunyan & Twice As Much - “Coldest...
Well, I'm not sure what any of that's about.
At work today, some folks watched The Killing Field while I started season one of The X-Files. My dad wants me to visit his family in France over the summer. My grandma on Mama Long’s side of the family wants to go back to Cambodia around then, too. Every few weeks, certainly not enough, we have these short, strained conversations because my command of Khmer is poor. I ask her how she is....
I had to look up listless before I felt...
The biggest problem I am having tonight, and usually around this time every night the past few, is trying to get my cat to stop touching the record I am playing whenever I look away or am not directly engaging him.
Right now I am sitting on my couch with him lounging in my lap, Greetings from Asbury Park playing in the kitchen, and my throat hurts, and I am thinking about loneliness and how the...
Elizabeth Bishop, “Conversation”
The tumult in the heart keeps asking questions. And then it stops and undertakes to answer in the same tone of voice. No one could tell the difference. Uninnocent, these conversations start, and then engage the senses, only half-meaning to. And then there is no choice, and then there is no sense; until a name and all its connotation are the same.
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At pasta dinner on the first night of the year, Andy asked everyone their resolutions. My ‘10 was the same one as ‘09—not gonna sweat it—and it worked until autumn came, so a year and a half, but now it’s winter, and I haven’t made any resolutions, so it was stammering out an, “I didn’t make one.”
There’s the same old junk I think...