3/31: G. wakes up in the night saying, "Chocolate cake."
4/1: Growing up, my mom used to make us prank lunches to take to school. Raw potato slices in our sandwiches was one. Napkin sandwiches was another.
4/2: My dad reports that in Orlando, more and more businesses are closing up. A new one each day, it seems like, he says. It's eerie. Like he's living somewhere else.
4/3: Being a night owl is considered a sleep disorder. It means your circadian rhythms don't work like everybody else's.
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3/30: Week one of the quarter seems a little early to contemplate failing classes.
ReplyDelete3/31: Driving home with groceries and gasoline we pass a bus-stop sequined with afternoon rain, and from the relative safety of 28 miles per hour (due south) we examine the strangers lined up on the sidewalk. Our study is of purely academic interest and the Bellingham data support our original theory. Consensus: some people should not go outdoors.
4/1: Through the early haze of rain I find a hemisphere of orange peels unrolled like so much neon tape along the ground--perhaps the breakfast of a lucky pirate.
4/2: Grey sky and grey trees from here to the horizon, and the automobiles in the city below seem to drift like mirages on unknown trajectories—all movement and smoke like a steam locomotive about to depart from its tracks.
4/3: If I breathe through my mouth and pretend not to notice the smell it will lessen the menace of seventy people confined to this windowless room.
3/31: Converse never quite go out of style. The plastic soles and metal rings tell the observer that the wearer cares about fashion, but likes to keep it casual. The impractical beauty of these tennis shoes proclaims their owner’s uniqueness.
ReplyDelete4/1: An old, white house by the side of a busy road displays a weathered sign, hand-painted. It tells me over four thousand American soldiers have died in Iraq.
4/2: Impaled on the branches of a naked winter tree, a kite flutters in the wind. Its dirty and bleached colors are tatters of its former self. The wind pushes at the kite, coaxing it to come and play.
4/3: Delicate daffodil cups and clouds of yellow forsythias are finally blooming. Soon a multitude of birds, tulips, and puffy cumulus sailing on blue sky will follow. Spring at last.
4/4: My roommate opens the fridge door and a yellow plastic ball tumbles out. “There’s a lemon on the floor,” she says, “and it’s not even real!”
Week 1:
ReplyDelete3/31: The clock in my last class of the day is twenty-something minutes faster than the accurate clock in the hall. On another note, my best friend booked our tickets yesterday and wrote our names wrong. In late August I’ll be flying to Dublin as Lindell Jaima. (Hopefully I’ll make it through customs).
4/1: The first thing I hear in the morning is the TV telling me to count how many calories I put in my mouth.
4/2: The three plants in my apartment look slightly wilted (even though I just watered them). All the leaves/stems on the lily are straining toward the window. Poor thing needs more sun.
4/3: I opened my cupboard to look for cookie ingredients and was confronted by two 7 inch long slightly fuzzy purple and white sprouts. It’s probably time to get rid of that potato. (I put it on the windowsill to see how tall they get).
4/4: My sister and I have eaten almost a whole plate of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.
3/31-Finally some sun. I'm sick of this weather already. I just got back from CA where it's 80.
ReplyDelete4/1- Looking at the cut on my hand from my new puppy, he's so needy, I swear to god I'm never having children.
4/2-Yay the bus, I'm ready to get the hell out of here. I wish I could get back into school, it's been like this the whole school year.
4/3- Working till 10pm today. Customer at work showed me where he got tazed, this town in getting weirder everyday.
4/4- Worked the same today, there's really nothing to observe except for baby vomit in the girl's bathroom.
3/31 - McKinley was also assassinated.
ReplyDelete4/1 - All of the cops are at the Chevron.
4/2 - There are just so many noodles.
4/3 - That dog should not be there.
4/4 - The sun is surprising, but I’ll take it.
4/5 - This line is moving so slowly.
3/31- Even a jackpot winner loves a free drink. It satisfies that dressed up girl lonesome in us all.
ReplyDelete4/1- People do shitty things to each other. I've never much liked the phrase, "They're just jealous." Sometimes it's true, but mostly it's just said so you can have more of a reason to believe in the motivation of their shittiness.
4/2-Greek lady with white hair has stained the whole front of her head in yellow pollen.
4/3-Boyfriend farts by bushes after eating Olive Garden, blames it on animal in bushes.
4/4- Mother of friend hands tightly wrapped foil packages of chocolate chip banana bread into my palms, discreetly. It feels like a drug deal. It is.
4/5- Small dog wrapped within a baby stroller, walked by a man and a woman, no baby in sight. Absolutely no baby in sight.
4/1: The man’s face was a receptive red, flush with age spots and melancholy. The little wrinkles were as faint as delicate hair fractures splitting from the wells around his eyes, rippling like innumerable scars that feathered out into the pinkish flesh. As accouterments to his plaid button-down was a solitary parejo cigar and two silver fountain pens.
ReplyDelete4/2: The girl’s pupils would twitch and shift, continually glancing to the floor. Subtly I angled my own body to capture the pair of green irises which seemed so intent on evading my own and each time with the same result. Sometimes she would look up while at others she might look side-to-side, up-or-down or simply right through me, focusing on a neutral spot and burning a hole through it with her slippery gaze. It was as if our eyes had been magnetized, polar opposites destined never to comfortably share the same space at once.
4/3: A guy keeps bumping people in the arms, sitting in a crammed room. He pushes out, very slightly each time, further and further, annexing more space as he goes. The two persons at either side of him push back and a battle of will power ensues, their elbows competing for freedom.
4/4: Amid a raucous crowd sits a stoic young man, maybe early to mid twenties. He has every reason to be happy and yet he swirls his drink ponderously in one hand while keeping the other firmly gripped against the table upon which he leans.
4/5: A girl crawls over her boyfriend like a pair of crabs struggling in the surf while their friends attempt to look on, talking about musicals louder and louder to drown out the noise of the sparring couple on the floor.
3/31-first day of class and already overwhelmed, don't teachers remember that we have other classes other than their own?
ReplyDelete4/1-heater is fixed by maintnece guy but the coldness between us all still lingers.
4/2-feel better about classes, maybe I will survive...
4/3-the older british man, in my scottish country dance class, is hilarous and should not be hushed by the not as old british women who can't even teach class.
4/4-the market is overwhelming, to many people and to many things to look at, makes me feel anxious
4/5-the kids, at the church i work at, anounce that they do not like the new pastor. my co-worker says thats not a very nice thing to say. (but we don't care for him either)
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ReplyDeleteMichael B. I deleted my original because of extra lines that weren't supposed to be there.
ReplyDelete3/31 - I'm running late for work, stuck at the light on meridian like always.
4/1 - Today I was waiting for my girlfriend outside Haggen and I saw someone with a license plate that read "MY HERO".
4/2 - Sleeping during the middle of the day is so refreshing.
4/3 - I just gave my girlfriend the keys to my truck so she could goto work for a movie preview that she thinks will be chaotic.
4/4 - So apparently a friend of my girlfriend's just got a wedding dress, but she won't show me or tell me details because she likes it.
4/5 - Our shelves are empty and the people coming into the stores dwindle. How much should I say versus how much I know.
3/31 - So after I had this cold/flu crud for about two weeks, my roommate remained absolutely healthy. After 2 hours or so with her sick sister, she gets the crud, too. Lovely.
ReplyDelete4/1 - *sigh* Freshmen.
4/2 - Segues are weird.
4/3 - My eye has been twitching and being strange all day - first it was leaking profusely and now the wacky twitching. Funky.
4/4 - Some people are just not conscious of how to act around dogs that aren't friendly and have territorial issues.
4/5 - It's amazing how many movies you can watch in a row when you have no obligations, laundry to do, and newly-acquired DirecTV.
3/31: I pretend I live in the trees, because when I look out my window (out, now down from), all I see is trees.
ReplyDelete4/01: My mother makes me not want to be a mother.
4/02: As soon as a movie does a wide-angled shot of lovely scenery, I have to finish it. I want to see if they show the same view again.
4/03: I took a nap and when I woke up, my skin was covered in creases and lines. I need to drink more water.
4/04: I wish there was a poetic way to tell people that I show rabbits.
4/05: "You've forgotten where you came from. Come back."
4/06: In my beat-up, crunched and crumbled, worn-down Buick, I made my way back to Bellingham. My mother says I am running away from her.
3/31 – Sometimes people spend so much time looking at themselves—narcissistically or in a low-self esteem sort of way--that they never see anyone else.
ReplyDelete4/1 – Old movies are reputed to be boring, but sometimes they're great. Watch the Thin Man!
4/2 - Sometimes I think I'm acting really strangely the first week of classes--like I talk too much, just to be comfortable, when I should sit and watch.
4/3 - My class was canceled and I wasn't on the schedule at work--a year ago, I would have started drinking around four, but today I waited till ten.
4/4 - It's hard when you thrive on openness but get it thrown back in your face. My friend called me later and apologized.
4/5 - KUGS is great, even if you only catch bits in your car.
4/6 - Sex lasts forever when you're on anti-depressants. This can be good or bad... like everything else.
- Nat
3/31 I don't feel that those two should be tying the knot...it's too soon.
ReplyDelete4/1 My car runs better with a fresh oil change and a wash.
4/2 To me Labs make the cutest puppies...I want one
4/3 Credit cards are my worst nightmare...and debt is the Everest that I will eventually climb and get over.
4/4 I only want ice cream and McDonalds when I am drunk, or have been drinking
4/5 Throwing out your back is by far the worst pain I have yet to experience.
4/6 It is amazing how much you get done when you are stuck in bed.
4/7 The sun comes out and warms our skin and it is the first time I am able to hear birds sing and chirp at 4:30am
3/31: A young man got on the bus with a harmonica in his mouth so he played a tune to his inhaling and exhaling
ReplyDelete4/1: There is a beautiful tree behind Miller hall that stands in its own flower bed along with a bush. There are cigarette butts all over the ground in front of it.
4/2: Young kids walk hand in hand with each other in Viking Union.
4/3: Poeple are rowing a raft around the fountain in Red Square. I don't know why and I didn't have time to figure it out.
4/4: I went to Glow night club for the first time, it is definfitly not my scene.
4/5: At Clayton Beach the tide is in so there isn't alot of beach. I had my dog off leash and he bothered some people, running around playing with their daughter. They told me to put my fucking dog on a fucking leash and get the fuck out of here. Nice people, real nice.
3/31: Cat scratch disease is a real disease WTF
ReplyDelete4/1: What is wrong with a refrigerator when it starts to bark?
4/2: There's a new video game called,"Six Days in Fallujah." Do you get to use white phosphorous on Iraqi civilians? Is there an Abu Ghraib level? If you don't kill all of the insurgents, will they murder private contractors and drag their corpses through the streets while you watch?
4/3: Our biggest competition is owned by a family that pretends not to be rich in front of their employees, too. Not very convincingly, though. They have a Mercedes in the parking lot whose only purpose is to provide cover from the rain while the boss smokes his cigarettes.
3/31-I still occasionally think I should've been a nurse or an accountant or something. Chasing what you love doesn't always pay the bills.
ReplyDelete4/1-For once I was on it. Nobody got me good today.
4/2-I have officially drank so much diet pepsi I think I am coated in aluminum. What is this stuff?
4/3-A man tries to do a u-turn and gets his long car stuck for a while so he ca't go backward and he can't go forward.
4/4-Oh my goodness, I haven't been out for a night on the town in so long. Over the years people just drift away from Bellingham, but here I still sit, strangely somewhat alone.