4/4: Mutant Berry Slurpee doesn't sound good.
4/5: A guy outside Wasabe Sushi hocked a lougie on the window as we left. A few minutes later, we heard him do it again. And again. We turned around, watched him keep doing this all the way down the block.
4/6: It's like a street party here when the sun comes out. People swim in the lake, even though it's too cold. The air is filled with footballs and volleyballs and soccer balls. The children run deliriously around the playground.
4/7: A guy on Holly wore shorts and a trenchcoat.
4/8: G. and I run up and down the hotel hallways in our socks.
4/9: I come home to find the aloe in pieces on the floor. This aloe has been with me for a long time. I called it Grandma because it produced so many aloe babies, who had more babies, and I ended up with dozens of mini-aloe plants. I couldn't give the things away. But I was always kind of proud of Grandma. So when she got thrown in the trash today, I was sad.
4/10: Along the road, someone has lined up eight grocery carts. They stand there like tourists, unsure where to go next.
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4/7 On the bus again, I know I've already posted about this but maybe you guys don't know the bliss of catching the express on a long day.
ReplyDelete4/8 Watching real housewives of NYC, I don't know why. It's addicting. These women must piss money.
4/9 My cousin is sixteen and into skinny jeans- I'm not willing to tell him they're a DISTRACTION and he needs to wear regular ones.
4/10 Oh delicious Coors light with lemon, yeah I know its a weird combo but I'll take anything after the crazy rush at Safeway today. That's the problem with living in a fairly religous town, they remembered Easter and I bared the brunt of it.
4/4: I ponder the contemporary meaning of "insanity" as man on the sidewalk bends over laughing at something the cell phone has told him.
ReplyDelete4/5: At the used bookstore we wander like lost bricklayers through the quarries and stacks, perusing all the subject matter we have never seen and never cared to read. Near the back we discover an art book filled with black-and-white photographs of drag queens and naked transsexuals.
4/6: All day the university grounds and the long brick walkways are cluttered with students in flip-flops and sunglasses who lounge like Caribbean vacationers, drawn to the novelty of sunshine.
4/7: From the relative solitude of a second-story balcony I overlook the little, listless clots of teenagers and college Frisbee players in the park and consider the finer points of overpopulation.
4/8: In lieu of the usual botany lecture our professor reads a choose-your-own-adventure story featuring an eight-foot-tall, beneficent, and levitating yeti.
4/9: The woman behind me is singing one of those high-pitched and stereotypical radio songs and I catch just enough of the lyrics to know that I’ve never heard it before.
4/10: All afternoon we sketch conifers and seeds to the smell of burning marijuana.
4/5: Went to dinner with my brother and sister-in-law and loved the live Irish music playing near us. I wish I could play the violin.
ReplyDelete4/6: The rec center is always better when I am with my workout friend. Otherwise it's disturbing.
4/7: Sun seems to make everyone happy and allows me to wear my comfy flip flops again.
4/8: The headache behind my left eye is so painful i feel the need to either throw up or go to bed... but I still have homework.
4/9: I lost my key today to my gym locker. The lock was locked on my locker and my wallet was inside. After walking around many many times, i gave up hope and started to walk out of the locker room only to find the key on the floor where I had already walked by four times. I don't understand a lot of things.
4/10: After spending at least five hours at a track meet watching and waiting for my friend to throw...I have remembered how much I dislike track.
4/11: It's my birthday today and my mom calls me in the morning to tell me about the day I was born. I want to be as good to my kids as she is to us.
4/12: One of my roomates needs to have men like her and has to always be noticed. That same roomate told me she couldn't stand another one of our roomates. Yet now she is talking to him in the living room about sex and i'm pretty sure she wants to have sex with him. She also told him that she likes talking to him. Funny how people act differently around other people...i have lost all respect.
4/5/09
ReplyDeleteShattered sea shells—blue and purple and white with ridges; barnacle encrusted rocks; and slug-slime green kelp litter the beach. Warm air, bright sun, and cold water are a typical snapshot of Washington’s coast. I can see where the water is eating away at the clay and limestone cliffs. Trees pose ready to topple at the top of the eroding face.
4/6/09
A group of girls walk past an avid reader sunning on the beach. “He recognized me and was like, ‘You’re the girl who has a seizure and passed out at the basketball game,’” said the girl with a pony tail. She laughed self-consciously.
4/7/09
The professor showed the class a ten minute clip of a documentary on Hiroshima. The film was grainy and sounded tinny. The skeletons were everywhere, blackened skulls screaming silent in the ashes. Pointless tragedy radiated off the screen into their eyes, and the class sat in silence with held breath.
4/8/09
Every second and a half the bus’s display changed: Limited Stops became the destination and transformed again. Every time the letters and numbers changed it sounded like a fish gently scraping its scales on the plastic.
4/9/09
Teens fish off the dock at Silver Lake, Everett. The only thing they will catch is dark fish covered in slime and litter.
4/10/09
In Snohomish, a woman in a bunny suit holds her rabbit’s head in her lap. She slouches, exhausted, against a brick wall.
4/11/09
It’s raining in Paris. L. sends me a picture of the Eiffel Tower. It’s tip looks like a dream, misted in fog.
4/12/09
On Easter Sunday, a congregations doubles. A miracle of guilt, or a product of emptiness.
4/6 - A little early to work, checking news on the bankruptcy proceedings.
ReplyDelete4/7 - Almost late to work, crazy meridian.
4/8 - Running for 45 minutes and then trying to navigate a stairwell is quite dangerous.
4/9 - Found out the place where I work was being liquidated. Work out a crazy deal for a shotgun. (No nothing crazy)
4/10 - I'm waiting for work to call because I said I might go in, but in reality I don't so I don't call (and don't get called).
4/11 - I was driving home when some guy on the on-ramp drove on the shoulder next to me until I slowed down for an exit and then he cut me off.
4/12 - Today when I opened my job, I saw an old woman put a bag of candy in her pocket.
4/6: The square is bright, painful to look at almost. The contrast to the gloomy winter days seems almost disruptive, arresting, smothering. Hundreds pack the bricks and grass like tropical lizards basking in the noon rays, stewing in bikini tops and sun tan lotion.
ReplyDelete4/7: It’s a great to have peace of mind minus the isolation. When you sit alone blissfully enjoying the silence of your own thoughts and a sharp gust tugging against your pants, you can’t help but feel slightly something terrible too. But crowds are too smothering. That feeling of too many voices occupying too little space sucking up too many thoughts is enough to drive you out of your mind. But God do you feel alive at the same time. Mix the two and you’ve got something. What better place to be than a muted mob?
4/8: In a crowded lounge you make your way past islands of people hustling their lunches down with fruit juice and club sandwiches. It’s wall-to-wall conversations and hard not to butt in on the two girls next to you switching off an a personality questionnaire.
4/9: A guy walks into the bathroom and places both hands on his hips triumphantly as he makes good the lone urinal, hands free and whistling
4/10: There’s a calm sensation running through me, like ice water blood bubbling, starting from a spot just below my collar and pooling out beneath my skin in freezing sheets that coat muscle, fat and tendon.
4/11: It’s interesting to look at the things in people’s front yards. Especially when you’re out in the middle of nowhere. How they choose to advertise themselves to no one, whether manifested in a decaying 41 Chevy flatbed or pine-sculpted carnivores or a fuming pyre of yard waste, is something of particular interest.
4/12: A neon moss made the gnarled limbs of the trees glow in the mild evening light of the forest valley
4/6 - It’s going to take a while before I get used to experiencing daylight.
ReplyDelete4/7 - This is a sluggish day.
4/8 - The underground coffeehouse is always empty when my friends are there.
4/9 - Hot Shotz has an amazing variety of people.
4/10 - Four hours of sleep has never felt so good.
4/11 - That dog is very small.
4/12 - I’ll just assume the clouds are mustard gas.
4/6- Not kidding, saw an old woman toting two small dogs wrapped inside baby blankets within baby carriage. Have all the small dogs broken their legs?
ReplyDelete4/7-Today I saw a woman who looked like Chris Farley.
4/8- At work I find in myself, rarely, a rhythm. A rhythm which makes talking easier, more jovial, which makes the mechanics of the job seem more natural, as if the movements of the job are extensions of more natural movements, extensions of my eat, sleep, write movements. This rhythm makes the money come fluently, the tips, people love me, I love them, we're a circle that moves like a circle and then--it's gone and you never know when or if it'll ever come back.
4/9- The dentist told me I had the problem tooth of the month, which sounded like the problem tooth of the year. Secretly I enjoy this, because I want him to work harder for all that money.
4/10- Ate at Cosmo's Pizza in Boulder. Roughly midnight. Slices of pizza hung over the paper plates and smacked the smudged metal countertops as they were called for pickups. A drunk girl stumbled into our booth, staring fixedly on something like pepper flakes or someone's lips. She asked if we'd seen her keys.
4/11- Made cookies called "boobies." (Stemmed odd some italian cookie name) Boys around the table said, "Mmm these boobies are tasty!" "Everyone loves boobies." And, "Do you like boobies?"
4/12- Mother hasn't had a cigarette in 16 days. She said everything is louder.
Week 2:
ReplyDelete4/5: Two guys were outside on their second floor apartment deck, smoking cigarettes and enjoying the sunshine. They talked about getting stoned and Vegas.
4/6: A guy wearing florescent orange sneakers is walking around campus singing loudly about his florescent orange sneakers.
4/7: Fish is expensive. $8.15 for half a pound of halibut.
4/8: The wind keeps the bees away.
4/9: It’s been a few days of miscommunication.
4/10: Note to self: don’t drive on Meridian between 3-5pm. Coming is fine, it’s the going back that takes forever.
4/11: “On your left,” an older jogger says. My friend shuffles left. The man slows down, then cuts through us, an exasperated expression on his face.
4/6 - It's quite interesting how cilantro affects certain people differently -- for some, it's a delicious herb. For others like me, it smells and tastes like soap.
ReplyDelete4/7 - Stay weary of plans that come together a little too easily...
4/8 - Sometimes people take forever in fitting rooms and, for the person waiting with them, there's nothing to do but wander around the store staring at the same things you still don't want to buy.
4/9 - I sure hope the sun sticks around for filming this weekend!
4/10 - One of the strangest and not-good feelings is when you comment on something in a group and all you get is quiet awkwardness -- not even nods of understanding.
4/11 - Why when you're obviously filming something do people around you either don't notice or don't accomodate your shots? Stupid baseball people...
4/12 - After wrapping up the filming for iMoviefest, we went to our friend's house, watched the footage, watched a movie they were in before, ordered Thai food, and recorded the rap. A very nice Easter. I did eat an orange creme Cadbury Egg, so that was my Eastery celebration there. It was delicious.
4/07: I talk to my grandmother over the phone, but her voice is fading out again. It comes and goes, and it depresses me, because she can't sing to me anymore.
ReplyDelete4/08: The trees outside the window reach for the window, occasionally dragging a limb across the glass. The scratching sound matches the soundtrack to the movie.
4/09: I want to go home and be with Jamie. She sounds so lonely on the phone.
4/10: Her cheekbones and gray eyes remind me of summertime.
4/11: I've started to buy things for a kitchen I don't have.
4/12: There are days when I strictly avoid water. I hate how it makes me skin change.
4/13: Ruby turns 21 today. The last of us to turn, but the first of us to have ever drank anything with alcohol. I called her at 12:01 this morning to sing to her.
4/8 Red High Heels may be the sexiest shoes ever created.
ReplyDelete4/9 I don't give a damn what everybody says about her. Britney Spears is awesome and she puts on one hell of a concert.
4/10 It's funny how one's interpretations of movies change over the years.
4/11 I never noticed how deeply blue his eyes were. It was the first glance that took my breath away.
4/12 Since when did Easter become a present giving holiday. It's seems that we took Christmas and Halloween and smashed them together.
4/13 Epidural shots should be banned and/or illegal...They really hurt and the pain lasts for days...I did not sign up for this.
4/14 Nothing at the moment seems more constricting than a back brace...how is a girl supposed to breathe.
4/15 Sometimes I would rather get an epidural shot than waking up at 4am for work then continuing class until 4pm.
4/4: Austen is right. Drinking the night before leaves you dangerously dehydrated the day after.
ReplyDelete4/5: Spring is here at long last!
4/6: She says it's as if her sleep hours are being robbed little by little, like a cashier at the cash register.
4/7: Don't walk into a classroom late and say with a resounding voice, "Sorry".
4/8: My brain was numb and as cold as the fruit I was blending at work.
4/9: Little kids stare into my eyes. What do they see that I don't?
4/10: The pink blossoms match the perfectly blue sky.
4/11: The world is made gray by the close clouds.
4/12: Did I take singing lessons? Ha! Have you heard attempt to sing?
4/13: Today I was a soldier humping my backpack through the chill air to the main base.
4/5: When I am playing Mario Kart on the Nintendo Wii, I am always nervous the blue turtleshell is going to take me out.
ReplyDelete4/6: At the risk of sounding sexist and narrow-minded, some men can be such babies when they're sick.
4/7: My daughter and I both hate mornings which makes me wonder, would she have been a morning person if I had been?
4/8: Mailmen and pharmacists must be privy to a lot of juicy details about people.
4/9: Sometimes I zone out so hard thinking about stories, twenty minutes can fly by.
4/10: I attempted to save a struggling roach in my building by throwing it in the bushes. I mean it was on it's back every time I went in the hallway. I had to help it out. But I better tell the landlord about it.
4/11: Took Isabella to Easter Egg Hunt this morning. Hoped she would win the Golden Egg but was stoked on all the candy.
4/6: I got a text message from my friend Dan's phone asking what he could do with a phone he found. I thought it was Dan asking me so I made some joke about making a bunch of international calls. It turns out some guy found his phone and was trying to get it back to him. I felt like an asshole.
ReplyDelete4/7: The bus driver on the 1:58pm run, route 105 spoke like a soccer mom from Minnasota and asked everyone who came on the bus, "how was your day?"
4/8: I took my dog out to pee and my neighbors where drinking on their porch. He ran over to them so I had to go get him. I held him by the collar while walking him back to my house. He pulled me over and I fell, scraping my knee. They all laughed at me.
4/9: I found a fossil on the beach today.
4/10: I saw someone at Taco Del Mar who had a tattoo on her foot that said "foot."
4/11: I went to a track meet at civic stadium. My cousin threw javalin.
4/12: Coconut Kenny's have the best hot sandwiches in Bellingham. Try the Boogie Board or the Killer Pork.
4/4: No matter your response, every time the cook at work asks if you've seen a movie, he launches into a plot synopsis, cracking himself up at the funny parts.
ReplyDelete4/5: My father and his wife terrorize us all with their eggcorns and mispronunciations. He loves his expresso and she counts the skadoos at their lake.
4/6: My mother asks my two-year old nephew how his first day of school was and he says,"I cry" and then, proudly, "I bite boy's sandwich."
4/7: If the bus is filled with Western students, I turn up my i-pod as loud as it will go and stare out the window. If there is a group of mysterious looking, middle-aged people that all seem to know each other, I've learned that it is best to get out a book and listen up.
4/8: Now that Vancouver's 94.5 uses autotune in its station identification, perhaps it is time for hip-hop musicians to let it go.
4/9: Love how bus drivers are always indignant when a passenger questions where the bus is going, when, unannounced, it turns in the opposite direction of the scheduled route. Can't imagine why it would be necessary for a bus to drive three blocks out of the way, skipping two stops, only to pick back up as if it is business as usual, and yet, its happened twice in the last month.
4/10: Someone has altered the sign at work to read: BUTT SEX ONLY, with BOOBS added in the corner like an afterthought, complete with dots to represent nipples.