4/25: We eat veggie burgers at the Tulip Festival.
4/26: I find a live, green tree frog and a dead mole in the front yard while pruning ferns.
4/27: E. is holed up watching internet TV in an apartment in Sudan. There is another girl who's been there for two and a half years.
4/28: She calls to tell me she's bought a piano at a garage sale. Except it wasn't a garage sale. She asked a man if this was a garage sale, and he said no, but he did have this piano he wanted to get rid of. Then she bribed some random men to drive it home for her. When they showed up, the men said, 'You didn't tell us it was a piano.' She said, 'I didn't?'
4/29: I expected the sand we bought to be whiter.
4/30: Emails today: budget crisis, swine flu, illness, irritability. Things are bleak in my inbox.
5/1: We are washing our hands, washing our hands, washing our hands.
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ReplyDelete4/26: Fairhaven and Bellingham both shut down around 5-6ish on Sunday, which makes it hard for donut hunters to be successful.
4/27: Is not going to the gym worth the guilt of not going to the gym? Yes, yes it is.
4/28: I wonder if people realize that cell phone conversations are not private. A girl on the bus tells an invisible speaker that there are a lot of gay people out there, so the odds are pretty high the speaker will have a gay friend. She then proceeds to tell the speaker not to be so conservative. I wonder if any other people on the bus are listening to her.
4/29: Before a test there is that shuffle of papers, as people flip through their notes and textbooks, desperately trying to retain even a little more information, hoping they might skim over an answer in that moment, to be later recalled.
4/30: People who wait till the last minute to move out of their apartment, and then proceed to vacuum their apartment at 11 o’clock at night on said moving day, SUCK.
5/1: I keep hearing random noises in my apartment. Ghost?
4/18: Bellingham on a Saturday: fourteen guys in Speedos play some form of team-based leapfrog on the grass two blocks from my apartment.
ReplyDelete4/19: The homeless man is going through our garbage cans again like a tourist in khakis and plaid, lifting lids down the side of a breakfast buffet.
4/20: College Hall feels more posts-apocalyptic than any other building on campus. Before class I wander around the unlocked rooms scavenging for items people have left behind: empty cabinets, paperclips, hotel pens, mini-fridges filled with Tupperware and suspect food, and I think: Someone must have gotten here before me. Someone else must still be alive.
4/21: There must be someone juggling on the other side of the wall, but from here I can only see bowling pins doing back-flips over the verge.
4/22: When I get to the library's annual book sale a woman is already packing up boxes of Chaucer and Twain and Rousseau, taking the best-looking novels to sell downtown, at seven times the price.
4/23: I can see why ninjas don’t wear flip-flips.
4/24: The burned hillsides around Leavenworth and Peshastin are yellow with balsam roots.
Oops. That's the trouble with cut/paste. Those calendar dates are a week off.
ReplyDelete4/26/09
ReplyDeleteChrome glinted in early morning sunlight as my roommate and I drove to Burlington at eight AM for J’s football game. A whole line of classic custom cars cruised in front of us. It was like the best Twilight Zone ever.
4/27/09
When you realized who had written it, you were disappointed. Satisfied your instincts were so acute, but the writing was more moving than the author. You realized too late that you preferred the mystery of loosing yourself in the writing without the distraction of the man behind the curtain.
4/28/09
I saw the woman from work with the flamingo-zebra-stripe hair who wore the dandelion chain her son made like a crown.
4/29/09
The dry, sweet smell of cut alfalfa filters through my nose. In the heat it rises, a ghost of summertime.
4/30/09
My notes on Medieval literature is decorated with embroidery-like embellishments, knights in shining armor, fire breathing dragons (crisping the knights), and famous, fictional characters like Robin Hood and King Arthur. I understand what my roommate means when she compares me to one of her third graders.
5/1/09
When I tell the class about the 1.2 million children killed in Holocaust. Living skeletons with skin like webbing stretched across their ribs, burned alive, frozen to death, experimented on, and castrated—this was their fate. How could anyone forget?
5/2/09
My nephew loves light. He turns his dark, round eyes up; his head wobbling with the effort to move his four-month-old head. He stares at light bulbs, windows, and TV screens, all reflected in his absorbent eyes. His arms wave like the lazy drift of a jellyfish caught in calm waters.
5/3/09
L. shows us the pictures she took in London. She points out a shot of Abbey Road to me, a Beatles fanatic. A man I do not know is walking the famous crosswalk, a man who, L. tells me later, tried to kiss her in the darkness of the dormitory lounge.
4/28 Some weird guy’s staring at me while on the bus. Maybe I know him.
ReplyDelete4/29 I used some Listerine today for the first time in a long time, it burned mouth.
4/30 ORGANIZE, I need to get everything organized.
5/1 It’s May day! Who cares? May Day sucks too many customers.
5/2 In the end, it really doesn’t matter.
4/26- There's a glistening pile of cut hair on my roommates desk. It glints gold in the sunlight which pours through our curtainless window. I almost barf. Who cuts their split ends and leaves them in a pile for sunlight to illuminate as if they were trophies displayed for optimum affect?
ReplyDelete4/27- A bird lands harshly on a grass incline, its wing splayed as if awkwardly bracing. I wonder if some birds can't fly well. I wonder why the wing didn't instinctively tuck itself back under.
4/28- Watched two girls do double takes, then bust out at laughing at the sight of me. I'm not strong enough today to let it go. I went looking for them, but couldn't find them. I wonder what I would have said.
4/29- My loose fan belt gives me all this unnecessary attention, and I get mad about it.
4/30- It seems like everyone around me is better off.
5/1- I told my teacher that what I want in a teacher is to tell me when a story sucks. Just stop and go me please.
5/2-I bled new blood on my spikes. The old blood, rusted. Blood on top of blood on top of rust on top of.
5/3-I hate cocktail servers. Anything involving tips surely stimulates that fake nice characteristic, they’ve got lists of people’s names, they take notes to kiss ass, to build a fan base, keep it coming.
5/4-The blood drive sign is leaking red paint in lines like tears.
4/27 - Is it wrong to be happy that the GPA of a person trying to get the same job as you is lower?
ReplyDelete4/28 - Let me just say: allergies suck.
4/29 - Cherry blossom trees seem to be the prettiest indicator that spring has arrived.
4/30 - I learned how to tie knots and hitches! Yay me! I think I got them all right on the midterm, too.
5/1 - It's so much fun to film in widescreen.
5/2 - A day without protein is a terrible day! And alcohol doesn't have protein, either.
5/3 - Overloading on protein helped the previous day, but that's not good either. There's something to be said for balanced diets.
I totally space cased! and forgot to post last week! so there is more observations than usual...
ReplyDelete4/24 it is nice to know that when you are having a really bad day that there is someone waiting for you at home that is going to turn it around
4/25 i could use a massage
4/26 5 hour energy shots last about 30 min! i want my $1.99 back
4/27 i cant wait for this week to be over. it is offcially mid-terms week
4/28 cooking at home is way cheaper than going out to eat. plus it is nice to finally break out the cookbook that has been collecting dust for months
4/29 i cant believe that the month of april is almost over...and my story is due tomorrow!!!!
4/30 i hope that may day brings lots of flowers and sunshine
5/1 its May day! it is soo sunny out but looks are decieving! it is freaking cold out! good thing i brought my sweater today
5/2 thank goodness it is saturday! time for some celebrating!
5/3 chinese food is the perfect weekend ender
5/4 tomorrow i sign up for summer quarter! the last quarter of my western career...and my story is getting workshopped tomorrow! scary!!!
I forgot last week too! Here they are!
ReplyDelete4/24-First day of work in a week, and it wasn't so bad.
4/25-Sometimes you worry more about your girlfriend worrying than anything else.
4/26-A great day for tennis.
4/27-A little consistent sunshine makes me happy.
4/28-So does someone laughing when I'm trying to be funny.
4/29-Old propaganda films are really interesting.
4/30-A good pair of shorts is hard to find.
5/1-Whiskey and ginger ale--the heavenly mix.
5/2-Blossoms smell like sweet rot in the rain, but I kinda like it
5/3-I like sharing.
5/4-Losing your wallet can be expensive
5/5-I have good teachers this quarter. Sometimes you feel like they just like hearing themselves talk, and you think they were the students who always annoy the crap out of you as an undergrad.
-Nat
4/27 - I wonder how many quantum mechanics I will encounter today.
ReplyDelete4/28 - It’s always a mystery how I get from one place to another.
4/29 - Student elections have nearly the same value and purpose as general elections.
4/30 - The smell of burning charcoal makes me not weirded out that random people are wandering into my house.
5/1 - Bellingham created its streets so that new people would never get where they wanted to.
5/2 - How many celebrities can you fit into a salad bowl?
5/3 - Couch is a distance, not a place.
4/27: Monday. Rainy. On the plus side, it won’t be busy at Freshens.
ReplyDelete4/28: A car dove by with tree petals pasted onto it with rain.
4/29: I woke up at eight am again today. Another day with squinted eyes.
4/30: “Don’t tell me what stage I’m in. I’m in hell.” Tears flowing down her face.
5/1: Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. It’s the first of the month.
5/2: First day of a long train of birthdays
5/3: Air fluttered gently through the trees into my room.
** Totally forgot to post this week!! Sorry!!
ReplyDelete4/28: Club night and again the anthropology class comes to view us like animals in a zoo. They join in with cheesy smiles on their face, like they are doing US a favor by slowing us down and shooting us judging looks.
Wed 4/29: Slow day of homework and more homework, I’m observing my sanity slowly drift away.
Thurs 4/30: Without any sleep last night I can hardly find the energy to go out dancing, The Office seems to be my only ray of sunshine.
Fri 5/1: the ladybug pooped it’s wing on my hand and when I tried to row it back to shore, it disappeared. I have saved three bugs today, not counting the mysterious ladybug. I like to call myself Bug Hero.
Sat 5/2: Oh Blessed Saturday, how I love thee… let me count the reasons why….
Sun 5/3: Conformation Class was canceled because only one kid was there, joining a church just isn’t on people’s to-do list anymore.
4/26-I love going out on my roof, even in the pouring rain. It is my window to the world.
ReplyDelete4/27-Got a new couch and the whole place feels different, but I like it.
4/28-My dad's blue rainjacket hangs in my closet along with one of my maternity dresses. I'm still a pack rat.
4/29-Watched the movie "Wonder Boys" today. Have to say I quite enjoyed it.
4/30-The rugrat lounges on the chair eating crackers and cheese--the cutest thing ever.
5/1-My new cell phone can't make smiley faces because the parentheses is missing. Should I call and complain about this?
5/2-I'm not sure why I walk so slow, but people always seem to want to ask me why.
4/28: My journal, a sketchbook stolen from a box of books that my cousin set in the barn, is plump and colorful for the first thirty pages. The last couple hold only these bursts of observation. What happened to my goal to write daily?
ReplyDelete4/29: My friend gets a tattoo, birds soaring in a wide arc down her side. Her freckles look like sunspots.
4/30: When I hold the final book in my hands, I feel a sense of pride. I make sure to mention I was published when I reply to someone's friendly questioning on FB.
5/1: My mind could burst with all the frustrations this planning has caused.
5/2: I get a phonecall at 1:22am. Come get me, come pick me up. I'm stuck downtown and can't find my car. I drive 2 hours from my home to find her wandering the streets of Portland, smelling of beer and someone's cheap cologne.
5/3: She wakes and I leave. She apologizes with her eyes, but says nothing as I grab an apple from her counter and walk out the door. I have 5 hours to drive before I get back to campus.
5/4: I tell my mother I'm trying to find a way to stay up in Bellingham. She tells me I'm a spiteful child who hates her family.
istalksnape was me, Alexis. Used the wrong profile to post the comment. :/
ReplyDelete4/25: The sign by the punch-in clock reads: Parking Lot is for COSTUMERS ONLY!!!
ReplyDelete4/26: We are officially old. The song whose release Jesse cites as his peak drug use, everybody's peak drug use, has been covered. Poorly.
4/27: At the show, earplugs are distributed. The finale is inhumanely loud feedback that vibrates our seats. Jesse and I laugh when he pantomimes plucking out someone's earplugs from behind, and mimics the person in the row below us, who stares at the stage with an open-mouthed, moronic grin frozen to his face. The song is 21 minutes long.
4/28: My sister says, no, she didn't take the day off for her birthday this year, because her students had planned a surprise party for her. She explained that second-graders don't understand the concept of celebrating a birthday on the wrong day.
4/29: The new produce sprayer in Haggen sounds like screaming rats.
4/30: In Jordan, instead of Victoria's Secret, they have Woman's Secret.
5/1: If you host a birthday party for 20+ at a restaurant and don't offer a piece of the store-bought princess cake to the person who had to breathe shallowly for 100 baby steps across slick tile so as not to blow out any of the 90 candles that blazed atop her outstretched arms, don't expect to find all of it in the to-go box you requested.
4/27 - So I checked under the hood, no orange stuff, I'm strangely paranoid about my truck.
ReplyDelete4/28 - Just because I told my manager I don't have school at 6 AM doesn't mean I want to work at 6 AM!!
4/29 - So I just realized, that this week I will log about 35 hours of work and fifteen credits of school. I don't like this week.
4/30 - We've stopped winding line on people's reels; it is surprising how people can get so mad about something so simple that they could learn to do themselves; it's not rocket science!
5/1 - I just realized I left my jacket in Vancouver, sucks it had my iphone earbuds which I need for running.
5/2 - Off work in time to hit up Costco, hope they have some free samples :).
5/3 - Another working weekend, my knees and back hurt like crazy so I'm going to double up on some Ibuprofen before bed.