December 2011
30 posts
anti-climatic confessional
i am a sick idiot fan of anyone who makes me a mixed CD with “I Saw the Sign” on it.
I still forget how to pack
It’s the two houses. I blame split families exclusively for my inability to pack from one place to another back to the first and still back again like the shuttle run of days.
From my mom’s house back to my dad’s I packed for the overnight in a backpack rather than toting all the luggage. Still I managed an extra day’s worth of clothes but nothing to sleep in.
So my dad loaned me a Bruce...
“Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something...”
– Steve Martin. again.
“Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with...”
– Steve Martin, in response to his own quote from a letter to his then girlfriend, “I have decided my act is going to go avant-guard. It is the only way to do what I want.”
“This is great. My cat is dying, I don’t have a job, and my partner’s...”
– as heard on the Damen train platform, spoken to said partner (and also she was pregnant).
weekend brunch
This is the second day in a row that I’ve had Dunkin Donuts coffee and tortilla chips for breakfast. Is it strange to admit that’s a step up from my usual morning fare?
i am enjoying this Architecture in Helsinki CD
I truly work for some of the kindest, most generous people in the world. It is touching beyond words. And I guess this statement is two fold, because I technically work in two different places.
In September, I started a new day job. I got hired to work for a woman & her family, who live within perfect walking distance from my apartment even in the crappy crap weather. This job popped up on...
day whatever this is of the situation comedy
Sleeping in is just plain not an option. On the rare occasions that I can, I shoot out of bed at a too-early hour thinking that I am fatally late for work, only to realize that I am not, only to then realize that I am wide awake and then panicking about other things like the fact that we were smoking cigarettes in the theater the night before and now I have to go up there and fix this because...
Spirited Young Woman and the Case of the Elusive...
Hot water heaters, it would seem, are exceptionally skillful at the game of “Hide & Seek.” Much like small children they don’t have the cognitive skills to recognize when the game is over, when an adult can’t find them that their status turns sharply from “hiding” to “lost,” and this is an altogether different game whereby it is no longer a game....
we welcome you, winter.
there was a rat at the Indian buffet; we both saw it, so i know it was there. this morning the hot water was out; in both bathroom water sources, so i know it was true. i just sold my Ryan Adams ticket in a triangle-shaped Starbucks; we Craigslisted our wares in the pointy end along the hypotenuse. on my feet are two pairs of socks, on my legs two pairs of pants, and on my body four shirts; half...
the deadliest tornado, part etcetera
On Friday there was someone at the show who was in my French class in high school. This was in Alabama. He goes to the same school for his master’s that my sister goes for her undergrad. I have lived in Chicago for 6 years and 3-plus months. Today I went to Strange Cargo because I was early for my improv class, and the cashier recognized the Alabama Tornado ribbon sticker on my helmet and...
anti-stoics
Just because you don’t let it tumble out of you like the entrails of a public baseball doesn’t mean that it doesn’t give you extremely heavy boots.
one of the best books i ever read
“It’s easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene. Remember me eight months ago? That was easy.”
“It didn’t sound easy.”
“It was simple. Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.”
“So what’s something?”
“Being reliable is something. Being good.”
-Extremely Loud &...
graduate school
Possibly forever after the undergrad, people often want to know when and if you’re going to get your master’s, which I can only imagine feels something like getting married and being constantly asked when you’re going to have a baby.
All I have to do is take two short looks around: one at my Sallie Mae loan balance, and one at all the unemployed people with master’s...
mental maps
I used to know the downtown streets going west from State. I thought when I first moved here and worked downtown I would need to know that by heart. But it’s been awhile since then and it seems I forgot them tonight when I needed them off the Brown at Washington and Wells.
the lake. LSD. Columbus. Michigan. Wabash. State. Dearborn. Clark. LaSalle. Wells. Franklin.
and just for good measure:
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