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So, I've been super busy and have over extended myself lately, it's been now, or today, rather, that I've finally taken all the plastic and tape out of the fridge - it was new, like brand spankin' new - and I am taking the plastic off of the butter tray in the fridge and I find two chicken cutlets in a seal bag. I know they're not mine bc I can't even cook at all, never mind deep fry chicken.
I washed my hands. I was grossed out. I have been eating more meat since I've been in NY but I don't and won't cook it at home and I especially don't like two week old fried chicken in my butter compartment.
I think it was chicken, if it was fish I would have smelled it and if it was meat meat I think I would have noticed that also.
It makes me want to scour the fridge, which I don't have time for, I don't even have time to buy a broom or do laundry but it does make me think of this:
How do my actions effect the next person?
and:
Maybe I should lower my expectations of people and accept the fact that human beings - including myself - are complete idiots and start from there.
Except in the latter case I think a) people should raise their expectations and b) since we have a current culture of complete inept-itude and stupidity - witness our current political situation - I find this unacceptable.
Actually, I agree with my mother. I need a wife and or a personal assistant.
The requirements are:
-tact and diplomacy
-a sense of humor
-computer savvy-ness
-must read books
-you have the sincere joy of making me happy
The salary:
-my cynical, self-depricating, pessimistic sense of humor
-my semi-decent taste in wine, beer, food, coffee, poetry, books, art and such
Salary: negotiable. Requirements: not very negotiable. The computer skills I'm willing to forgoe but would be quite nice. And also, don't leave mysterious food in the fridge.
Afternote: my cat likes the apt, she'd like it even better if I had to time to pet her.
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But of course I'm going to celebrate by having a party once I have furniture.
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Christina Strong & John Coletti
The Plough and Stars
912 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge
I was last in Cambridge in January so it's not like this is a homecoming. I should be in rare form.
So remember, I'm reading on April Fool's Day. Which is appropriate.
Remember also, my birthday is April 3 and I am now at the age that I would like to forget how old I am.
Remember this also, Frank Sherlock's birthday is also April 3. Same age, same year. I'm glad he made it.
]]>Bc I'd have to sit through a lot of bad poetry, watch people schmooze, while all the while waiting for the real event: the after parties.
Hate to break it to you folks but AWP is not the event of the century.
On other matters, bookwhore.com is up for renewal, I might renew it, I might not, but there are other things in the works.
Disclosure: Dan Irvine is a friend and a great artist I met in SF years ago.
He was the person who initially taught me photoshop, quark et al.
Without him, I'd be down a whole other career path...
Full disclosure: I didn't know what to write so
follow the links to "art" and it should speak for itself.
i was tagged by Sharon Mesmer
1 - the first cats/pets i ever had were called Hotdog and Beans.
2 - this is not my password to anything
3 - I remember snow. I remember the Brady Bunch
and All in the Family as well.
4 - I was taught how to swim by a
fascist swimming instructor at age 4.
He threw me in the water and I sank.
I learned how to tread water really quickly.
5 - I have a strong desire to go roller skating.
Now that global warming is official,
my ice skates are in the closet.
Happy New Year.
Cheers to Jack Kimball
why the long face?
Blue blood sassy mag?
Asks how painful
It is to drown
Your list is in my hands
Revealed: bad host gave some
vague not 401 error
demise re. plural ominous
eye racing for…
court Shangri-La no. 12.
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gutter idleness render stat
factor is chance is literal
dance damn is solo sour
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Cassandra never looked better than you did
Contra ignore stars, Ignatius even
Bore up, keep, trick or treat…
3 oh six beltway motive or refined…
pelvis, or a question wilt
rain. Suppose a famous person asks a question…
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pass garde crash on couch on swanky treat
love: an arc
give: dissident
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terabyte heaven you wish you were on the map
the fire door, the…something that a trope
tangible object, is wall hanging…
don’t talk to me about being nice or…flesh…dirt…
make gossip: thank you rape me mag…pho please?
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pretend: vacuum is wide: say please, is gbh”
o a get…shin…sheltered paper is…based in italics
Yeah Yeah it’s November! It’s Ribogane Month!
It’s shelter! Elect velum! Talk about torture!
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leverage: altercation blip essence! Trend for bass line.
Take your mother opponent ulcer… bliss
Ism…full scrub… is nil
just look book stack…is front for, shi tako su
you wouldn’t even know what a row note meant
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extra dull one life is for yourself
and one for the tab button re> squid re> castration
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your truly: pungent upon
angled x term and the tabloid read:
emancipation by suicide
]]>Tues evening my mother and I were fishing in my storage bin looking for my scarves, hats, and winter coats and I told her I wanted to get back in time to watch the election. She said: are we going to watch the elections ALL NIGHT?
Me: Yes.
My mom was not keen on this, she was primarily concerned about the CT races until I logged into CNN's web site all night and gave her updates on various ballot measures around the country, specifically the ban on abortion measure in SD, the ban on gay marriage in a number of states and minimum wage increases.
I didn't go to bed till I was certain the Dems took the House.
However, I woke up early the next morning to find my mother pressing keys on my computer to refresh the browser to see the current status.
I knew Lamont wasn't going to win for the past few months, when big bad Joe came on the TV early Wednesday to give his victory speech, my mother changed the channel bc, to paraphrase:
She didn't want to watch that !#@!!**?
Rumsfeld is gone, and yet we're now being subjected to one of the main men in the Iran/Contra affair.
History will hopefully bite these people in the ass. I hope these teethmarks leave a lasting impression.
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Updated: 10:18 p.m. ET
Lieberman
(Incumbent)
101,228 48%
Lamont
86,091 41%
23% of precincts reporting
on other matters:
Cruella de Ville is losing in FL
&
South Dakota Referendum 6:
Ban on Abortion
Updated: 10:19 p.m. ET
Full SD
Yes 10,581 47% 9% of precincts reporting votes by county not available
No 11,881 53%
Let me tell you, that MT, it's a pain and the forums aren't much help.
I am now uploading all CC's articles, then I have to show him how to post,
and then I am downloading a new version of MT,
and I am going to redesign this blog.
Maybe I will post more. Not that I don't have anything to say,
but I'm in "I'm keeping my mouth shut" mode.
Except of course when it comes to tomorrow.
I am going to have to find someone with a TV.
Let's hope the Democrats (of which I am not one)
don't fuck things up at the last minute like they usually do.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Arizona Sen. John McCain,
a likely Republican presidential contender in 2008,
joked on Wednesday he would "commit suicide" if
Democrats win the Senate in November.
She wrote: "how come they dont report on the devastation caused by the american military on the island...."
I wrote: bc silly, we are too busy conquering other countries to give a rat's ass about hawai'i
Write me a grant or I'll write my own grant to go there...re. gardless of the earthquakes...
]]>I suspect that when Amanda Cook's children
have children of their own,
they are probably going to be born
with a computer chip inside their head.
Which sounds frightening, but lately
it's been a: "hey, take your laptop
with you" kind of week, and that's frightening.
It's no wonder people medicate themselves.
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