mimi smartypants
Seriously, though: what's with the penguins?
shape of a wolf's head
STICK IT IN MY NOSE My stupid cough is back and I am having another pertussis test tomorrow. Only a fifteen-dollar copay to get a lab tech to stick a cotton swab up my nose and rotate it around. I bet you'd do it for free, right? Well come on over and bring your swabs. […]
poison well, right this way
RUMMAGE SALE 1. According to my Chicago Public Schools calendar, “Hispanic-American Heritage Month” just started. It starts mid-September and ends mid-October, so I guess that's a month but why not a calendar month? Are you trying to confuse us? October is already “Polish-American Heritage Month.” Maybe there was a huge fight and they said (in […]
oozing exactness
Quote from “Good Old Neon”: “What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at a given instant.” And yet, those outlines of those tiny little parts were sketched so goddamn well. […]
shrinkie-doodle-doo
KINDERGARTEN TURNS MY MIND TO MUSH I fall in and out of love with a lot of things: public transportation, Chicago in general, modern literature, my job. The cycles are unpredictable and have nothing to do with hormones or seasons or blood alcohol level. Parenting is no exception. Of course I always love Nora, but […]
drifted back to the tea-table
HIDDEN GEM It is a new school year, so for my neighborhood that means a new crop of bewildered Loyola students on public transportation. I must be a cantankerous old lady because I often find myself wondering if all teenagers are this dumb or if it is something specific to that school. I try to […]
paid fifty dollars on twelth street today
I feel kind of quiet lately. Maybe remodeling has sucked all the words right out of me. New appliances, countertop (finally), and sink are very enjoyable, however, and I have to admit that the LT-demanded refrigerator-door ice/water dispenser, which initially had me saying “what's the big deal” (LT: IT SEPARATES US FROM THE APES!), is […]
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