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Archive for December 2012

every damn thing makes a beeping noise

NO, ICE CUBE, IT WAS NOT A GOOD DAY The day after Christmas. Inevitable letdown that I am not going to have another day of wine and sugar and being silly with my family. I got up, took ibuprofen for the holiday hangover, drank a bunch of room-temperature water with lemon, fed Nora, and got […]

can you feel it

MAKING ENEMIES! Here is Nora being gleeful about a scene of destruction near my neighborhood. We watched enormous claws rip out rebar for as long as we could, without being late for school. It was totally great. The thing being destroyed is a public library, but fear not! A new, better one is being built […]

quiet quiet me

Some people think social media is a great “place” to be after horrific events, but I have not found that to be the case. Sure, I raged for a while on Twitter and Facebook, because I believe that yes, it is about guns, in large measure. I believe that saying, “Let’s not politicize this” is […]

unleash your inner seal

Can you help with University of Chicago’s mystery package? WELL THAT WAS UNCOMFORTABLE 1. Got a call from the school nurse, who did not say a single reassuring thing at the beginning of her call beyond asking me if I was my kid’s mother and identifying herself as the nurse. Thanks a lot! 2. She […]

trapped inside the story

I’M THROUGH APOLOGIZING Sometimes I relate my dreams here and I intro it with a big long apology thing about how it’s boring to listen to/read about other people’s dreams, etc. I am through with that because this is my diary and my dreams are often fucking interesting. So there. I dreamed about driving down […]