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Archive for May 2003

it wakes you up like a punch in the nose

On 9 May 2003

I am almost done with the business-trip tidbits that are swirling around in my brain. For real.AIRPORT STUFFSigns in the pick-up area of O'Hare arrivals mention “dwell time.” Areas in which you cannot linger say NO DWELL TIME. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may! Carpe diem! No dwell time!Pittsburgh airport seems more overtly security-conscious than […]

I haven't forgotten thee, I just haven't gotten around to thee

On 8 May 2003

Because business travel has further destroyed our heroine's capacity for narrative, she resorts once again to The Numbering Trick. She also resolves to not refer to herself in the third person. She considers revising that opening sentence. She does not. She worries that she comes off as pretentious, irritating, faker-literary, too clever by half, and […]

angle of repose

On 1 May 2003

UPDATE: MY HEAD AND THE HAIR CONTAINED THEREONMy hair absolutely will not do any sort of normal hair-activity today, one side has this big ridiculous S-curve like Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep, only instead of sexy-slinky like Lauren Bacall, it is dorky-dweeby like me. Incidentally, just like every time I think “David Bowie” I […]