June 2012
87 posts
“We’re related—I’m the boy version of her.”
– Almost forgot the best quote from last night—Ross explaining to another wedding guest how we know each other.
“If I was drunker that guy would look like Obama.”
– Ross discussing another wedding guest
“Finish that wine so we can go dance to Ke$ha.”
– Ross…in response to a Nicki Minaj song.
My brother is the best person to attend weddings with.
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haze
work gives me more time to write tiny little paragraphs, I guess
aninch:
I had never been a fan of afternoon drives like this. Something was always shimmering at me in the distant heat of the highway, like a thousand sets of wings plucked from flies. It felt uselessly prophetic. I wanted the sky to go dark and the road to lose its edges, to lose its horizons and predictions. I wanted to barrel...
99 degrees you say? Feels like 111 degrees you...
Good thing the heat is on in my apartment and my landlord is useless.
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People in my apartment complex were having a...
When I asked if she knew what they were arguing about, she sighed and responded in true mom fashion:
“Apparently somebody was trippin’.”
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If i had one of those sterotype-style Native American names it would be “Girl Who Superglues Fingers Together”.
Albums to spin when you are feeling bitter about...
by the liter
It’s funny how lately everything has got to tasting like blood.
I think maybe I am
silently, secretly
hemorrhaging through my lips and my gums.
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Bought all of the candles Salvation Army had.
I will be holding a seance in my apartment tonight. We will be trying to summon electricity. You are cordially invited.
“I know that’s right!”
– Apartment neighbor-lady after I said that, yes, I was just coming back from Goodwill. I think we will get on nicely.
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More reasons to be happy I am in Des Moines →
“Music is now being recognized as a fruit-fly industry — an early indicator of new technologies, new business models, and the economy in general. … Proof that clusters of musicians or ‘scenes’ can transform a community abound.”
This premise — now widely held by economic developers — is what led central Iowa leaders to include the music economy in the Capital Crossroads Regional Vision Plan....
when I look up
I see dying suns but no
forgiving gods.
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Dear Landlord,
What the fuck.
Sincerely Annoyed,
Me
Dear New Apartment,
I am so in love with you, but that love will truly blossom when they install the stove, fix the shower, finish ripping out the carpet, put screens in the windows, put door knobs on the rest of the doors…
Sincerely,
Me
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“Almost empty, almost full, almost finished. I hated the way the word flattened...”
– between, Aninch
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“‘Your idea of love is rather primitive. Love is not a series of...”
– Bonjour Tristesse
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New job= finishing one book ~every 2 days
So there are four people in my section on my shift. Three people have one break schedule, one person has another. GUESS WHO GOT RANDOMLY SELECTED TO HANG OUT ALONE LIKE, ALL THE TIME??
On the upside, I finally read The Bell Jar.
