the slime of all my yesterdays

good places to have talks: laundromats, bathtubs, cars with the engine turned off, in line for roller coasters, stairways, patches of grass in front of apartment buildings. this blog may talk about these places!

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Location: New York, New York, United States

grew up in birmingham, alabama. went to college in los angeles and have now been in new york for six years. i work in development for a non-profit that supports a group of all-girls public schools, and i find it very difficult to balance that professional side of me with the creative, story telling side. i miss writing stories every day, as i had to in college for my creative writing degree. i miss sitting down and knowing that within an hour something i was proud of, something sacred and never before shared, would be living, outside of me. i want, very deeply, to reach a place that allows me space for both sides.

Saturday, November 27, 2004

prayer

things im thankful for:

the way the scrapes on my skin make me think of a darkening banana peel

driving to the mission with ryan and nate on the busiest shopping day of the year, just to drive a square around texas and 17th, and turn around and come back

that i didnt bite my nails for a few days so today it was extra satisfying

sarah.

the ungame, and questions as ridiculous as "say something about child abuse."

my mother crying on thanksgiving morning when the game instructed her to say something about homelessness, and she said its a sin, we should all feel ashamed, as she stuck a kleenex behind her glasses and dabbed her tears.

this memory, still relating to the ungame: the question is whats your greatest fantasy, and my brother, who was not more than 20 at the time, said a full refrigerator. the question is whens your favorite part of the day, and my grandmother, who was almost seventy, said, "when its over."

rotten ralph.

walking up the hill in the dark tonight, not being able to see whats in front of me.

ryan eating 5 turkey sandwhiches and saying, i never knew turkey sandwhiches were so good.

that nate says sammiches.

sitting on andys lap at my dining room table where about 50% of the people on this earth who i adore are drinking a bottle of wine from 1983 around me.

lauren's birthday, and how she sort of giggles when shes saying something she thinks is slightly devilish, something shes mildly ashamed of but isnt about to not do.

the last movie night

having 4 different desserts

the month of december

flying on planes

the sound a keyboard makes

japanese stationairy

bruises

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