My grandmother’s sense of time has gone out the window. She sleeps during the day, then doesn’t understand why it’s dark at dinner time. Her understanding of the weather is tricky at best. She has no idea where she is in relation to North Carolina — she thinks we’re twenty minutes from Rocky Mount, whichContinue reading “On a Sad Feeling”
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On Prezzies
It’s been a quiet Christmas in Lake Wobegon, my hometown. Wait, that’s not right. It’s been a quiet Christmas. Slept late. Opened presents well past noon. Ate some cookies. Drank some nog. What did I get? A Fossil watch. Despite the tag saying that I can adjust the links myself, I can’t get the damnedContinue reading “On Prezzies”
On Hateful Weather
Today was a miserable, sloppy day. Rain, cold driving rain. Pretty much all day. I hate it. It wouldn’t have been so bad had I not gone on an impromptu road trip. But the company let me leave early today at noon, and I needed to get my Christmas shopping done, and that meant roadContinue reading “On Hateful Weather”
On Doctors and their Names
Last week the agency that placed me at where I worked called me — they wanted to know how the assignment was going, as I’d been there for three months and the company had told them it would be a three to four week work assignment. “What do you do there?” I tried to explain.Continue reading “On Doctors and their Names”
On the Nonsense
My grandmother lost her purse. My dad and I were eating dinner. My grandmother, rather than eat anything, wanted to find her purse, and she was growing increasingly angry. She looked in the broom closet. She looked in the oven. She stood on her tip-toes and tried to look in the top cabinet. Every cabinetContinue reading “On the Nonsense”
On a Return Address
No, I am not an Arab terrorist. No, envelopes are not addressed in Arabic. It’s really English, but written in Elvish Tengwar. (Maybe it’s a good thing I couldn’t buy the Arabic stamps like I wanted to. Apparently there’s not a large enough Muslim population here.) Though I am expecting to have postal inspectors showContinue reading “On a Return Address”
On Fog
I feel as though I live in an accursed moor. Fog lays across the land like a festering malignancy. Spectral hounds bay at the moon. Death stalks the night. I am tired of fog. Tired, tired, tired of fog. I get up in the morning, and it’s foggy. I drive to work, and it’s foggy.Continue reading “On Fog”
On Allyn's Friday Feeling
I’m feeling a bit depressed and a whole lot down. No particular reason, just how I feel this Friday night. Anyone who wants to think happy thoughts, I’ll gladly take them.
On Last Night's House
Spoilers, obviously. The last scene made me think of Minority Report, frankly. I think we’ve entered phildickian territory, House died of his overdose, and the final scene (and everthing beyond it) is just House’s final thoughts before the end. So at this point, whatever happens doensn’t matter. It’s just a dream. That’s my story, andContinue reading “On Last Night's House”
On An "Oh, Shit" Moment
This evening I went through on-line job listings. I saw an opening that looked interesting with a non-profit poverty relief organization. Hmm, said I — this could be cool. So I started their application process. Upload the resume? Check. Fill out contact information? Check. Then they wanted to test some basic reading comprehension skills. Hmm,Continue reading “On An "Oh, Shit" Moment”