Month: April 2009

The Twilight Zone

What a long, strange week it’s been. If I’d wanted an experience like that, I’d have dropped acid in a sewer crawling with spiders. Speaking of which, a word to the wise: Never go chasing after a jumping spider when you’ve got fresh incisions all over your torso. But more on that in the next post. Last week started off like any other recent week I’ve been dragging through like fingers through sludge — with […]

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Finger Food

I have little faith in my ability to resume writing on this blog. Timorous, tentative steps. The ice is thinner than it looks. My accomplishment today was to spend time with my student, MM, and two of her children. We filled out applications for a library card (which I’d had the unusual foresight to print online last night) and had no trouble in getting the cards issued. I was so excited I felt like it […]

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