Going for a walk is a good thing to do when you don't know what to do.

How Jill's Brain Works: a short play
(brain reflects on an evening at the Blue Cat brewpub in Rock Island)
JILL'S BRAIN: Where is it that right across from the workshop space there's a cool coffee shop called the Blue something?
JILL'S BRAIN 2: is it Spokane?
(brain provides mental image of the Blue Door Theater)JILL'S BRAIN: no it's someplace ( Read more... )

For some reason I'm weird and shy about getting headshots or formal photos taken. But then I see other peoples and I'm jealous. They're such good marketing tools, they can be so slick-looking. The photos I'm jealous of aren't even complicated, they're really very simple.


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Oh thank god for 2 in 1 shampoo and conditioner. Did we really used to shampoo and then condition?? Our grandchildren will never believe us.

I want to be in the staying-up-late olympics.

So wait - Macy's cares that my check hasn't really cleared so my frantic bra-fitting is futile?

Wait - at a C cup you can't get real straps on your bras, just bouncy spaghetti things?

I don't enjoy any of this news.

I've only just realized lately that I love nighttime for the quiet. The quiet and the dark. No one is prattling on, no noise is filling my ears, no ringing of phones, and the sun is not shining on my poor pale skin and in my squinty eyes. Tonight it's just the sound of the wind and the occasional car, plus the glow of this tiny screen and ( Read more... )

I wish people who think I dress eccentrically know how much impulse control I'm demonstrating. For example, I did not wear blue track pants and a grey cardigan today, thank you very much. I mean, I wore blue track pants, I'm not saying I'm Little Suzy Normal Clothes ( Read more... )

Look you guys, not getting out of bed today isn't a "choice," it is who I am, and you're just going to have to learn to live with it.

Ok maybe I will get out of bed.

I get kind of paralized when I don't know what to do. Like this thing with my car, the guy said last Wednesday that the first step would be to check the transmission fluid and I haven't done it yet. I have to get this all resolved by April 10th because that's when my car insurance is up. If I'm going to scrap it I should scrap it. Yet that ( Read more... )