so i went out with joseph for "tea". or rather me a coffee and him an open faced sandwich and a bottle of water. we talked about where we've traveled, roommates, smoking cigarettes, family. all mostly small talk. turns out he is from uganda, not senegal. and he has 14 brothers and sisters. i felt like i was doing more of the asking of information ( Read more... )

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bailey has been gone since tuesday, bliss. she went to some texas music festival thing. please stay in texas ( Read more... )

i thought i had seen everything until friday night. this is probably an exaggeration. but really, i've never experienced anything like this. so, my roommate jeff pees his bed frequently. at least once a week, whenever he drinks a lot of alcohol. he's passed out at the kitchen table before and peed all over the floor. alarming, but apparently not ( Read more... )

this morning the sun came out ( Read more... )

last night i met harryette mullen. she's pretty famous for a poet so i was excited and set out to interview her. she didn't have time though, and some man rudely interrupted our conversation and the topic was sort of shrugged off. but she said we could do an email interview...meh, it's not really the same thing. i had come up with maybe ten ( Read more... )

the night before last i got home from school, put my pajamas on, made some tea, sat down on my couch and began to check my email. i look down at the floor and see a fucking mouse running across my room! there is no food in my room and it was hobbling like it was disabled or maybe because it had such big claws/hands/whatever you call a rodent's ( Read more... )

thank god! my brain is back to normal. i no longer feel like it's slowly bleeding and my balance is back to normal. phew ( Read more... )

we have had a good week of peace. no new mouse droppings, no pitter-patter, squeak-y squeak. until this morning. around 6am lindsey emerged from her room into the kitchen to find three, yes 3 mice together on the floor scrambling to get out of view. and they actually jumped OVER the traps! they have outsmarted the traps! pest control came back, but ( Read more... )

dear lj ( Read more... )