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Monthly Archives: August 2005

The sky is falling

Everything has gone crazy. My sister’s gone off to the Carribean to elope, my old roomie is going off to Cairo for a year and a half in two weeks, New Orleans has been flattened by what appears to be a giant, pissed off water monster. I was bored at work Monday morning, so instead [...]

9/11 Oral Histories

As usual, not much to do at work so I’m reading through several transcripts released by the NY Times of interviews with firefighters and medics at ground zero, conducted a few weeks afterwards. Most feelings I’ve had about that particular day have been numbed due to all the resultant jingoism and fearmongering. But reading through [...]

I am bored at work and I have nothing to do and I’m bored…

…so I have written a story. I didn’t like any of the prompts I found online; they were all things like “lol describe your worst experience” or “write about three objects in your room,” and I am not quite bored enough to write a story about my computer, desk, and Nalgene bottle. This morning Quark, [...]

Bitches have taken over my parking lot!

…And I’m not referring to the KU parking department this time. Last week, when I started work, the parking lot closest to my building was blissfully empty. Even if I happened to roll in late, closer to 10:00 than to 9:00, I would always be guaranteed a spot in the first four yellow spaces. Imagine [...]