The Place We Were: Snapshot of September 12
The 9/12 Project cites a level of unprecedented unity following 9/11, and a desire to restore the nation back to "the place we were on September 12th." Beyond its website's limited and naturally...
View ArticleI am 28 today
Today is my 28th birthday, which is why I suppose I am being more reflective at the moment about my life and where I might be heading. I’ve relocated from a small, strange tourist town in Oregon to...
View ArticleOn working during the holidays
Once in a while here a diary or series of comments will detail how outrageous it is of evil corporate goons to make us slave wage hourly types work on holidays. Well, I’ll be working on all the...
View ArticleYour First Political Memory
The end of 2009 approaches, and while many are engaging in year-in-review pieces, I’d like you to go back further and answer the following question for me: what is your first political memory? Follow...
View ArticleWYFP? Passing Through the Dark Edition
WYFP (which stands for What's Your Fucking Problem) is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite...
View Article"We'll Beat You With A Bullet": Notes on tea parties, militias, and conspiracy
A man I did not recognize reached under his seat, pulled out a hangman's noose and shook it in my face, and said, 'This is a message for you.' Immediately afterwards, another man I did not recognize...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner?
Today is Mom's birthday. I've been missing family lately. Whenever I smell something close to what she'd cook while I was growing up, this feeling becomes more acute, so I've been thinking about how...
View ArticleWYFP: Setting sun edition
WYFP (What's Your Fucking Problem) is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages,...
View Articleif daylight will be better
I wish you would stop asking me to enforce policy that is illegal or has no basis in reality. "How old do you have to be to check in?" you screeched over and over, to the tune of five emails and a dry...
View ArticleFighting insomnia
My doctor tells me to get up when this happens and do other things besides stay in bed, so I'll associate my bed with sleep and not frustration. I forget to darken the window because that's the cat...
View ArticleI might have dreamt
My roommate gives me water and medicine. Pills stop pain, but like all headaches, the space of the pain remains. I can feel the shape of it, sometimes curved or jagged, a strange pulsing edge.
View ArticleI died because of Kroger.
I work full time as a night clerk at a hotel. To supplement this income and to use my insomnia for something productive, I secured a job at a branch of the local library. At times, we have job help,...
View ArticleThe day and the night and the day
I haven’t diaried in some time for a couple of reasons. The first is immersion at a new hotel. It’s a boutique style environment, with fewer rooms than the behemoth property I was employed with before....
View ArticleOne second at a time.
You know what? I can’t write today. I mean, I’m writing now insomuch as now has a particular measure in time and for the moment space and I notice even years after I gave up the ghost on studying...
View ArticleThis Is Your TSA
From this article Sean Shanahan, 45, of Winthrop is being held on $50,000 cash bail following his arraignment in East Boston District Court. He is charged with statutory rape, enticement of a child and...
View ArticlePlease Stop Touching Me
Hello there! How can I assist you? Yes, it's three in the morning and the bars are closed. You're drunk and want a room? Great, I have a good rate for you. Want some food? Fabulous. I will make you a...
View Articlea follow up
Hello everyone. My previous diary made the rec list after I was away from a computer. I only have access while at work and I wanted to follow up with those of you who posted questions and comments, but...
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