randomosity

What sucks

• The heat bringing the bugs out of the wall. I have seen a roach dying on my floor as well as two spindly legged spiders peeking from holes in the wall of the stairwell. Shudder. • The fact that I am actively avoiding getting my car’s oil changed. • Boys and the way they revert to acting like 15-year-olds when within two feet of breasts. • Knowing that I have to be at the…

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television wtf

Perhaps if she punched her husband in the face it would have been more appropriate?

One of the hazards of working a night job is that you’re around the house during the day’s most insipid television programming, which I gobble up like any good lardy couch potato. Sometimes I catch myself watching the baby block of shows on TLC, mouth gaping in horror and disbelief. During A Baby Story, I usually turn the volume way down. Childbirth sure does sound dirty sometimes, don’t it? Anyway, one of the dozen baby…

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project 365

Day 113 — Sunburn

I wanted to title this “Striped With Radiation,” but I figure that joke loses its punch after you use it two other times in titles, right? Ugh, this sucks. I slept with cold, wet washcloths draped over my arms. I can’t stop thinking about lowering myself down into a tub of ice and sitting there until every last piece melts around me. I have to laugh derisively at myself when I look at my legs…

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Memphis project 365

Day 112 — Earth Day

I’m on fire. My arms are a sickening shade of deepening pink. They throb with life, with blood, with heat. Ha, sorry. That was starting to sound like crappy internet poetry, and I’ve sworn off that for a while. What I’m trying to say is that I got a heaping helping of UV radiation today, and that my idiot ass didn’t even apply sunblock until I’d been outside in a tank top for three hours.…

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