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• Summer Always Starts Monday Squared

  June 1, 2021

  Not to pick on Hubbin but he doesn't do holidays well because they are never populated with the midwestern family members that can only live in his head. My "whatever the hell it is" was in full flare Saturday and it was all I could do to crawl out of bed and follow him to…

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• Hide it under your mattress?

  May 26, 2021

  Weird advice from the POC of the Creative Writing dept when I tried to find out what my 27 y/o English degree was worth. It wasn't really advice so much as a little crack in the facade of a stranger. Before we were done she had outlined a full year of indentured servitude and navel-gazing…

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• Monday message of no

  April 19, 2021

  I made it into town early this morning for the last round of allergy shots for another month. I dread that South Hill location. Some genius decided no more free parking across the street but did not provide more non-free parking so I always end up parking a block or two away and climbing the…

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• Whoa, scary road trip plans begin

  April 14, 2021

  I was supposed to go to Wisconsin a year ago. It was supposed to be ruminant and speculative. It wasn't meant to be scary and infected. It wasn't meant to be an add-on to somebody else's thing. But Hubbins Aunt has liver cancer and he's melting down because he wants to be there NOW even…

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• Don’t pet the sweaty things

  April 9, 2021

  It was such a dumb thing. A "friend" thought to tell me I couldn't discuss a certain topic in light of real things going on. Apparently, you cannot call out your peers on silly stuff. There will be no jokes here. Yes, a petty male type once again telling the little lady none of that…

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• The Rite of First Rejection

  April 6, 2021

  I know I have nothing to say about myself lest it detracts from the work. In a world where everything format matters the thing arrives in a format, I would never have given my blessing. Now the bots send back a reply with a condescending tone. Better to make big mistakes and get them over…

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• No fool’in

  April 1, 2021

  Yesterday I got Wu his first Trumpvirus shot, reassuringly delivered by the local fire chief, and was mentally congratulating myself on the completion of 200,000 words about the lockdown of 2020. He never got out of the car and he also didn't vagal. 30 minutes later my phone rings in the middle o...

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• OOPH!

  March 18, 2021

  Where the hell have I been? I got hyper absorbed in getting my "Trump virus" cure and spiraled down into a hole of navel-gazing that it took a message from my "imaginary friend" to shake loose. That's a real person. I haven't actually gone full 5 year old. It's just the people I've surrounded mys...

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• FOMO ya ya

  February 5, 2021

  Ok, no choice but to get over my case of the yips and get back to screaming at the Dragon. 55 pages today and I just have to stop. It's like running marathons. Started watching a documentary about Paradise California. So sad. Just go downstairs and work a little bit more on your weird version&hel...

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