and wouldn't our mommies and daddies be proud at our ability to communicate? at the age of 25, able to pick up a phone and distill our lives into punchlines and stories and miscreant ruin dilapidant daydream wondrland intuitive rambles? half done as I always say, half done with the times and may they drive me out in a loud, old, American car into the cornfields the greenfields the strange old country avenues ofmy half-life 13 year old Iowa nightmare. May the dogs run out the fields, each with a gimp or deformity... may the large furry figure come to rescue me and carry me away.

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Best of 2009

So...

James and I compiled a list of the "best of" 2009. I thought it was a pretty good year, but looking down at this list that includes several ways to prepare eggs and one ubiquitous hateful board game, I somehow feel rather silly. I think I better make some plans for this year. We're four months in, and the breaks stopped working on the Taurus, I've started cutting James' hair, we've traded fantasy for the russians and picture books, and MJ is still dead.

Birthday: pickled eggs at Shooterz he said/she said Catan exravaganza

Party: Joe's Farewell Fish n Chips or ChristmasSlumberParty

Past-time: Settlers of Catan

Movie: Badlands or 3 Women -->

Album: Carter III
Song: Strange Overtones, She-Wolf (Loba), Drop the World, Ghost Riders

Book: ASOIF, Assassins, Being & Nothingness

New Friend: Alejandro, Jess, Ashley, Diana

New Item: MacBook, Loveseat

Creation: Cricket/Silver Coil, Hieroglyphs, my StregaNona puppet ----------------->

Food: poached eggs, Chipotle, olives

Car: 1994 Ford Taurus (again...?)

Events: Obama, Jackson died, back2school, Jamie's artshow
Trip: Down South New Orleans roadtrip or NorthShore
Quotes: "I'm so dedicated right now" "stack that shit till it falllls"
Existential Crisis: the night when I decided to quit school, sell my belongings, move to the Upper Peninsula... Michelle J. Fox's bad haircut that kept James from nursing school...
Being accosted by drunken evildoers (in general)