We had a stained glass window set into the front door. On the day it snowed, I remember looking through rose colored glass to see my roommate’s ancient convertible car under an inch of snow. I liked it when strangers saw me coming out of this charming door. The door opened onto a narrow hallway. …
In Order of Awfulness . . .
Patrick is applying to several other schools now, in light of our recent REJECTION (the word rejection outlined in bright red light bulbs, the bulbs pulsing with a buzzing !You’re a Loser! sound on each pulse). (REJECTION is easier to take Warner Bros Cartoon style). I won’t be too specific, and may delete this in…
Insane
Half the class has received their grade for Contracts*, and the other half has not, and in a fit of impatience/insanity – I can’t decide which – I’ve checked my grades 5 times in that last 3 minutes, wondering if now is the second when they loaded my grade? How ’bout now? Now? How ’bout…
Must Get Up and Do
I have a resume to refine, if I’m going to get a (very short) summer job as a research assistant for an employment law professor. Ironically, as deeply as I loathed the ways in which my employers twisted employment law to further their evil ends, that avenue now seems my best hope for a job…
Another Year
Another year of crappy Christmas, birthdays, anniversary. No movies out, no dinners out, no relaxing on the grocery budget, no new clothes, no new toys for jack, no nursing bras for me, no nursing rocker. More of the same, living close to the bone, agonizing over every purchase, terrified of a car failure, a health…