Letters of Choice

Dear Barak Obama,

I voted for you two days ago. Please stop emailing me.

Also, for some reason, I had several seven year olds tell me, in complete horror, that if you get elected, you are going to knock down all of their churches. This seems to be bad form, and a really ridiculous idea. I cant imagine that they would invent such a thing, so perhaps you might want to check in and see what that other guy is saying about you, again. You never can tell what he’s going to say next.

Still already voted for you!
alianora

PS. Is it bad that there were people out front of the voting place who handed me a list of conservative judges to vote for, that I used as a list of who NOT to vote for? Because I felt a little guilty when they waved so cheerfully and shouted, ‘God bless you!’ after me. Am I going to a hell I dont believe in for this?

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Knocking, Knocking on My Chamber Door

It’s starting.

I can feel it.

The desire to stay up late Sunday night, to put off going to bed as long as possible.

Because the sooner I go to sleep, the sooner the day arrives. If I stay up, the day won’t come, right?

I can feel it.

The irritation, the urge to snap and snarl at my husband, at my kid, Monday morning, because it’s Monday and it’s here, and I have to go back.

I really fucking hate being a teacher.

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Most Displeasing

I cant decide if I want to cry laughing or get the brain bleach.

I should have much else to say, but it’s all cranky and angry with jazz hands and stompy feet, so I’ll leave you with that mental image up there. Have fun!

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Move Along Monahan

Racher held me down with her very pregnant belly and threatened to give birth on me if I didn’t do a meme. Or maybe she just tagged me. Whatever.

Anyway.

Six Uninteresting Things About Me.

Why uninteresting, I wonder? Im sure I can find something fascinating about myself – just let me check my pockets and go through the couch cushions.

1. My ears are pierced with four different holes. One “set”, one extra in my right ear, and a cartilage piercing in my left ear. None of the earrings I wear on a daily basis match in the slightest, except for all being small and, with the exception of the malachite drop in my left ear, silver.

2. Bugs love me. Currently, we’re fighting a flea battle. Brandus has maybe 5 bites. Voldemort has zero. I have at least 50. I say they love me, but they could just be getting revenge for me being a bug stomping brat in another life. I certainly don’t bug stomp in this life – I get brandus to do it.

3. I’ve spent the last three days reading tutorials on how to make a pin cushion. Something which I could do in fifteen minutes requires approximately thirty six hours of psyching myself up for it.

4. If Voldemort had been a girl, he would have been named (no lie) Lily.

5. It amuses me greatly that my spellcheck no longer argues with me about the spelling of Voldemort. It used to offer such odd suggestions as voltmeter and, my personal favorite, Valdemar. I’m fairly certain there is absolutely no reason for it to know how to spell the name of an imaginary country where horses talk and aren’t horses and where hot guys walk around with hawks on their shoulders, but you know, Im not going to argue. Mmmmm, Darkwind.

6. Word on the street..or, you know, in the school, whatever, is that it is very very possible that I will be a second grade teacher for the remainder of the year. Here’s the big thing, though, I’m not crying at the very thought. In fact, I’m thinking, Cool. Not, COOL! or AWESOME! but…cool.

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Blocks

Im not writing much lately.

I havent written any fiction – well, nothing of more than 100 words – in months. I barely blog here. I barely blog over at lj. I barely email people.

It’s not that I don’t have things to say – Fiction, I have ideas, but no motivation. LJ, everything I want to talk about is in Japanese. Here, I struggle to type things that arent strings of disconnected thoughts.

I know why I’m struggling, and it’s nothing incredibly shocking. We’ve moved, we’re broke, I’m stressed, I’m busy, I can barely find the braincells to scrape together to read things online, much less write more.

But, I’ve got some cool posts that exist only in my head. Like, the one where all the weird links that made my inner feminist stand up and say ‘howdy’ all showed up together on the internet in the space of a week. Or the funny stories of the weird things you overhear from second graders.

Boy: I accidentally kicked someone in the nuts!
Me: That must have hurt him.
Boy: It was a girl!
Girl: *large put upon sigh* Girls don’t HAVE nuts.
Boy: They don’t?

Or that fabulous new announcement post about my friend Mylan having her baby, who is to be Bellatrix to kiddo’s Voldemort. Or the fact that Racher both tagged me for a meme and should be 80 million months pregnant by now, and WHY hasn’t LG decided to join the world outside yet? Why?

But my brain is broken by stress and money and fleas and fevers and the fact I still have no bookshelves and have to unpack my entire suitcase full of books anytime I’m looking for something. Like now. When all I really want is one of my journals. It’s in there on the bottom, I know it.

So, I will continue posting. Limpingly. Haltingly. And maybe when this stint as a second grade teacher is over, we have a million bucks, and I’ve stopped watching television in Japanese, we can get back to the fun stuff.

Like this: The My Little Pony Project. Awesome

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