Tag: Dad
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SHUT. UP.
Not you. Me. So, I guess I just wasn’t looking in the right place. Here’s the link to the Austin Chronicle’s Top Ten Austin Websites, in case you want to read what they said about me. I’m feeling much better today. I remembered this nasal spray stuff that my doctor had given me last year…
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in my defense
sorry so sloppy Immm-hmmm. Well. Alright. Dear Patrick, It seems that there was a gathering of journallers who all got together to play Cranium because they had heard that I enjoyed the game. I understand that you were one of them. It also seems that you and your friends had an easy time with the…
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conversations
i can hear the holidays approaching Let’s see, last night…. yoga, talk to my mom… oh, and about five hours of Resident Evil 3. That’s it. That’s all we’ve been doing. We bought it the night before we went out of town (which means we played the game pretty much until it was time to…
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the wall
or why i’m afraid of wallpaper I got the part. Starting August 1st I will be rehearsing for Polaroid Stories at Hyde Park Theatre, playing one Skinhead Girl. We are going to have a “dialogue” about what my hair will look like. So, for now, I’ll just keep wearing it long, hoping that I’ll get…
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self-torture
through my amazing memory There’s a part of my brain that is sectioned off to remember things that hold absolutely no value for me. For some reason, periodically, since I was a child, I’ll be doing the most mundane thing, and my brain will say to me, “I’m going to remember this moment for the…
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the name game
how i became pamie My name was almost Amanda. That’s what my mother wanted to name me. Amanda. Well, maybe I would have been called Mandy. I knew a few Amandas growing up, one of which got the horrible nickname “May-May.” (I’ve lived in the deep south, as you can see). My father was the…
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feeling valen-tiny?
keep calm, i gotcha covered Happy birthday, Dad. Happy birthday, President Lincoln. When I was a kid I thought that since my dad shared a birthday with Lincoln, then somehow I was related. To Lincoln, I mean, I knew I was related to my father. I thought that my people all came from log cabins…