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    Friday, November 30, 2007

    The truth comes out, again

    addie: slut
    addie: slut
    addie: slkut
    addie: slut
    addie: slut
    addie: no
    addie: slut
    addie: slut
    addie: slut
    me: question
    me: what do you think of me
    addie: i think
    addie: youa e beautiful
    addie: and amazing
    addie: smart
    addie: sarcastic and funny
    me: and a slut
    addie: you have pretty eyes i relaly like them as much as you dont
    addie: and good lips
    me: it wasn'ta serious question
    addie: ohh
    addie: ...im gay...

    -- 06:59 PM


    Tuesday, November 27, 2007

    Dream interpreters, on your mark

    As the whole world knows, I have skin problems that just never go away forever. After the 10-year run of acne, I believe I am in the final leg of that race, because aside from a few zits now and then, I do not wake up dreading the mirror for that reason, because they have always disappeared by the next morning. Still, my face is not going quietly. A full year after going off Accutane, it continues the rebellion. You do not know dry skin. YOU DO NOT KNOW DRY SKIN. Okay? Because you don't. You poor baby, your face may feel icky and hurty in the winter, but does it look it? Is it flaking off? Do you have to spend the good part of your shower rubbing at your cheeks and mouth and nose as hard as possible because no exfoliator is going to make a difference? And then put on moisturizer, wait, put it on again, wait, put it on again, okay go makeup go before it dries--oh damn, okay, put it on again--and then--then--yes, I think I should make it until this afternoon? Okay? Right.

    I finally bought miracle wash, and within a week I was practically cured. It's amazing. My skin is soft and pretty and no more pores smiling up at anyone, and everyone told me at Thanksgiving how grown up I looked. Renay said, "You have skin like a movie star!"

    ME.

    But I think my self-esteem boost is getting to me, because now I'm having these weird dreams. Two nights in a row, among other things happening, was this:

    1. I popped a pimple on my cheek and it formed the biggest crater ever, so big that I could FEEL THE BREEZE IN IT.

    2. My face was great where I washed it, except right up by my widow's peak, because I tend to avoid that area as it's annoying to get the face wash out of my hair. I woke up the next morning with huge, huge blackheads. Enormous. But these weren't ordinary blackheads. There was a cluster of five or six, and I pulled them out of my forehead with tweezers, and they were like thick black hairs an inch long, and then they left MORE CRATERS.

    I like, can't get these images out of my head. I'm really grossed out. I felt like I had to share that with the world, because these things are just too much for me to handle on my own.

    -- 06:48 PM


    Thursday, November 22, 2007

    By the pace, I guess chipmunks

    I know I'm back home when I can't sleep because some animals are running foot races all over my damn roof. Wee little foot races.

    -- 12:31 AM


    Saturday, November 17, 2007

    There was an old lady of skin and bones

    I have something to confess.

    In somewhere like second grade, Mrs. Farmer had us play a game where each flip form got a word and then had to think of a song that contained it in the lyrics, like "red" or "bridge." My group got "grass," and obviously we were going to lose. Until I piped up about a song called "The Grass Is Always Greener (on the Other Side of the Fence)," and we got the point.

    It wasn't actually a song.

    I just sang those words to "Just a Spoonful of Sugar (Makes the Medicine Go Down)."

    Those fake lyrics get stuck in my head far too often, possibly out of guilt, or merely a testament to my godlike lyricisms.

    To my fans, I'm sorry.

    -- 07:17 PM


    Thursday, November 15, 2007

    No easy answers

    Other people eating my ice cream has pushed me into tears.

    Reading about Columbine for class has left me awake for hours in shakes and thinking about mortality.

    I've never been less excited about things happening in my life.

    I can't think of a single thing that would make me feel better.

    No one has seen me vulnerable in a very, very long time. I think that is what's wrong with me.

    -- 07:17 PM


    Sunday, November 11, 2007

    Sunday morning

    I got up early, dressed amazing, went down for pancakes, then went to church. Me walking down St. Thomas More Rd. was a picture of perfection.

    Still, all I want to do is get home next week, wear a kitty cat for a pretty hat, stare my dog in the eye, make some money, and go shoe shopping.

    -- 09:38 PM


    Thursday, November 8, 2007

    Not coming very clean

    It is generally something I try to deny by placing blame on things like the weather, the altitude, my health, but there's no getting around it today. My nose is bleeding because I picked it too much.

    There.

    -- 10:09 PM


    Sunday, November 4, 2007

    WhudafxupLOL

    I got hit on while waiting for a bus by a guy who would have been cute if he had had some confidence. Granted, he did strike up conversation with me out of nowhere, but I've had some less than pleasant experiences with guys who do that, who go right for the A/S/L rather than, you know, just regular small talk. These are the only types I seem to attract (which, since the incident, has got me thinking a lot about what exactly about me gives awkward boys the wild idea that hey, that girl? I bet she would like to know everything about you, especially the part about your dream to sing a capella).

    I safely dodged the question of my name by interrupting him with, "Wow this bus is taking forever," which left no more room for any conversation. The end. This is as far as we go.

    He lifted his cigarette. "People always tell me I need to quit."

    I nodded. "You should. They're not good for you."

    "Yeah, my family isn't happy about it. My sister is always saying I should quit. I'm visiting her tonight."

    "Oh, that's nice of you."

    "Yeah... she's at Tufts."

    "Good school."

    "Yeah... I'm only going to do this for a few months though," he said, holding his hand out again.

    "Really."

    "Yeah."

    "You really think you're only going to smoke for a few months."

    "Yeah?"

    "You're really going to just beat the system and count on not getting addicted?"

    He looked at me suspiciously. "Are... are you pre-med or something?"

    Yes, I am enrolled in the most difficult program at this fine institution, doing very important research at the expense of very substantial amounts of money, all for a concept that could have been explained by this toolbag.

    -- 01:34 PM


     

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