She's sweet, but she's fucked up

Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Ready to get the hell out of here

My friend sent me a link to this website that is selling "Save Mary Kate" t-shirts and bumper stickers. They even have a mouse pad. Is it wrong that I laugh at this? I should feel no shame, that was the website's intention in the first place, to make sick people like myself laugh. This would make more sense if I could remember the website. I'm sure you get the point. As I said earlier, I'm going to this creative non-fiction workshop tonight. I'm relatively excited, should be interesting. We'll see if I actually read anything of if I'll just act as a passive observer. Aren't most observers passive by definition? Why do I ask so many rhetorical questions? Okay, I do believe time has stopped. I looked at the clock an hour ago and it read "5:41" and I looked at it now..."5:43". Seriously, an hour passed in two minutes. It's something to do with the time-space continuum. I finally tracked down my college friend Ty today...well, almost tracked down, I have his number and left a message on his answering machine. It's weird that I spent 4 years seeing him pretty much every week (every day when he dated my roommate freshman year) and then nothing. It was the saddest thing in the world to me that I didn't know what city he was living in, let alone if he was still in Texas. When he calls back, we can catch up on the past 2 years then not talk again for another year after that. That's the way it always goes, I've done the reconnect thing before, people. How will I recount the past year- I moved to LA, got a job, have this whole new life...but after I give the summary, there's no point in going into minor stories. He won't care about how drunk I was one night, or that a couple months ago I found myself at a bar talking to David from Roseanne. So much significant stuff (not the David from Roseanne thing, other stuff) has happened to me in the past year and I could probably sum it up in a few sentences...I'm all about the broad strokes. That's why I'm all about the email, I can type forever, but after talking for more than 15 minutes, my ear hurts from holding the phone and I gradually stop paying attention. I start planning my exit- will it be another call? time for dinner? an explosion outside my window? Any excuse will do, just get me off that phone. And this is why I can't keep in touch with people.
Reagan

1 Comments:

At 8:26 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

yay - you found ty(ler)! tell him i said 'hi'. and post about the creative workshop. you're an inspiration to us all!

smooches,
em

 

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