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March 30, 2006

Grandpa Sam

I still can feel the weight of his body as I held his arm to steady him. The rasp of his unshaven beard over the softness of his cheek still prickles my lips where I kissed him goodbye on Sunday. His voice will echoe in my ears and on my answering machine forever. And I will always hold him in my heart, even though now his body has been taken from us. 1914-2006

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March 27, 2006

Made it

I'm alive. I will admit only to ending the night on an upnote, in that I wrestled a Navy SEAL and was beating him for at least part of the match.

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March 24, 2006

Bleargh!

Tonight, I am going to have the first event in my life wherein a group of my friends will attempt to get me as drunk as possible and then roll right past that mark. I'm hesitant to call it a "bachelor party", since that word conjures up all sorts of images involving strippers and ping pong balls and waking up without any pants in a foreign country that isn't Canada or Mexico [often considered to be U.S. North and U.S. South]. However, I suspect that this is the best word to describe a whole bunch of men (including S's brother and Dr. Torrie, both of whom I expect will help mitigate any truly egregious behaviors, and Enigmatic Female's roommate, B, who I suspect will exacerbate them all, possibly all on his own.) I know there is going to be dinner, and there is going to be highfalutin' lounging, but part of me is super nervous about whatever "other" there might be. I would say "call the cops if you don't hear from me in a day or two", but I post so incredibly infrequently that I should revise that number upward. So....call me, or check back here in a month and a half.

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March 20, 2006

It is sort of what it sounds like

Is it just me, or is "logorrhea" not just the best word ever?

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March 10, 2006

I Get Sprung

New Yorkers, tell me true: Have you heard the dulcet tones of birds twittering lately? You know, like spring might be here? My heart grew two sizes as a direct result of my first observed bird-caroling earlier this week. Absolutely music.

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March 5, 2006

Ah...Civilization

This evening, I apparently edged out a man who had been waiting for a taxi on a wintry street for a half hour. I didn't see him, and I saw the cab, ran around a corner and up a street to get it, only hearing voices behind me once S was getting into the cab. I must admit, however, I was much less inclined to ease off and ask S to get out of the cab once he'd elbowed me, called me an asshole and hit me with the open car door.

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March 2, 2006

This Message Brought to You...

...by AWW, the Awfully Worried Weatherpeople: Holy shit!!!! SNOW!!!!! SNOW EVERYWHERE!!!! It will drown you alive, hide your babies for a week, eat your car and make you wish you were born a polar bear! It will cover every living thing and everything that every living thing has ever created! It will be white and thick and it will be unlike anything you've ever seen before! It will be AWFUL. It will prevent you from being able to work, to play, to eat, to drink, to sleep, to wake, to do anything except bemoan the awful, awful whiteness that has befallen the Earth in this time of God's forsaking us! Run for your lives! It's SNOW!!!!

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