I am not…
October 31st, 2005 at 10:40pm |
26. I am not a monkey.
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Year gone by
October 29th, 2005 at 12:19pm |
A year has gone by. A year of blogging. A year of changes. Some frustrations. Some culture shock. Lots of exploration.
I moved to Fresno, California a year ago, leaving behind my family, many friends and the region I’d grown up in. I left a job that I was irritated by, though comfortable in. But I [...]
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EEEEEEK!
October 28th, 2005 at 12:42am |
No one told me there were tarantulas in this area. I might’ve given considerable thought to not moving here if I’d known I would encounter tarantulas just crawling across the road.
Note to self: ask about spider population. (And I don’t think anyone mentioned the healthy black widow population, either.)
How I found out:
I took a [...]
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Pardon the mess
October 26th, 2005 at 7:12pm |
Pardon the mess. Won’t bother you with long explanations.
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This time last year
October 24th, 2005 at 4:15pm |
This time last year, I was finishing packing, cleaning out my old life in Michigan. Without a Map’s Heather was kind enough to help me finish up, on her birthday.
Today is Heather’s birthday. Let us all wish her a happy birthday.
And, btw, admire my cake. If this isn’t my first from scratch cake, I bet [...]
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Spontaneous multiplication
October 23rd, 2005 at 1:22pm |
Have you ever noticed that no one ever seems to buy Smarties? They just seem to appear before Halloween, and disappear sometime after. Quietly, without fuss. Not like my beloved Cadbury Mini-Eggs. I mourn their passing after Easter; seek them out in discount bins.
No one seems to miss Smarties, but neither do we turn them [...]
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Darkening sky
October 22nd, 2005 at 3:32pm |
The sky fades in layers, in the iridescent colors of an opal.
First a rich orange hovering at the horizon, tinging the clouds. Red, then darkening purple. To a dark blue and another band of clouds.
We’re trying to beat the darkness. We want to get out of the hills. We barely make it. The light hangs [...]
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