42 Dreams of Arizona Bay

I’m barely keeping it in. The rage. The sarcastic remarks. The feeling that I’m smarter than a monkey or some of these alpha gorillas who’ve been making my life miserable.
Music from my iPod helps, soothes the savage monkey. I have a mellow playlist that is supposed to help me calm down. But it’s not enough. [...]

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I feel like I’ve peeled back the layers of myself, gone back to a different time, a different person.
I recently finished the process of cleaning my closet, finally going through loads of stuff I should’ve thrown out a couple of moves ago.
I was learning the process of letting go.
Some of my stuffed animals, gone. But they were ones [...]

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$10. Price of one ticket to see Snakes on a Plane. Was it worth it? Not in the normal sense. Certainly, the movie was campy, and Without a Map and I giggled and whispered from minute one, enough so that I was sure someone was going to tell us to be quiet. But I think they understood. Anyway, [...]

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Tots. As in tater. An item of food that tastes almost good cold as leftovers as hot.
Pizza, of course. Why heat it up when you can eat it cold? Pizza doesn’t reheat well anyway, unless you do it in the oven. And I’m far to lazy to do that. So microwaving just makes it soggy. [...]

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Quiet. It’s the library. People are reading, browsing, studying.
That’s the library of old.
A trip to a branch library yesterday reminded me how much libraries have changed. No longer must you live in fear of making a sound. Conversations at normal volume are acceptable.
Overheard the next aisle over:
“That Louis L’Amour was a good writer.”
“He wrote some [...]

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The answer to life, the universe and everything
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Minutes spent on jury duty
6:30
Time I got up so I could get ready for jury duty
12
Times I worried I’d forget about jury duty or sleep through the alarm
8:00
Time jury duty was supposed to start, only the doors were locked
8:02
Doors are unlocked, and I drift through security, determined to [...]

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