Rhinoceros Running


March 21, 2008, 10:42 pm
Filed under: random thoughts

super-simple-nablopomo-08.jpg March theme: lists

Reasons besides being cold that I am sick to death of winter this year:

1. My apartment sits back off the street, and my bedroom window looks onto the alley. I am sick to death of listening to the snow removal trucks in the parking lot of the condo building across the alley. The scraping of the giant blade against the pavement, and the way the driver revs the engine over and over and over again is driving me mad.

2. The guy down the alley will get up tomorrow morning and come out to shovel snow down the alley. Again, a piece of metal scraping against the pavement. Over and over and over again.

3. People put salt on their sidewalks that burns dog paws.

4. Whenever the weather is at all inclement, especially when there’s snow, traffic here snarls up. Tonight, the bus was literally a traveling sardine can. On the bright side of this, people were decent to each other, and there was a bit of merriment, even.



March 21, 2008, 10:35 pm
Filed under: Friday Fill-Ins

friday fill-in 

Friday, March 21, 2008

Friday Fill-In #64

1. _____ is so exciting!

NOTE: question number one here has left me completely flummoxed. I suppose that’s one of the perils of adulthood, there aren’t that many things that actually really excite me the way things did when I was little, and everything was relatively new. Now I’m all jaded and stuff, and I know Santa doesn’t exist, and the tooth fairy was made up, too, and I’m sure that before long, someone’ll prove to me that the birthday bunny is a lie, too.
2. Strawberry fields are something I don’t remember having seen, although I am familiar with the Beatles song.
3. Flourless chocolate cake sounds like it would taste delicious–but it’s not!
4. Why does warm chocolate cake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and hot fudge make me feel so good?!
5. Angkor Wat is something I’ve always wanted to see.
6. It’s sad when the junkies fall asleep on the el.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to playing scrabble online and sleeping, tomorrow my plans include therapy and sleeping and Sunday, I want to sleep and stay here in Chicago, but instead I’ll get on the train and go visit my relatives for Easter, which is just an excuse to overeat since we are not religious and don’t celebrate the real meaning of this holiday!