i woke from my dream about how my left leg had suddenly grown an inch longer than my right leg to the sound of the phone ringing.
fuuucckkk, i thought. who in the hell calls this early on a monday morning? can’t the caller see that i don’t have to work? that i am practicing for [...]

How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
i’ve been a loud and proud eggers’ fan since my days as a young journalism student in wisconsin. see, when i was in college one of my profs. got me a subscripiton to ‘Might’ magazine. she said that this was the magazine i needed to write for once i [...]

i loved red dawn, but only because it had c. thomas howell in it. he was ponyboy curtis in the outsiders (which was my all-time favorite movie for too many years to count. . . ‘let’s do it for jonny!’). and well, i loved c. thomas howell so much that i used to walk up [...]

i couldn’t even paint on a fake smile this morning. gravity has robbed me of my grin. this news of sister #4’s impending engagement has shaken me up more than i had anticipated. i talked a little bit with sister #3 about the news and the upcoming proposal and all that.
“since jose is her first [...]

i just found out that during our annual thanksgiving game-a-thon, no way jose is going to ask sister #4 to marry him. he’s got the ring and everything. sister #2 just let me in on the secret. i’m pretty sure the whole thing is going to make me burst into tears. i love jose, he’s [...]

i really did not want to go to bookclub last night, not at all. see, FFJ couldn’t make it and i had never attended a bookclub without her. it was her bookclub and she invited me to join. so i just always think of the women in the bookclub as FFJ’s friends and i’m just [...]

it’s hard to write here when the only thing i want to talk about and tell you about is exactly the one thing that i cannot write and/or talk about. it frustrates me and leaves me, well constipated. because everything else seems so lame when i think about all the BIG BIG things that i [...]

while i am most thankful that pms decided to not rear its ugly head until the day before my period, it doesn’t make today any more enjoyable. in fact it’s downright excruciating. i’m one long, large, exposed nerve. a nerve that is constantly on the verge of either bursting into tears or biting your head [...]

by now, i’m sure everyone’s heard about artist Chris cobb color coordinating a bookstorein San Fran. If not, you can see some photos of the results. i sorta want to do this to my own collection now.

one of the westernerds was talking about how he was trying to make his 2-year-old son feel better about the dark. which reminded me of my own battles with being scared of the dark.
first, as a kid, i completely convinced myself that monsters were afraid of the dark, just like me. this only worked for [...]

last night, while listening to P.Y.T. by michael jackson and sweating blood over my craptastic writing, i reached for a tub of lip spooj. i have a tendency to chew on my lips when thinking really hard, leaving my mouth dry and cracky and wholly unkissable.
so i groped about my desk looking for some [...]

my horoscope for today:
Today is a day to be brave, jodi. The planetary energies are such that this is an ideal day for taking risks. If you’ve been thinking of asking that special someone out for a causal coffee, or maybe even dinner, don’t hesitate to act on your desire. All signs indicate that you [...]

open blank word document
stare at it for 15 minutes willing the words to come
type 13 words, check e-mail
delete 13 words, go check westernerd message board
put on matthew sweet’s “Someone to Pull the Trigger”
write 45 words
take off sweater
pace around the apartment running fingers through your hair
write 66 words right in a row real quick like before [...]

during all my napping, birthday partying, laundry-avoiding, and book reading, i’ve managed to watch Before Sunset three times this weekend. i think it’s official, i’m in love. i thought i was in love with Before Sunrise but i see now my feelings for that movie was nothing more than a schoolgirl crush.
Before Sunset is the [...]

don’t be fooled by those cute little teeth. he knows how to use them. but god i love him.