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Back from Portland with a bag of free books, and another of books I paid for. Had a Oaxacan dinner with someone called the Sweet Potato Queen. She forced expensive tequila on me and made me remove my tie.

Doc and I were able to stay together. No hiding. It was wonderful.
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made my reservations and i'm leaving on fridayfor the home of this here site, portland. pacific northwest book association conference. doc and i, getting in a car, and driving down for days of galleys, book rep dinners, author breakfasts, blah blah blah.

and powells! city of books! a whole city of them!

INKEDgirl...a photo here, lefthamd corner:

http://people.msoe.edu/~schierld/thenurses/index2.html

one of my prouder moments...or three of...
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mattereaterlad2:
last year:

i woke up a little late. there was a message on my voicemail about what had happened. i turned on the tv, and watched footage of the towers falling.

they ran a piece of video. the camera was a few blocks away. the video journalist was hugging next to a chain link fence. a wave of dust was approaching fast. fast. a couple of runners were right at the edge of it, trying to escape. and then, deep in the cloud, barely a shadow of a figure, i saw another runner. something lifted the figure, arms out, legs jerk, back arching, up. it lifted a couple of feet, the cloud overtook the camera, and the feed was lost.

i saw the same footage later. the last few seconds had been edited out.
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Doc and I went out this afternoon and bought cat furniture. That's just how far this whole thing has gone. I know own cat furniture.

What has happened to me?

Tonight, I drink beer and listen to Jesse Fuller and the Stooges. Doc has a get together with her girl-fancying girlfriends. I stay in and type.

The nieghbors are having a get together. They were...
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inkedgirl:
I'll be needing a picture to confirm/deny the Mike Myers theory. biggrin
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ahem...

WOO HOO!

www.ajprint.net/new.html
inkedgirl:
I really loved your story! Congrats on your publication. smile

Cute kitty! tongue~
inkedgirl:
I think your friend's idea for the manual would be great! Be sure and let me read it when you're done. biggrin
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Get to introduce SG favorite Chuck Palahniuk at his Seattle reading on the 27th. "Lullaby" is his best yet, you ask me. More ideas on every page then most writers have in entire books, scary, satirical, and about as romantic a book as he's written. They're all love stories, deep down. As Doc says, they just start with the proposition we're all fucked anyway, and...
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doc and i drove down to tacoma today to help a friend. he owns a bookstore, he's just moved, he needed shelvers. so, we got in the car and went down.

my day off, i'm shelving books.

know what? had a really great time. as doc said, it's so nice to be around something you love (books), to be doing a job because you enjoy...
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had way too much to drink last night. panix played the monks and supernova for me. doc and i sat together, held each other. she brought whiskey and coke to the table again and again. i snuggled in closer. she held me up. i love a girl who can drink me under the table. wonderful time, kind of disappearing into her in the dark, smoky...
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lil_tuffy:
I saw the dwarves ed hall flipper tour.

dwarves played for like twelve minute. blag got hit by a ceiling fan and was laid out on the bar.

hewho hit my friend in the head with a wine bottle and knocked him cold too,

rock n roll
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Casseroles! I've decided to make lots and lots of casseroles from now on.
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Doc and I were fighting. My fault. Things are better now.

I'm a cutter when drunk and frustrated. Forgot about that.
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oh jesus fucking god!

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!

my kindgdom for sleeping pills. or a hermitage.
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"When you have spent as long inside yourself as I have you learn a certain humility in the face of hardship. And then you learn it again. It takes years to become as softhearted and hopeful as I am. I had no business dancing with a young woman like that. I should have known better.

The heart is not only a lonely hunter, though it...
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went out to see the popular shapes, the spits and dead moon tonight. sometimes i forget just how a belly full of bourbon, and three chords can seduce me. graceland was hot and crowded. the drinks were stiff. amanda drove and pounded tequila. i bobbed to the bands, watched the crowd move left, move right, like waves breakig on shore and pulling back. what i...
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