ratsonjulia

vaguely wondering how the foil flavor pouches get into packets of top ramen...

human hands? robot hands? some wierd unholy combination of the two?

the same time & location as the crunchy noodle patty--or in a different top ramen factory, far far away?

maybe top ramen packets are just BORN that way---

poking around this morning looking for new songs to practice on the guitar, I came across the following lyrics:

Still, the night, & decked with starlight,
And the frost burned like fine sand.
You remember the time I did teach you
To hold a pistol in your hand?

In fur jacket & beret,
Clutching a hand granade,
A girl whose skin is velvet
Ambushes a...
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a couple of days ago I recieved an envelope from what I initially thought was the RPGA, or Role Playing Gamers Associaition, which puzzled me a bit since I haven't played a role-playing game since my sophomore year in high school (& then I was puzzled a bit further as to how long that acronym has lain dormant in my troubled mind)--but on opening it...
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tonight a friend called from San Fransisco & held her phone up for me during a Lucinda Williams show.

how cool is that?

INTERESTING OCCURENCE AT WORK YESTERDAY:

the post that I've been assigned to over the past few months provides gun coverage for one of the chow halls & the property hallway (since there are very few inmates in either area during my shift, my presence is mostly symbolic)

once a week we have what's called "train"--actually a bus that transfers inmates from one institution to another...
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the magnum opus for NaNoWriMo is gurgling out of the spigot at a pretty satisfactory rate, thanks for asking.

thus far, what I have going is a sort of Bildungsroman (or roman a clef, if you will--it just depends on what kind of a mood I'm in when I commence to typin)--a touching & chilling coming-of-age-tale of a young girl in suburban New Jersey &...
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I was something of a computer geek in my freshman year in high school, & then I sort of realized that I was, indeed, a computer geek & decided that if I was ever going to get girls to talk to me something would have to change, so I dropped the computer stuff & was just a regular ole geek for a while.

throughout the...
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I've been subscribing to netflix for maybe 6 months now & think it's a great & wonderful thing for one such as me who lives in a rural area & likes the types of movies that just aren't available for rent around here (by which I mean "Just About Anything That's worth Watching", not just obscure &/or foreign movies. as an example: a couple of...
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from the continuing adventures of "Me & the Cat I Was Supposed to Catsit that Ran Away 2 Days After Owner's Departure"

Episode XI: this mornings email to the owner:

[there are many references to my inability to whistle. let me explain: I can't whistle. at a previous job at a construction site I was forced to, whenever a "Hot Mamma" would walk by, carve...
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"necessito" by some girls;

good bouncy song for a grey day--I caught them in Chicago a couple of weeks ago & it was a pretty good show but the audience was pretty sluggish & sparse--