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Monthly Archives: December 2009

merry merry days ahead

Monday, December 21, 2009

Everybody, listen up. Elsie would like you to pay attention to what I have to say. (Thank you, Elsie Pants. You are so good at getting everybody’s attention—you have a knack for turning heads. Now, what did I want all that attention for again? Oh right.) Everybody, please share in our moment. Thank you for [...]

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blog block

Thursday, December 17, 2009

I’m at a blog stand still. Writer’s block. I have nothing to say. This is when I should go to my writing books to be reminded of those adorable exercises where you write about your childhood lunches or dress up as a pirate before sitting down to write, disturbing everything that is regular and thus [...]

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the doctor weighs in

Friday, December 11, 2009

This is the conversation we had before Simon became a doctor. Go figure. SIMON. If you died, I would become that. THE GIRL. What? SIMON. Him. THE GIRL. Who? SIMON. That lying down cyclist. We stare as the lying down cyclist passes at a clip. THE GIRL. You would submit Elsie to that? SIMON. She [...]

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a decembery fantabulous

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 6-12, 2009 WHAT I’M READING: My mother’s thesis. I’m all over Margaret Avison. Damn, can she string words together! (Yes, we are in the throws of PhD madness over at the Davey household; Simon expects to narrowly beat my mother to the finish.) God. God. Throwingness of PhDing over. Under. [...]

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“i’m feeling a little wild…”

Friday, December 4, 2009

Don’t mind me Mama. I’m a little giddy from all that carrot juice you insisted I ingest. Now would you mind moving? I have some business with your tooth brush and all your expensive makeup brushes. You’re really good at sharing, by the way. Love love, Elsie. p.s. Are these breakable?

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fancy pants humanity

Thursday, December 3, 2009

A blah Thursday needs fancy bits. Here are my fancy bits: Two very attractive female cops on the beat stopping to get their lunch. I wonder what they go for in take-out? Their white plastic take-out bags dangle and I’m curious. Did they remember the napkins? The runner in the turquoise spandex. Her turquoise bum [...]

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