NOT KEEPING SCORE

Taking no prisoners. Including herself.

Archive for July, 2009

The (DPT) Trial – Kafkaesque Bureaucracies in Full Effect

Written to the DPT of SF in response to received parking ticket in SF Public Library parking lot:

29 July 2009

To Whom it May Concern:

I pay this ticket with extreme disappointment. Read more…

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10 is a Magic Number

Wow….Wow. Wow.

There are a lot of clichés about what high school reunions are like — a sick glory in revisiting painful teenage dynamics with people whose faces you may remember, names you no longer do, while awkwardly catching up in pithy sentences about what each of you have been up to for the past 10 years.

“Me? Oh, you know… school, job, travel… just living the dream.”

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A Simple, True Update

I’ve been dragging my feet on posting, mainly because so much change is going on, I don’t exactly know where to start. That, and my ebbing/flowing anxiety about writing something somewhat entertaining/interesting/readable prevents me from posting until I have an “angle” (thank you CCSF Journalism 10A class).

Aborting that, I will simply write something mediocre/simple/true. Read more…

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Monday To Do List (True Story)

  • Find childhood diary for Mortified this Fri/Sat
  • Finish one-woman-show script by Wednesday
  • Make up story re: “what I’ve been up to” for 10-year reunion to avoid actually having to talk about myself
  • Find New Mexico sublet for August
  • Call Robin Williams
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