2003-05-02 5:30 p.m. I got home, hung up my coat, leaned my wet umbrella up against a wall, kicked off my shoes, put my cellphone in its charger, then I sat down to check my email and got right back up. My keyboard was covered with ants. I think I said something like "Good God!" or something like that, which is a bit out of character for me. Usually, I'd say "Fuck!" or something, but I've been rereading these comics from my childhood (all musty from the closet) and heroes were always "Great Something!" or "Good Something Else!" whenever a disaster was happening. I just picked up on it. I can't help it. Linguistically, I'm impressionable. After watching "The Joy-Luck Club" for weeks I was saying "Ay-yaah!" in that frustrated Chinese way and I'm not even a little Chinese. Anyway, when I saw the ants, I was disgusted and I said something weird and comic book-related but the point is that there were ants. All over my keyboard. The first thing I did was swear off eating in front of the computer because apparently the crumbs in the keyboard situation had gotten out of hand. Then I noticed that a word processing program was open on the computer's desktop. This is what it said: "hello we are ants we live here & wanted to ask that you buy more sugar we are full for now but will be hungry later it has taken 592 of us to type this up & 4 hours and many have died but we love you so please help" I tell you this so you understand why, when I talk to you, I talk so fast and all my sentences run together. I can't help it, it's just stuck in my head, this way that the ants write. Soon, something else will come along and I'll talk more normal, I promise. |
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