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  • Go vote! But only if you're voting for Obama

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    Damn, I’m all wired. I voted. I got my sticker. I left the polling place with a woman behind me cheering for Obama and I raised my hand up and pointed to the words leaving her mouth like a jet lifting into the sky. “YEAH, SHE KNOWS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT!” she yelled again. This…

  • Election Eve

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    We were escorted back to our car last night by two college girls driving a golf cart. They worked on tips, I suspect carting all the drunk college students around Old Town Scottsdale, so it’s only natural – since we were pretending to be college students. But when they picked us up they were arguing…

  • WTF were you thinking?

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    Yesterday, I pretended I was in college and had bottomless mimosas with a work friend, her sister and Pat Pat in Scottsdale the land of fake tan boobs, west coast hipsters and $800 massages. Let’s just say they are serious when they mean bottomless mimosas and this morning after downing water, tortilla chips and coffee,…

  • McDowell and Central

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    “They should put me down like a dog,” a woman said after she shuffled herself and walker past a protruding bike tire and sat down next to me on the light rail. She has cataracts, she said, and can’t hear well. She needed to get off at McDowell. She was having surgery next week. “You…

  • Be safe, dear friends. I'm willing you my blue skies

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    It’s strange not being anywhere near this hurricane and all the people we love are right in the path. If we hadn’t moved, we’d be preparing as well – although I’d still have to go to work and pat wouldn’t and wouldn’t get paid. So we’d both be grumpy about it. During Irene, when they…

  • Let's start yesterday over

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    Coffee in my paint-chipped to-go mug Lol Stein quote. Here we go: “If I believed in you the way others believed in God I could ask myself: why you? Does it have any meaning? Yet the beach was empty, as empty as if God had not yet finished making it.” – Marguerite Duras Do you…

  • Hardly working

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    When a coworker comes back from Ohio with bags full of buckeyes … you turn them into vampires and get ready to rumble.

  • Wristwatch

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    Yesterday, I saw the wristwatch. He was wearing all black again, even a black backpack. We walked together off the light rail and then he stopped, turned and waited for the crosswalk to get to the other side. I took the opportunity – not breaking my stride – to look at what time it always…

  • Trolling

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    I was going to write this beautiful line from Duras’ Lol Stein here this morning, a scene where she and a lover are at the beach alone, watching the water and she says The beach is so empty, almost as if God had yet to finish it. I was going to put that line up…

  • ABCs of blushing

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    Today, I’ve spent some time googling “How to train myself to stop blushing for no reason or when people compliment your $1 earrings or your shirt or look at you for god’s she or yell at you from across the room or breath in your direction” because it’s gotten THAT bad and annoying for me…