that hill

I AM SEVERELY STUCK IN THE PAST
you don't look it
THANKS
you look like the here and now
IT'S MY MIND THAT CAN'T GET OVER THE PAST
maybe you are still learning from it
I HOPE. I HOPE I AM NOT JUST DWELLING. THAT PAST HILL IS A BIG DEAL.

from across the wall

» My computer just shut down.
» Oh, did you kick it at all?

every three years

} We were tiny children when we met. Little college kids.
) That is true. I've thought about that before.
} I think this was my first time.
) We were just teenie. Three years ago. Three years.
} Three burdensome years.
) Three aging years.
} Three milestone years.
) Three complicated years. Three boring years. Three replikated years. Three everything years.
} Three full years.
) Yep.
} How do you feel after those years?
) I feel like those 3 years were so full I can't even imagine how simple and tiny I must have been before they happened. And I kind of wish I would have stopped when I was simple and tiny. And I'm kind of glad that I didn't. And I hope there are more simple tiny years to come. And I wonder if in 3 years I'll think I was simple and tiny right now.
} That's hard to imagine right now.
) Yeah it is. But that's the kind of stuff that happens.
} I can't believe how much different I feel, but how the same I probably am.
) Yep. I feel better and worse.
} The world could be amazingly different in 3 more years. A new job, a new location, a spouse, a child?
) It could. Easily.
} No job, no house, no spouse, no child?
) Easily. Better? Worse? Who knows. But we're in charge of that. But we have no idea what what we're doing will do to those 3 years. So that's hard.
} It's kind of awesome. I like this perspective. I don't know why I feel like I'm in the middle of a 6-year sandwich.
) Because you are. I guess.
} I will start measuring in 3-year increments I guess. Feels like a good increment.
) It's not too final. Three years you can see effects. It's a good increment.
} You can gauge it from beginning to end, it's short enough.
) Yeah.
} Barely.

monday night football

"There was no flag on the play. I threw my flag instead of my beanbag."

time & the trains

1 I never knew it until lately, but I really like how the weather widget turns into a night sky when it gets dark out.
2 I like that too. I don't like how the real sky turns into a night sky before I even get off work though.
1 YES I HATE IT!!!! Its' all daylight savings' fault. I don't even understand. Both before and after daylight savings happened, it looks just like normal daytime in the morning. I feel like they should scoot the time forward so it's just barely light when I go to work, so I can have a day for the rest of the day.
2 Yeah, you don't need day for sleeping. That's what night is for.
1 What I am wondering is who is it for? Construction workers that go to work at 6am? I feel like time should accomodate the more classy white-collar workers. The 9-5ers.
2 I think it was invented for farmers. Which doesn't make sense since they just wake up at sunrise, no matter what time it's at.
1 Yeah, when the cock crows. And they are out on a farm, away from society. Time has no meaning to them.
2 Maybe it is for people who shop from the farmer's market, so they know when to show up.
1 I feel like the people that do that are like my grandma and have nothing going on their whole day except that. So I feel like they can just deal with it because they have all day to.
2 Obviously, whoever it's for doesn't need it or probably even appreciate it.
1 Don't trains hate it? And they have their own time that doesn't change with daylight savings? We should adapt to that. Train time.
2 That would be good.
1 My boss told me his theory today about Trax. He for reals thinks the city is extending it to try to hit bums with it. To separate them from the Gateway, and to eliminate some in the process.
2 I guess that's believable. You always need tracks to make sure that the undesirables live on the other side of them.
1 I really do imagine quite a few will get hit. They are all on drugs all the time. And it's 5 feet from them. Surely plenty of them will wander over there. When I see their exploded corpses I wonder if I will just think "gross!" like when I see a deer that's been run over, or if I will be really sad, like when I see a kitten run over.
2 You would do well to not get attached to any of them.

plant lady

1/2| The plant lady is dusting the plants!
2/2| Real plants?
1/2| Yes!
2/2| That is insane.
1/2| With a duster! Like a feather one. Do you have a plant lady?
2/2| Yeah, we have one.
1/2| This lady comes in like once a week and waters everything.
2/2| I have never seen them dust.
1/2| Next time your plant lady is in, you should tell her the plants look dusty.
2/2| I will complain how dusty they are. And cobwebby.
1/2| Her duster actually looked pretty dusty after she got done.
2/2| Do you know the genus of your plants? Mine look shiny, like maybe they were polished.
1/2| That's how the dusty one looks now. I have no idea what it is. Some sort of small tree with large shiny leaves. And now she's working on a big bamboo plant in the back.

talk down

dee: He talks to me like he's much much older, and like I am a young kid. He did ever since I started here. And after I was here for a while and I found out he's like the same age as me, it blew my mind. Inside i was like, "that kind of pisses me off, in retrospect." But I just came to accept that's how he is, and he doesn't mean any harm.

cee: I hate being talked down to. A lot.
dee: Yeah it sucks. I started just making fun of his church clothes to balance out the equation.

across the wall

cee: Conversations across the wall are often annoying.
dee: Especially when they're about makeup.
cee: Serious.
dee: I want to throw heavy things over the wall.

big shirt. every time

LL// Let's go play some volleyball!
TN// Are you coming?
LL// Yeah. I just decided. Don't try and change my mind.
TN// Sweet.
LL// What are you wearing? Shants and a big shirt?
TN// It's not BIG! Geez... Now I have to look at it. And it's a sweatshirt. It's supposed to be big.

the dead

^ What did you do with that day?
* Temple sealings.
^ In honor of Halloween?
* Yes. Work for the dead on Halloween.
^ The Day of the Dead. Makes sense.
* And the Day of the Dad.

what's that?

$ what's that picture?
¢ that's me.
$ you?
¢ yeah.
$ do you think the man will let you go?
¢ no. i don't think he will. he will take me somewhere else first i think.