beautiful dog

"beautiful dog," i said. "what sort of dog?"
"lots of mutt," she said. "from the pound."
"i'm glad," i said. "what's its name?"
"And then what happened?" she said. "we call her then for short."
"perfect," i said. "have a super day!"
"i will," she said, "bye! come on, then!"
her dog loped on after her.

errands

I watered the dinosaurs this morning and went with Tony to the shops. We compared prices of planets at several stores and bought a moderately-sized one. And now, relaxing with a cup of gentle biscuits.

cars

in the rainy whitegrey daytime, cold trees, slick pavements, splashy roads, windtugged umbrellas, the slim warm orange indicators on cars *flash* *glow* *hub* provide

everyone is sleeping

now that everyone is sleeping, i will steal a pair of socks, break a stem of lipstick, drop a towel to the bathroom floor, something for everyone's house, my way of saying hi

mom

like today, i get this email from this grown-up, and he says (copied from his email!!) "Go back and read my first email. I can explain it in simpler terms if you would like." and it makes me SO MAD when people insult me like when the army came recruiting at school but that's another story but yeah i was so mad and i sicced cyber dobermans on his case and of course i told cassie and she's just started working at the new burger joint and everyone's been checking it out so she said she's never going to give him free stuff. and i bet i have to deal with him one day like at a job or whatever and i'll afford him all the respect he deserves, you know! anyway so my mom is not like me, she has some habits like doing-before-thinking and if
people ever insult her she basically shrugs and says, "well that's their problem" and she pretty much always thinks she's right. but we went to this theater and you know, you can tell a place by its coffee and this place was $5 a cup and that's like, airports and dumb tourist area prices! so i already didn't like the place. ok well mom goes up to get the brochure for the place, and she's been there before so she thought they were on the main counter. but they'd moved them to some stands in the center of the room, and she asked the guy behind the counter where they are, and he practically screws up his face in this totally snarky way and points to the brochure stands, and when she walks over there, he turns to his friend and says, "god, they are SO
DUMB." so i haul mom over to the counter and say real loud to the guy, "what did you just say about my MOM" and he is like, stunned and mom was like, "oh who cares" and so i almost jumped over the goddam counter and punched him in the face but the counter was too high.