Real Life

Things related to that reality thing people are always going on about.

Another Sick Day

In four years, I have not missed so much time.  But what can I do?  I am sick.  My stomach hurts, my head hurts, and I can’t maintain six straight hours of consciousness. I guess I feel guilty because I am writing.  I’ve been eating toast and chicken broth for three days, I can’t fix […]

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Still Sick

I did go to work today, and boy, was I sorry. Wednesdays are rough anyway.  The day is an hour shorter (for the kids) and parents insist on thinking of it as a “half-day.”  So they schedule lots of appointments and I spend most of my day finding kids. Then, after school when everyone should

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Hurray for the Stomach Flu?

I’ve got it.  Not too horribly bad, but bad enough I didn’t go to work today. And what did I do?  Oh, only wrote 1,198 words!! Chapter Nine is done, and I’ve got a good start on Chapter Ten.  Who would have thought I’d be grateful for the stomach flu? One drawback, though, is I

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The Olive Branch

Last night my friend called.  Well, his roommate.  This is a good thing.  There’s been a lot of not-speaking going on, and we’ve been friends a long time. So.  The whole tribe (there are three of us humans in the house, but that was how it was stated) the whole tribe was invited to a

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Grocery Shopping

Tonight we had the brilliant idea to go shopping, so we won’t have to go tomorrow. Yeah.  Friday night, nobody will be there.  People (other than us) go out to eat on Friday nights. snort. Okay, it could have been worse.  But I have one burning question: What on Earth makes people think it’s okay

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One Cloud is Lonely

That’s one way to say it.  There’s also, ‘when it rains, it pours.” My personal fave, I think though, is a simple “WTF???! Today was insane.  I-N-S-A-N-E.  Lost children, obnoxious parents, (yes, of course your kid didn’t ditch five days.  Every one of his SEVEN TEACHERS just missed him sitting in class…), class counts and

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Last Time

Tonight we closed at our group.  I’ve felt for a while that we didn’t need to be there anymore, but we loved the people, and Hope insisted she did need it, so…  But a couple groups ago we got two new families, and it was so crowded I decided we needed to make room.  Death

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