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The geography of the area was working against

  • The geography of the area was working against the road builders of the 19th and 20th centuries, who were hellbent on draining the swamps to expose the rich black mucky
  • soil at the bottom. It could be sold to offset the costs of the asphalt that would replace it. No resource going unused, except for common sense.
  • And common sense is just that common, that's why I hate it. If common sense was a dog I'd kick it until it's ribs turned to jelly. Now, what I really like is
  • common NONsense. It's true on both parts - it's quite common and always nonsensical. This belief is the only thing that keeps me sane less I claw at my face with every stupid
  • fold written into this script. No. I would soldier on. Insanity not withstanding. As a playwright / drama professor at the community college, I would
  • easily hide my neurotic habits. Characters wove together in my memory, lilting the rhythms of my disregulated emotions toward
  • tiny chihuhuas in pink fluffy purses. My lifelong fetish, the obsession that had triggered my neurosis, the guilty torment that had turned me into
  • someone who always demanded doggie bags. It got so I was waiting up all night for the Monica Lewinsky purses segment on QVC. I would call when she was on, and ask her about
  • the clasp, the sequins, the zip on the inside pocket, wether it was rainproof, fade resistant, organic, gluten-free. Anything just to keep talking. And then it struck me, after all
  • the hard work that went into this, it was completely pointless. No one would ever care about the stupid gluten-free sequins. Suddenly I felt
Started
2010-12-03 03:30:15
Finished
2011-02-14 16:03:31

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