tutelage

• that one's for you.

• it left me winded. as though i'd received a heavy blow to the chest. i sat there trying to catch my breath while my mind struggled to grasp what had just happened.

• he wants a shoe-horn. i guess he's just a shoe-horny kind of guy.

• your house is the distance of a thin white duke song away from my house.

• i'm happy to have you back home from your trip to your native land.

• he asked me "since when have you had glasses?" "1994" i told him.

• if i was a masters student, i'd do my thesis on suburban living.

• she wears a vagina on her chest. i think that trumps a heart on a sleeve.

• it rammed me hard in the shoulder. i knew at the time that it would leave a bruise and now i can't remember what it was.

• i roasted an acorn squash for dinner tonight. that is most unlike me.

• i never expected to have a job that was particularly noteworthy. and yet, with quite regularity, i get people gawking at me in awe when i tell them what i do. i feels pretty darn good.

• i pieced it together. you're at spring camp. i didn't clue in until i saw it on facebook two days later.

• you're weird. i think that's why we're friends.

• i told her i really like "fruit-to-go" snacks. she said "i just like fruit". i don't think she was listening to what i was saying.

• sometimes i forget.

• i like doing telephone surveys.

• sometimes i wonder what it would be like to have your life. i wonder if you ever wonder what it's like having MY life.

• she has rats. and i don't mean as pets.

• my eyes watered so much as a result of my allergies that it washed my make-up away completely.

wish and love are not the same thing.