1990 mon uow my mom slipped into a coma she had surgery and then woke up i finished the third grade learned how to swim turned ten started grade 4 got my first violin 050330 ... mon uow kuwait oka 050330 ... birdmad turned 18 my dad passed away after being sick for 3 years started using heroin worked a few dead-end jobs started college bought a nintendo dated and almost had a kid with a stripper committed a few petty crimes (and at lest one major felony) 050331 ... ovenbird The year my teacher yelled at me for laughing during a test. I thought a picture of a shell was a picture of an ear and the strangeness of that coiled shape on the page, the incongruity of it, made me laugh, and I was kept in at recess though I was not the sort of child to get into trouble and I began to get the sense that my delight was not allowed, it was a thing to hide under studious frowns, it was inappropriate, too loud, too disruptive. So I learned to bite my lip. I learned to see without smiling. 260310 what's it to you? who go blather from