sometimes_the_universe_mocks_us Anna_Began This is what usually happens in my life: I think thoughts like "I'm not ready to go home. I'd give anything to stay here. I love it here, I don't want to fall asleep alone, I don't want to say goodbye. If only, only I had one more day." And then on the day I'm due to leave, I rinse the suds from my hair, hang my scrubby sponge for what I thought was the last time from his shampoo bottle and bend to turn off the water only to collapse in a naked, wet heap in the bathtub. Two days later, still tremendously sore and spasming, I return to Baltimore, still naive enough to say "I don't want to fall asleep alone, I don't want to say goodbye." When will I learn, I always get what I want? It just usually comes in the most cruelly ironic ways. 030731 ... misstree that's how Mother Chaos teaches us. She has nothing against a swat on the ass, or a punch in the nose as she hands us the cookie we begged for. Sick thing is, she's always smiling when she does it. And she always means it. And she always loves us. 030801 ... raze on the side of an oxygen therapy truck that settled down on my street for a spell, i saw this: "live well. sleep well. be well." i don't spend a lot of time swearing at vehicles when their drivers are a mystery to me. but i had some harsh words for that one. 240202 what's it to you? who go blather from