Monday, March 9, 2009

Well, what you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar

I keep having dreams that I am forgetting things, dire -- my toothpaste, my passport, my tights-- or dreams that the timing is wrong -- I thought we were leaving two days later and now we are leaving now and the car is at the door and how will I ever throw things I need into a bag in time --- and then there was the night I watched Highlander before bed and everyone in my dreams had swords that sparked and lazer light shows and men with eyes so close together, they seemed crossed.

I just want to be on the plane.

Also? That was my boot covered in mud last Friday. I walked around for about three hours with feet like that. Like carrying weights on the soles of my shoes.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Ten percent of nuthin' is...let me do the math here...nuthin' into nuthin'...carry the nuthin'...

Overheard by the soda machine at the outlet mall in Gilroy, Ca:

Suit One: It's a lot of trips...
Suit Two: Yeah, well, this is my third one (wife). She knew what she was getting into.
Suit One: Oh?
Suit Two: I've got her trained. She knows the drill
pause...
Suit Two: Her boyfriend likes it best when I'm gone anyway.
mutual laughter.
And then past my table strolled two stout, balding, 50-ish men.