GRABBINGSAND

they handed out bright yellow t-shirts at work today. we are supposed to wear them tomorrow. employee appreciation day. i don’t mind being appreciated, but do i have to resemble an over-ripe lemon? (yeah, i know, this thought is rather uninspired, but i have been in a staring contest with this damned t-shirt all afternoon …

i am thinking that if fall doesn’t arrive in our fair city soon, i will have to seek it out. head to the hills perhaps. roadtrip north into the carolinas. find some place where the leaves aren’t so tenaciously green… but hope remains. two turned leaves on the hood of my car this morning, sailing …

and it goes on. the packing, the stuffing, the arranging into boxes, the taping, the lifting, the stacking. books are the worst. dense paper, packed in closely together in boxes, making the boxes almost impossible to lift. cannot wait until saturday…

recovering from yesterdays double-filling experience at the dentist. brush regularly, kids… though sometimes i think there must be things in our modern- day food that might just send the cleansing power of flouride to its molecular knees… or maybe the paranoia of these radiohead mp3s is seeping into my afternoon brain. when i am king…

flashbacks to elementary school, junior high, high school. going to the dentist this morning. at least i don’t have braces anymore, and my current dentist is very liberal with the nitrous oxide…

i have the key to my new apartment now. funny how it looks much like my old apartment key, only maybe a bit shinier. am i implying anything? any magical properties? no. just noticing the shine. oh, and the green car is back, the white car is banished, happiness abounds

it threatened rain all weekend, even following me home with that mugginess that insinuates a coming shower. meteorological teasing, setting you up for an eventual downpour, so much so that when it comes you almost don’t want an umbrella.

i am wondering why certain professions carry certain schedules. today i am discovering that dentists do not typically work on fridays. haircutting folks take mondays off. i am looking for that job that just stays home on wednesday for no reason at all.

I can understand having big sinus headaches in the early spring. things are growing and pollenating and clouding the air with yellow. But we are on the verge of fall, three days from now. The only thing I want to have filling the air is ash from burning leaves.