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Mommy was better at holding grudges than anybody,
the fact that what is wrong with me, delighting in a little baby elephant choking on her rattle,
the fact that if you were born, you bred, and you crumbled where you stood,
the fact that a kid shouldn’t have to pay with his life for being curious, the fact that things shouldn’t be that dangerous, in your own home,
restrictions, the fact that Mommy took Pepito to a dog training class when he was a puppy, and all the other dogs sat in a big circle and Pepito just wanted to lie down,
the fact that the police themselves never seem to have their cameras on when they’re supposed to,
absolutely correct
the English don’t trick-or-treat right,
damn straight
the fact that Ben wants a doop, but they’re hard to take care of, the fact that if a doop catches a cold it can be fatal,
COVID
the fact that Leo’s third grade teacher was convinced octopuses have six legs and from then on Leo never trusted any of his teachers, though she was a nice teacher otherwise, he says,
Greg's 3rd grade teacher said "x*0=x"
the fact that I wrote my first poem at Channing, They say the hen can lay, I don’t know but they know,
AHA! It's HER poem, phew!
the fact that there’s a lot about yourself you can’t share with your kids because they just don’t care all that much,
the fact that I hate feeling car sick, the fact that I feel car sick if I sit in the back seat now, or if I try to read anything in a car, especially if somebody’s a bad driver, the fact that it can happen even with Leo driving, the fact that I have to admit his driving is sort of jerky, and he takes corners too fast, so you’re thrown this way and that, but I would never tell him,
the fact that all I’ve got in my Daily Carry, otherwise known as my purse, are my keys, my wallet, some Kleenex, barrettes, tampons, lipstick, my little blue mirror, aspirin, some folding scissors, a tiny sewing kit, gum drops, old Bazooka bubble gum wrappers, some Ticonderoga Beginners pencils, crumbs, raisins, lost buttons, my sunglasses, and a beat-up single-portion packet of Kool-Aid I picked up for free somewhere,
that's more like it
WikiReader,
WHAT
the fact that I can’t remember my whole life, so why would I remember a tray of coins, scissors, key chains, Scotch tape, pine cones, gum balls, paperweights, and a pocket watch,
YESSS
the fact that I can hardly live with myself and I never tried to deform anybody or pollute a whole ecosystem just to make a buck,
she’s always trying to squeeze something educational for them out of every moment, interrupting the conversation to check her kids are taking it all in and benefiting from this learning opportunity in some way, the fact that it makes me so self-conscious, the fact that she makes you feel like you have to put on an act, because she is, the fact that she turns every get-together into a kind of seminar for them, and yes, they’re smart, they’re doing well and all, so I guess it’s paying off, her obsessiveness, possessiveness, the fact that I think giving your kids a head start is all very well,
...more
hard relate
the fact that her kids never need math help from the police,
hahaha
the fact that nobody seems to notice I have a job and it actually takes up all my energy,
oof
NO HOMEWORK NIGHT BOOK CLUB WITH MARY UNITY DAY FALL FEST MARCH OF THE PENGUINS TRUMPET DAY NO SCHOOL GREAT BIG PLAY DATE YOUNG BUILDERS AFTERSCHOOL CLASSES HIRUKO POWER OR NOW KARATE WAKE UP PICTURE DAY,
end week 1, day 3
Cathy says there is no real American cuisine, aside from turkey sandwiches, that is, and sarsaparilla, sorghum and grits,
oh Cathy, get your ass down south
the fact that I never had a codfish ball and hope I never do, but they were a big treat for Laura Ingalls Wilder,
Rosalind Russell says “It’s her own fault,”
His Girl Friday
the fact that I should really add in indecision time and procrastination time, and freaking-out time,
JUST @ ME NEXT TIME ELLMANN
Katie doesn’t cook her BBQ sauce at all, the fact that she uses a lot of apricot jam in hers,
christ, Katie
and I have a daughter disgusted by my refusal to become vegan,
we got that guy in DC, the fact that I think he plans to just bluff his way through the whole presidency, the fact that he smells so good, Leo, not Trump, dear me, pollution, nuclear war,
sometimes I’m scared I might blurt out something gloomy or unpatriotic in one of the restaurants or something, and they’ll all take against me,
the fact that sometimes I long for a friend that’s just a little bit indiscreet,
I love these friends
the fact that what some people don’t get is my pies are like my kids, the fact that they’re like a little piece of me that I leave behind in restaurants, though I try not to leave the kids behind in restaurants,
the fact that I know I should be kinder, dear me, the fact that everybody has to make a living after all, the fact that so what if this Julie person got famous with her cooking blog, the fact that who am I to question it, the fact that live and let, but they live right over a pizza parlor in Queens and it just seems to me they’d have been a lot happier if they just ate pizza every night and went to bed and watched a movie,
the fact that once you’re a mom you start to notice how people waste their freedom, waste it,
:D
the fact that you lose everything in life, everything, and then you lose your life too,
OH GOD
the fact that everybody likes sugary things, I guess, except for a few noble moms who try to protect their kids from sweet stuff as long as possible with pretzels, carrot sticks, cucumber, rice cakes, big fat sour pickles and stuff,
:D
the fact that emailing customers is much better but you almost always end up having to talk on the phone as well,
the fact that fist bumps and high fives spread less germs than shaking hands,
the fact that angel food is the best cake ever invented but nobody seems to realize it,
I DO
the fact that another black man was shot down by the police,
the fact that I think that treatment changed me forever in some fundamental way,
hahah
the fact that some moms are bullies, and some are cold, and some are monsters, and some are undependable, or critical, and, compared to all those, I don’t think I’m so bad, but Stacy does, the fact that she’ll probably be glad if I get eaten by a hungry bear, one carnivore inside another, carnivore karma, the fact that it’s horrible to be criticized by your own daughter who once looked up to you, but that’s over,
the fact that it would be like suddenly coming out with something like “mists and mellow fruitfulness” in the middle of a conversation about raking the leaves,
end of week 1, day 4. p221 my edition
the fact that here I am in the snow, a damsel in distress, completely dependent on the milk of human kindness, and there just isn’t any, the fact that there’s a go-slow in the milk-of-human-kindness milking parlor today,
the fact that this here that I’m getting seems to be the skimmed milk of human kindness,
until he got me alone and started holding me against the wall against my will,
like that guy at the 8Mile
the fact that I’m still seeing discarded Christmas trees around, the fact that people just dump them anywhere, and they always look sort of sad, the trees, not the dumpers, the fact that the dumpers look relieved to be free of this tree that gave them so much joy just a month or two ago, the fact that first they’re worshipped and decorated and everybody circles around and you put your presents under it, and then it’s just trash,
the fact that how could you vote for cars, when they’re so ugly, the fact that they were better-looking in the thirties and forties, even the fifties, with the running boards and gangsters, open-topped with milk pails on the back,
ha ha
“Yvonne, I love you, but he pays me,”
Casablanca
I guess, just because you write children’s books doesn’t necessarily mean you’re the nicest person in the world,
ooh topical
the fact that I think it’s impossible to imagine your own corpse,
weirdly apt as I'm also reading Lincoln In The Bardo
the fact that it seems to me the wife is often “estranged” when these things happen, the fact that it should be called “estranger danger,”
:O omg
