• Archive for October, 2008

    Updates

    October 23, 2008 // 2 Comments »

    Updates:
    Plural, yes, so buckle up, my lovelies!!!

    1) This month of being sedentary hath made me, how shall I say… of splendid abundance. “Potelé,” to use the charming French term. Indeed-y O, j’ai un peu trop de junk in the trunk. My bum has a predisposition to expand (or explode, as it were), and so I go to war!!!  I have armed myself with super-duper supportive sports bras, and have even broken out those wretched orthopedic monstrosities of flashing silver and lime green (i.e. exercise sneakers). As promised, since my ankle has healed I have been bounding like a loon on my trampoline. How sad, I know. As a result, my ass muscles are constantly in rebellion, which is just swell given that my profession requires me to march around unabatedly like a wind-up German soldier-boy toy for 7 to 8 hours a day. It feels so marvelous, I cannot even tell you. But a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do!

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    Posted in Marfa, TX

    A Mouse in My House and Fossilized Turds

    October 20, 2008 // 3 Comments »

    Mes enfants,

    There is a mouse in my house!!! I say this not only because it has an especially sonorous ring, but because, alas, it is la verité. I really don’t know what to do about it. It seems to me the rodent has as much right as I to be here. It doesn’t pay the bills, granted, but what gives me the authority to kick the poor bugger to the curb? It’s frosty out there! Also, I have named it Hitler. Really, I cannot explain away the twistedness of my thought process, but just so you don’t all think I have officially gone off the ledge, round the bend irretrievably, here is how I arrived at the horrid title. I once had a pet mouse named Napoleon. I was young, I don’t know… and she was a girl, to top it all off! Apparently my spastic qualities set in early. Anyway, I therefore thought it would be cute to maintain the tradition and name all my mice after dictators (yes, I am fully aware that this is sounding worse and worse. My brain does weird things sometime, I can’t explain it.) As you can imagine, Hitler was the first name that came to mind. I tried to immediately discard it, but the OCD part of me clung to the name with such might that I had to give in. So now I co-inhabit my home with a mouse named Hitler. Ah, good times!

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    Posted in Marfa, TX

    Rancher Wants to Brokeback it with My Dog

    October 17, 2008 // No Comments »

    Today, I was nearly home from my walk with Tchae when some rancher dude stopped his truck, rolled down the window, and said he liked my dog. Do fully grown farmer-men really go gaga (alliteration. Je suis en ecstase!!!) for little white fluffy dogs? I suppose only the repressed Brokeback Mountain type. J’espere that he does not wish to Brokeback it with my innocent little doggy. Doggy- get it? Hahahah and an abundance of fake laughs. 

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    Posted in Marfa, TX

    Encounter with a Mountain Lion + Statutory Rape

    October 5, 2008 // 4 Comments »

    Salut, honey bunches of oats’s!

    First off, let me clarify that my disappearance into the abyss of the unknown (i.e. lack of spastic communication) was the result of a visit to St. John’s College in Santa Fe.
    My dear friend’s boyfriend has disappeared, wound his undies into an extremely tight bunch, it seems, and I have been advising her on how to both figuratively and literally coax his drawers out of their chastity bundle.  Tada! Voila! And presto! Also, shabang!!! I should be the next Aunt whatever-her-face is, the one that people write to for advice. Yes, indeed, I have found my calling. Sound the horns! Toot the trumpets!!! She has just acquired two fuzzy kittens, so I told her that in times of desperation, there is always bestiality to turn to. Hohoho, how not-funny am I?
    Speaking of cats: there is a mountain lion in town. With cubs!!! And it lives in my arrondissement. I know!!!

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    Posted in Marfa, TX