Sunday, September 5, 2004

sad today, don't know why.

I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light - Brand New

The time has come for colds and overcoats.
We're quiet on the ride,
we're all just waiting to get home.
Another week away, my greatest fear.
I need the smell of summer,
I need its noises in my ears.
If looks could really kill,
then my profession would be staring.
Please know we do this cause we care
and not for the thrill.
Collect calls to home
to tell them that I realize
that everyone who lives will someday die
and die alone.

And we won't let you in.
Though we're down and out.
We won't let you in.
You win.

I wrote more postcards than hooks.
I read more maps than books.
Feel like every chance to leave
is another chance I should have took.
Every minute is a mile.
I've never felt so hollow.
I'm an old abandoned church with broken pews
and empty aisles.
My secrets for a buck.
Watch me as I cut myself wide open
on this stage. Yes, I am paid
to spill my guts. I won't see home till spring.
Oh, I would kill for the Atlantic,
but I am paid to make girls panic
while I sing.

And we won't let you in.
Though we're down and out.
We won't let you in.
And we won't let you in.
We don't want what isn't ours.
We won't let you in.
You win.

And the coastline is quiet.
While we're quietly losing control.
Yes, we're silent but sure
we inventened the cure
that will wash out my memories of her.
"The harpoon is loaded. The cage is lowered.
The water is red."
Like you.

Wednesday, September 1, 2004

yay work!

I LOVE MY JOB! This is a conversation I had with a Chinese doctor at a nearby mental institution. When reading, you must imagine all his yelling done in a thick Chinese accent.

 

me: hi, dr. gau? this is kate stiteler, calling from tim williams' office on (patient name). you faxed us the med report you filled out, but i wanted to find out if i could get the original--

dr. gau: THE ORIGINAL?!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!?!

me: well, you faxed us a copy, but the judge really likes to have the original with the original signature--

dr. gau: THEY DIDN'T SEND YOU THE ORIGINAL?!?! WHY DIDN'T THEY SEND YOU THE ORIGINAL?!?! YOU NEED TO TALK TO THE SOCIAL WORKER!!! I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY DIDN'T SEND YOU THE ORIGINAL!!!

me: um, okay, i need to talk to the social worker?

dr. gau: YES!!! THE SOCIAL WORKER!!! GEORGE!!!

me: okay, george? what's george's last name?

dr. gau: GEORGE GR... GREES... GEORGE... THE SOCIAL WORKER FOR E6!!!!!!!!!!

me: okay...

dr. gau: HANG ON!!!!!!!!!

me: okay—

dr. gau: I WILL TRANSFER YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday, August 21, 2004

HE'S BACK!

My Sid came back! Thank you, everyone!!!

SID

If you're reading this, please take a second to say a prayer that my Sid comes home to me. I miss him very much and am spending way too much time crying for him. So if you could please send some good vibes my way, I promise karma will repay you in a positive way.

If you want to, add a comment with a positive thought after this journal so I know someone has read it and is hoping with me.

Thanks, everybody.

Thursday, August 12, 2004

goddamn it, you're all on to me!

underneath my kind exterior i am actually mean. i don't know how you all caught on, but it is true. i only let people walk all over me so i can lull them into a false sense of security. i will have my revenge on whoever let this secret out....

Wednesday, August 4, 2004

oh god the stupidity!

i really want my "Mood" above to be "crunchy". but whatever.

Note: the phone number below has been changed to protect the identity of the idiotic.

lovecat713: sometimes i am seriously, truly mystified by people.
ThDvlsAdvoc8: an example, please.
lovecat713: i was just talkking to this lady.
lovecat713: she needs to make an appointment for her parents to get estate planning done.
lovecat713: and so i am supposed to get info from her.
lovecat713: number one, she has eight brothers and sisters.
lovecat713: and she doesn't know all their names, addresses, etc.
lovecat713: so she's gonna have to get back to us on that.
lovecat713: number two, she doesn't think her mom has a middle name.
lovecat713: i am like, does she have a middle initial?
lovecat713: "i don't think so. she never told it to me."
lovecat713: okay. what is her birthdate?
lovecat713: "hmmm, oh boy. let's see. her birthday is.... um..... september.... eighth? i think? oh i don't know, i am going to have to get back to you on that."
lovecat713: okay....... do you know her home phone?
ThDvlsAdvoc8: can you mail her the information?
lovecat713: "YES. it's three six oh... thirty-seven thirty-five. umm.... three six oh.... thirty-seven thirty-five.... eight sixty-seven."
lovecat713: who the FUCK says a phone number like that?????
ThDvlsAdvoc8: perhaps she thought you asked her for the combination to the safe where her brain is stored?
lovecat713: thirty sixty oh thirty seventy thirty fifty eighty sixty seventy.
lovecat713: she was on her cell on her way to work. i told her to call me when she got to work and would be able to look up the necessary information.
ThDvlsAdvoc8: if she makes it to work.
ThDvlsAdvoc8: moron.
lovecat713: who would hire her? who doesn't know their parents' middle names and birthdates?
ThDvlsAdvoc8: maybe she works for what's left of Enron.
ThDvlsAdvoc8: she sounds like the perfect employee.
lovecat713: how did she even get a driver's license? and also, she does NOT sound like she should be talking and driving at the same time.
ThDvlsAdvoc8: i'm surprised she didn't have an accident while you were talking to her.
ThDvlsAdvoc8: she can, clearly, only do two things at once....
ThDvlsAdvoc8: ..talk on the phone and drive.
lovecat713: thinking does NOT fit into that equation.

Tuesday, August 3, 2004

on music

lovecat713: if i had to pick two bands that i hated A LOT, they would be as follows:
lovecat713: steely dan
lovecat713: yaz
ThDvlsAdvoc8: yeah, i never understood how yaz became so popular.
ThDvlsAdvoc8: they're such oddballs.
lovecat713: there are other bands i hate.
lovecat713: but those are the top two.
ThDvlsAdvoc8: you have a list?
lovecat713: also, there is an oldies song.
lovecat713: and it goes, "i think it's gonna be all right, yes, the worst is over now, the morning sun is shining like a red rubber ball."
lovecat713: i don;t know who sings it. but i hate them, because that is the WORST simile in the WORLD.
ThDvlsAdvoc8: i didn't know red rubber balls shined.
lovecat713: THANK YOU.
lovecat713: a few years ago i was really on a tear about it.
lovecat713: cause i used to listen to the oldies station at work.,
lovecat713: and hear that song all the time.
ThDvlsAdvoc8: it must be popular.
lovecat713: and i went home to my parents' house raging about it.
lovecat713: and i said to my father, "WHEN HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A RED RUBBER BALL SHINE/?"
lovecat713: my father looked at me and said, "well. maybe if it was on fire."
ThDvlsAdvoc8: i think i'd like your dad.