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Mon | November 21, 2005

everything that has happened to me so far today

12:26 AM. Call Sharif. I am about to tell him I can't sleep when he says, "You only ever call me when you have a problem or can't sleep."
"That's not true," I say. It isn't true.
"I have to get something upstairs," he says. "I'll call you back."
"Hum, okay," I say. I hang up the phone. It chirps. Low battery. I turn it off. I know he won't call back.

2:47 Call Sharif again. He says he was going to call back, that he always does. "You're full of lies," I say. Sharif lies and exaggerates. We talk for ten minutes or so. Towards the end of the "conversation" he gives the phone over to "some drunk kid who stays with us sometimes."

7:00 Wake. Think: I am glad I do not have to do this every day. Write in journal.

7:30 Get out of bed. Stand next to my closet and dresser for ten minutes trying to think of what to wear. Put on the clothes I wore yesterday.

7:52 Say hi to crossing guard at corner of Myrtle and Summit. She is on the lawn with her golden retriever. She feels the need for something else. I know this because of her silver convertible, and the way she says hi.

7:53 Wonder why I instinctively think about what everyone else needs.

7:54 While crossing Hillside Ave, realize I've forgotten my ipod shuffle.

8:37 Wedged between fat people on the train. Afraid their fatness and fat state of mind is being transferred to me by osmosis. Write a note about each person around me in my writer's notebook. The note is a problem that I see with that person. Examples: Fat. Too much makeup. Has leaf in hair. Has two bags.

9:20 Clean the grime off this desk. Get set up in remote location in the other wing. Like it.

9:33 Start turning one-blank sentence completions into similar sentence completions. It's a new question type for the GRE.

9:45 Wish I had Yahoo IM.

10:33 Have thoughts about the people around me, but can't write them. Write about my day so far instead.

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