archives for January 2008

rebound insomnia cocoa: a recipe

Tuesday 8 January 2008 | I like a cookie

1. Run out of Lunesta. Have 2 tablets left and a pdoc appointment 5 days from now. Hoard remaining tablets in case pdoc doesn’t work out and you need them desperately next week for Monday and Wednesday nights, because you are teaching Tuesday and Thursday and already have woken yourself up explaining the syllabus to […]

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today’s brilliant idea

Monday 7 January 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar

What if, instead of to-do lists, I made done lists?

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al-anon meeting schedule [unofficial], where I can find it again

Monday 7 January 2008 | I like a cookie

Monday 12:00 pm
T.G.I.M. (concurrent AA mtg)
Holy Spirit Catholic Church, Rm. 7
1800 E. Libra Dr.
(north of Guadalupe on McClintock)
Monday 7:00 pm
Changed Attitudes
Desert Palm Unified Church
1230 E. Guadalupe
(north side, between McClintock and Rural)
Monday 7:15 pm
Monday Night Acceptance
Grace Community Church, Rm. E201
3201 S. Terrace Rd.
(one light east of Rural on Southern Ave.)

Tuesday 12:00 pm
Spirit of Al-Anon (concurrent AA […]

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the brujo writes a passage in español

Sunday 6 January 2008 | I like a cookie

Yo quisiera tres tacos de pescado con limon pero sin lechuga, por favor. Y tambien una habitacion por esta noche, disculpe me. Para mi, sabor de nada es mejor que sabor de aceite. Disminuya su velocidad. No maltrate las senales. Tambien, algunas camarones y mucho hectares de terreno. Entonces quisiera sexo y refrescos, sin dudas.
And […]

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rudely interrupted by january

Sunday 6 January 2008 | I like a cookie

The mind having become that dangerous neighborhood where you shouldn’t go alone, suddenly full of those whom the Brujo calls rogues, hissing judgment, reminding me chorally of my selfishness, weaknesses, great and greatly harmful mistakes. I flail, try to make an egg custard, overcook it, fall asleep despondent with all my clothes on, nightmare, nightmare, […]

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meet maria; or, contents under pressure; or, probably the longest post of 2008; or, ¡feliz año nuevo!

Sunday 6 January 2008 | someone left a cookie

This is Maria.

Part One.
Maria came from a vendor’s stand in Acapulco sometime in 1969. I was still a baby when my aunt got married and went there for her honeymoon (but not the ensuing divorce). She got a crippling case of turista and she also got me this papier-mâche-and-sawdust-stuffed souvenir doll, who originally had a […]

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