If It Feels Good Do It

We are at San Francisco looking for Love Fest 2008. Ross and I.
We pound two beers in a parking lot near Market street and then proceed to not find the love fest. And even not finding it is too much work. San Francisco gets on my nerves.
But we have a productive conversation. Relative to what [...]

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FOUR PROBLEMS AND THEIR SOLUTIONS
I was naked on the couch with K. Well, it wasn’t really a couch it was a love seat. That was the problem. It wasn’t long enough to get comfortable.
So we took it down to the floor. But then there was another problem: rug burn. I cut my knee.
On [...]

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When MTL was living here, we needed a roommate. We decided on a female, middle-aged roommate from China. I’ll call her L.
MTL wanted to live with a fellow Chinese female and at first when the three of us lived here, things were generally good.
Problems started though when MTL and I broke up and it was [...]

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Controversy with “Marie, Technical Recruiter, Portland Oregon.” I’ve had a bunch of people ask me if that was real.
Over the weekend I called Marie and told her to read the post. She said she would. But then she called me back and said she wanted me to read it to her. But then I was [...]

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getting weak and stuff everyday is one day closer to death but everyday I am still here it’s funny I never feel my own age when people call me a man I think they’re talking about someone else or something that doesn’t fit like whitewalls on a pickup
“Alright you guys, I gotta go to bed,” [...]

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I have a friend named Marie. I have known her since high school in Benicia.
Now she lives in Portland, Oregon and is a technical recruiter. She moved up to Portland about six years ago.
I spoke with her on the phone yesterday.
Everyone has a different reaction to me being unemployed. This was hers.
“So, before we get [...]

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full blown agoraphobia i hope not this time not again it’s getting strange though seen a lack of effort and a lack of success seen a presence of effort and a presence of success but not presence of effort but lack of success roommate is being a pain told me to the house was too [...]

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Class was good last night. Another five star poem. And I didn’t have to worry about getting fired the next day.
Then I slept nine hours.
I don’t even remember the last time I slept nine hours.
In fact, I didn’t think it was possible. Well, not until this morning.
I think I’ll take the rest of [...]

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Life is different when you ain’t got no job.
MONDAY, CONTINUED
I went to a cafe to read and write. But I was so tired. I had gotten up in the morning, prepared to do real work. Like at a job. At my former job.
But now I was so drowsy, I couldn’t formulate a complete sentence. I [...]

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It’s funny being me.
THURSDAY
And sometimes it’s better than that. Thursday morning was one of those times.
I was hard at work, at work. Then I received two pieces of correspondence.
OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE
Format: Text Message
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008
From: *
Body: Me and * are talking about you.
Format: Text Message:
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008
From: *
Body: I believe the phrase [...]

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