Dream Journal



Thursday afternoon, 7.3.08: I was in a movie theatre with Kristan and during the previews she asked me if German was coming with me on my trip. I told her I hadn't emailed him in a while, and she asked for his email address. I thought that was strange but I gave it to her anyway. I was having considerable trouble putting my phone on silent.
/ I wanted to hurry up and leave but I had a lot of stuff to go through. I found a bunch of Blockbuster movies, some of them were overdue. One or 2 had a sticker that said they were due back on June 15th, so even with their week-long grace period there were still a few days between now and June 22nd (It must have been June 24th). It was 7pm and Alex was there to spend the night at Kristan's house. I said hi to her and felt like I was subtly being shooed out. I got home and found that the bathroom mold had made its way to my living room area, a few shriveled mushrooms were growing in the middle. There was a small forest growing in my living room, and I thought about how quickly buildings revert to nature when they are left in neglect. But I had a buyer now, so I couldn't be bothered. My phone wasn't working properly so I tried calling a landline to see if it would go through. The only one I knew offhand was Kristan's house so I dialed and starting thinking about something else, not realizing that the call had gone through and it was still ringing. Mei finally picked up, and said "alright alright alright". It was 11:47pm, I wanted to hang up, I felt bad that I had called so late. Kristan was on the phone but I told her I called my accident. "Livin' La Vida Loca" was playing on my boombox, but it started out like an emo song. Eventually the beat kicked in and it was the same Ricky Martin song I remembered all along.
Music: Jordan Knight - Give it to You

Wednesday Morning, 7.2.08: I got a lot of coupons from Delta that I could use at hotels and such to receive more than 55,000 SkyMiles. The backs of the coupons had big letters on them, A, B, C, etc.
- Wylie picked me up from the airport at night and I thanked him as we passed the townhouse. He had his music going, it was just like old times.
- McKenna and I were going to meet up after I left the co-op at 6. I kept asking where she worked but she never told me. It looked as though a hurricane was about to hit, so we found an Arab restaurant on a dead-end street and settled on that. There was some confusion as we tried to find the bathroom.
Music: Davy Jones - Girl (rock version)

Tuesday Morning, 7.1.08: Barry Williams had said they were in real hot tubs for the episode, which was a big deal in the 70s. I was in one now and I wanted to go inside and put on sunscreen. A fat girl asked me to rub some into her back and I got away from that, saying I would be back.
- I was rollerblading in a parking lot, and doing it well. I had to get inside after a while, but the pavement was falling apart anyway.
/ My mom's boyfriend was driving us to Mexico on the HOV lane. I told them we were going the wrong way but they didn't listen to me. At some point we crashed and I found the way the windshield looked amusing.

Saturday Morning, 6.29.08: Rafa Nadal was in a movie doing pull-ups by a window. The person I was sitting next to didn't know who he was, so I had to explain, mentioning that I couldn't stand him.
- I had to run to catch the train. I found a broken black umbrella along the way and grabbed it, maybe I would find a use for it later. It became immediately useful as the train door was about to close and I stuck my umbrella in to make the door open again. But this was the wrong train, it was going the opposite direction. I was in a desolate place in Eastern Germany, I needed to get to Frankfurt. The train stopped in Switzerland and I knew I should have gotten off and gone on another train, but I thought maybe this was just a detour. As we traveled farther into Eastern Europe I realized I wasn't dressed properly for the bitter winter. We passed a stop in Germany that had old Nickelodeon signs. Claudio got off on the next stop and told me it was very cold.
Music: Antipop vs. Asia Argento - Vampy

Saturday Morning, 6.28.08: I met Ido Mosseri (from "Don't Mess With The Zohan") and I tried to hide my obvious crush on him. He was helping us with our computer problems.
- Ms. Ellison had remarried and changed her last name. I walked into River Oaks and the office was to the right of the entrance instead of the left. She seemed to still remember me.
- As I walked to the campus entrance I thought about how I would have gone to a black college if I were black, because those would be the kinds of blacks I would want to be associated with. A black guy started hitting on me and I realized I wasn't black afterall.
/ I wanted to hang out with Miranda before I got married and would probably never see her again. She was warning me about marriage, and how it would ruin everything. There were little kids playing with a video camera by the check out counter, they were starting to get on my nerves.
/ Maybe it was Bethany who wanted to play a 90s movie quote game with me. I could envision the part of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" that she had quoted. It was my turn and I was having trouble thinking of a quote. I eventually thought of the part of Austin Powers (1) where Heather Graham (from the sequel) said she didn't want to lose her virginity to Austin. I did a web search for this quote but it only turned up a few pages including a blog that didn't help me at all. Maybe I was remembering it wrong? So much time had passed that Bethany gave me another quote and looked a little bothered that I wasn't coming up with anything. I looked out the window of my dad's room.
Music: Justice - Phantom

Friday Morning, 6.27.08: I was in a mansion, maybe it was my own although I would never really live in a mansion. Asia Argento had done a cover of Mc Tati Quebra Barraco's "Boladona" and I was listening to it on my mp3 player, very much amused.

Thursday Morning, 6.26.08: My mom called me back at night, I listened to the voicemail message in bed and went back to sleep
- Gil asked for my cell phone number and I said I didn't have to give it to him, which obviously made him mad.

Tuesday Morning, 6.24.08: Someone told me I ate too much eggplant, to which I replied that I ate it less than once a week.
- Tia Blanca and I were about to go into Goodwill when she suggested we get something to eat at the empanada place next door. She looked as though she were about to pass out.
- I walked through aisles in a warehouse with Mikey, Natalie and Stephanie. We went upstairs and I sat in a circle with an attractive guy and a bunch of girls he had slept with at one point or another. I left after a while and he came after me, apologizing for something or other. I told him it was ok, I left for a different reason. He was being too nice, I knew that he just wanted to fuck. But he wasn't my type so he was just wasting his time.

Saturday Morning, 6.21.08: I had to sneak through a banquet hall. Someone was playing Megaman and trying to beat the game just using the cutman powers; I knew it would never work. But he managed to put up quite a fight against cutman himself in the hotel room. I went down the escalator alone.
/ Kristan and I were invited to meet the Spice Girls, we couldn't believe it. They were making a film about their lives during the reunion tour, some of their kids were in it, or maybe they were child actors playing their kids. We stood outside by cement stairs, I had on my "España" shirt. We were going into a cave when Geri started screaming to get out, and a huge wave of water came through. One of the daughters cut herself on a rock. They had later driven their little rental car to the countryside, Geri was lying on a hammock and everything she was saying was showing up with English subtitles (over foreign language subtitles, maybe Dutch).
Music: Golden Earring - The Twilight Zone

Wednesday Afternoon, 6.18.08: DJ was told Steve (?) that he only cared about football, and when he went off to college she had second thoughts about their relationship. This was in the family room, and Stephanie was nearby.

Wednesday Morning, 6.18.08: I had an older iPod, but it was still better than the RCA one I have now. This was during the lecture; we could have just gotten in for free since no one was really paying attention to who was coming in. Perhaps Asia Argento was the speaker.
- I was controlling things with my mind. It was raining hard outside, I could see it from the townhouse living room window. I had just mentioned how much I used to like Alanis Morissette. I told the girl to use the two 9-cent coins and dial the two 9s, and then the penny to dial the 1 (9-9-1 instead of 9-1-1). I went upstairs afterward.
- Mikey looked a little irritated when I suggested we buy a ticket for his mom. He wanted her to get into the baseball game with my ticket. Since I wasn't big on baseball I decided this was ok; I stayed in the lounge and watched a soccer game instead

Tuesday Morning, 6.17.08: The sun had recently set and I was waiting for the bus. Najla had to go to the bathroom so I went into the building across the street with her. As we walked up the stairs, I got the feeling I had been there before.

Monday Morning, 6.16.08: I was using Christian's 17 inch Macbook since he was out of town, it turns out it was easy to use and I liked it (only in my dreams). But I wasn't supposed to be there, so I had to get rid of all of the evidence.
- I dragged Kirston to the Sex and the City movie, Kristan sat next to me as well. Kirston and I started making out and I could tell it made Kristan uncomfortable.

Sunday Morning, 6.15.08: I got on a bus with most of my 8th grade class, it became a plane shortly after. I didn't want to be there, I wanted to get the ride over with.

Friday Morning, 6.13.08: We had to build an ad, I was assigned to take photos of cabbage and corn, but I offered to take a photo of carrots as well since they were also on sale. We had to hurry though, so I ran through the supermarket and tried to find the products. I wished I had been assigned the other products, they were much easier to find.
- I told Nicole to just buy the iPod charger, she had been putting it off for over a year. We walked down an alley and I saw some old video games for sale outside. I found a NES Mario game I never knew existed priced at $15, so I went into the store to buy it. The cashier was white trash, she tried to charge me $33 and I told her I didn't want it at that price. "Not even for $15?" I started walking away and she threw the game on the ground. I remembered this place now, a long time ago I had tried to buy that same game and it didn't work.
Music: Marilyn Manson - The Last Day on Earth

Wednesday Morning, 6.11.08: Michael told me bras were a luxury item in Russia and she was selling a lot on ebay. Flash to a Russian woman on a boat trying to smuggle a lemon in her twat and getting caught. I had come back from my dad's house on the bus, I went to the door of an old man's place with my friend, I think he liked us. Michael and her nun friend came to his door shortly afterward dressed in shiny blue habits and sang to him about religion. He looked annoyed and slammed the door in their faces, I felt bad for them. I wondered if he would think any less of me now; he probably knew I was friends with them.

Saturday Morning, 6.7.08: Mom told me she took Wednesday off of work to go to the beach and that I should do the same. She was standing in my room to the left of my TV. "But I don't even have a car..."
- Colombian mom was with her pre-teen daughter and her daughter's friends, they went into their school and told her she was too old to go in there. She stood there reminiscing.
- I was in Mexico with Kristan, we had to cross the highway at night to get to the rich people's mansion so we could brush our teeth (outside).

Thursday Monrning, 6.5.08: Wylie had gained a lot of weight, we were together in the airport and I wanted to go to the bathroom. We went up the parking garage in his car to avoid the line cars waiting to get out.
/ Kristan and I were in what looked like a haunted hotel. This was nothing like we had pictured it to be, and were hesitant to stay there the night. I tried to move a sofa-bed into the room with the twin-sized bed so we could sleep in the same room. Her parents came in and didn't like the set up, why should she sleep on the couch?

Sunday Morning, 6.1.08: I thought we had died in the train crash, but the Jewish guy said our car had survived as we walked down the hallway. Outloud I wondered why as I left a voicemail for my dad

Saturday Morning, 5.31.08: I went alone to the Depeche Mode concert in Madrid, I had reserved a ticket online but I needed to pick it up at a booth. I waited outside of the booth for about 6 hours, and I finally mustered up the courage to go to the guy and ask for my ticket after I saw an English woman do it. He told me I only had 6 minutes before the concert started, and I almost started to cry as I realized that wouldn't be enough time to get to Barcelona. I thought I had missed the concert, and all because I was too scared to go up and get my ticket. But then I realized that the concert would be in Madrid afterall, I just needed to get to the pavillion in time.
/ I got on an empty bus with German, he had a cold. We were making out when the driver opened the door, and I scrambled to get my clothes on before he walked in. We both smiled at each other, knowing that something always intervenes.
- I was in bed with Claudio, I don't know where we were. This was before the plane crashed and we wandered around the forest trying to figure out what city was in the distance. I guessed St. Petersburg, but no, it was New York.
- The stationary aisle of Big Lots was very dimly lit.

Tuesday Morning, 5.27.08: Claudio was already married to someone who resembled Debbie (Steve's girlfriend) from Sex & the City. "Entonces no nos casamos". I wanted him to leave her and he said he was going to, but seemed reluctant. Then it was Jensen, and I had a sextape of ours that I was going to show to his wife to ruin their marriage.

Sunday Morning, 5.25.08: I was walking downstairs in the townhouse when a girl around my age told me she was my new neighbor. She said that we shared a wall, but when I thought she shared the wall with my dad's room instead (in reality this is the same wall). I said bye to her and saw a car drive by with Fauzeya in it.
- Looking for bracelets in a thrift store, none of them were good, but I found some cash with paint on it stapled together (like an art piece) for roughly $21, even though it was about $51 cash. The bills were old but they would probably still be accepted. I put it in my pocket with the intention to buy but forgot about paying for it when I made my purchases. There was a young boy hanging off the top of the security screen and setting the alarm off, the cashier had to get him down from there.

Saturday Morning, 5.24.08: I was at the townhouse again, in a rush to catch the school bus. Alina was playing in the living room while I was getting my stuff together to leave. I told my dad I would be back later that night. I noticed a lot of plastic jugs in the garbage and took the time to sort them for recycling.
- Fauzeya and I went to an Arab restaurant and both had the hummus with eggplant on the side. I was about to tell her how I was on speaking terms with Farida and that second chances were in fact possible.

Tuesday Afternoon, 5.20.08: An Indian man on the 82 (or 132?) asked the Nigerian driver which was the best church as we were approaching the Hillcroft Transit Center. His African friend told him he didn't know.
- Edgar came over again, even though he had just been here the day before. I was just about to step into the shower when the doorbell rang, and I told Mila I wanted to shower before I went out. She insisted that it wasn't a big deal, he knew me and I didn't have to worry about anything. It was kind of annoying, I really needed to shower.

Tuesday Morning, 5.20.08: They were going to get rid of the cockatiels in Colombia by chopping down the big tree with the weird fruits on it. I heard about it through a news report, and I walked over to the tree saddened by the news. Two women (maybe the deaf teachers from TH Rogers) said I was sad because of my "abuela", but this was not the case. Heidi came over to me, his wings were recently clipped, and I felt like it would be the last time I would ever see him. I walked over to put him in my arms but he flew high up into the tree. I noticed a few seeds by the black gate and took 3, hoping that I would be able to plant another tree and keep the cockatiels from going away. I tried to look for Heidi but there were so many cockatiels on the tree; it occurred to me that maybe that hadn't been Heidi who had come up to me earlier. I saw how they would suck on the fruits (that looked like tangelos), and noticed there were two diapered babies sucking on them as well. Someone came up to me and said that the fruits were needed for humans, not for birds. On the news report a professor was shown gathering the fruits, saying he didn't like them but maybe the birds could use them after they chopped the tree down. He looked very angry about the situation. I asked Claudio if there was anything we could do, he of course seemed disinterested. I considered handcuffing myself to the tree. It would be sad if there were no more cockatiels on this continent, but then I thought about it and remembered they were only found in Australia.

Monday Morning, 5.19.08: I walked out of the middle of lunch to go to Barnes and Nobles for the Spread Artculture magazine. I just saw an old Asian woman with a copy, and then saw the Barnes & Noble nearby. I thought I found it, but instead it was a different magazine of similar size and make. Maybe they didn't have it... but there was a display of old video games that I decided to take a good look at.
- I had rented an apartment out to a hippie and I hadn't heard from her in a while so I went by with my black friend to see if she was in there. Or maybe she hadn't paid me in a while. We tried shoving the door in but later settled for looking through the frosted window. I saw her laying down to the side. A few days later we found out she had been beaten to death, we were identified as "potential roommates."
- I had just woken up when Claudio came home with his friend Laura. She told me how much she had wanted to meet me, and I apologized for being in pajamas and said that I had just woken up. She sat at the foot of the bed while I muttered something to Claudio and we kissed briefly. Mila asked Laura how much she weighed now and she became embarrassed. She was in pija clothes. Claudio asked her as well and I took out my 5 language translator to convert my weight to kilograms. I told her I weighed 56 kg, "pero yo soy enana... soy como una ni�a" (I actually weigh 46 kg, as I discovered after dreaming this.)
Music: Stone Temple Pilots - Big Empty

Sunday Morning, 5.18.08: Ivan was seated at the bar and everyone had gathered round to hear him speak. He mixed vodka together with what looked like blood and drank as he told his story. I was waiting for it to get interesting but it didn't. He mentioned the host of Jeopardy ("Alex Trebek?" I thought, but I didn't want to say it outloud... I was probably the only one in the group that knew), this was shortly before I walked away pissed off. Karaoke was about to start and it would be my time to shine. I went to a table with my friends and told them I had just wasted nearly half an hour listening to Ivan. Michael, Eleanor, and Anushree were there. Some girl felt me up and started kissing me, I mostly felt uncomfortable throughout. While the other girls were encouraging me to go farther, Anushree stood up for me and said maybe I didn't like it. I agreed and stayed quiet afterward.

Saturday Morning, 5.17.08: Val's mom was a librarian, I went to visit her with a friend of mine after we got a fortune cookie telling us to do so or something bad would happen to her. She was cleaning up and about to close the library, and was surprised to see us. There were some books in plastic bags on the wall.

Wednesday Morning, 5.14.08: I heard Madonna's new cd before it came out, and I liked it a lot. I was on a playground listening to it.
- Tia Susie needed a vacation, and was going to ask Tia Blanca for 1 month hotel passes for her and Inam. I thought about it and was fairly sure that the passes wouldn't be good for a whole month.
- Going to the Wiggles movie with a lady, I offered to buy her candy before we walked in, we were a few minutes late. Earlier she had asked to see my to do list (in my black spiral notebook), but I wanted to keep it secret. We were in what looked like San Fransisco.

Tuesday Morning, 5.13.08: With Adrienne in Picadilly, maybe with her dad as well. I used a coupon so it came out to $28 for all 3 of us

Monday Afternoon, 5.12.08: I was in Claudio's room at night, I had surprised him with a visit and he was happy about it. But I went into the living room which was in Mima's house, and my grandfather and Tia Blanca were there. She was with Grish and they were walking out the door when she saw me. She didn't know I had come. Mei was there afterwards, when I was in the laboratory holding some pills I was supposed to take to get my scholarship. Someone asked me about them and I was already in a daze, I could barely read the label. I went into a closet where Gil was, he looked worried when he saw my face. The closet resembled a cell of an insane asylum. The Indian ladies had given me the pills, and I thought I could trust them. The next thing I remembered was sitting at the edge of the bed where Jessica Alba's feet were mangled. There was a jock guy sitting there looking sad, and they were all blaming it on me. It didn't seem possible, but I could barely remember what had happened those past few days. It was the pills... everything was hazy.

Monday Morning, 5.12.08: A homeless black man was on the run, but they caught up with him at night when he was trying to sleep. I thought he would sleep on a bench up the stairs of an apartment complex, but perhaps that would be too obvious.
- Claudio and I were at a basketball semi-final. It looked like Boston was losing (their shirts were blue and on the back they just said "Saved" in yellow letters, with the v in the shape of 2 lightening bolts). The game was ending and they were doing crazy things, like throwing free throws on their knees and dancing around. I wanted to see if the last shot went in or not.

Sunday Morning, 5.11.08: Claudio and I had wandered around some sleepy area of town, maybe the Heights. There was gravel on the ground and we went up a small hill to get to a thrift store. They had just put out some old video games and we got a good look at them. I noticed they had a Gamecube for sale, it was in the display case. We spoke to a boy around my age that was a regular there, and a video game fanatic as well.
/ I was about to move and I needed to figure out what to do with all of my stuff. I went into my closet and saw the stack of VHS tapes I had on the shelf. Most of them were children's movies, but I decided I would like to keep The Secret Garden. The rest I would have to weed through. The shelf to the right had a bunch of old Playstation magazines Claudio had given to me, I didn't know what to do with those. Suddenly my closet seemed jam-packed.. how had I acquired so much stuff? On the floor I saw a "3D Spiderman" Master System game, so I opened the box and noticed it was a fake and so was the instruction booklet, if you could call it that.
Music: Verdena - 17 Tir nel Cortile

Wednesday Morning, 5.7.08: We were going on a road trip and instead of riding with the little kids I was going to ride with these prissy black women. One of them wanted a special kind of coke and was freaking out when I told her we didn't have it. But we looked in the back seat of the SUV the kids were riding in and found some, the other black woman was going to give it to a cheerleader. I didn't want to ride with them.
- Sandra was in a library talking loud, I could hear her from the back and I could tell people were getting annoyed. But she must have said something funny or true because a few people started clapping after she said something.
- Elisabeth was going to play tennis with me, and she asked me why I had waited so long to ask her. It was a good question. I started talking to her about "Cifras e letras", and there was a clip from the show where one of the contestants wanted a photo with everyone, but the hosts were saying they weren't supposed to get too close to the contestants. Then Paco Lodeiro said "chinos" instead of "xineses" and it was a huge deal caught on camera. This was a fun episode. She knew the way behind the soundstage and we found a bathroom with a giant fake plastic toilet that we used. It looked like "You Can't Say That on Television" was filmed here.
- Michael and I were in her car and we passed by what looked like a giant museum, but it was her parents' church. They were having a spaghetti supper with delicious cakes (I got two slices), but then I noticed a receipt and it was all pretty expensive. I was under the impression it was going to be free.
Music: Sugar Ray - Fly

Tuesday Morning, 5.6.08: Someone had dumped all my paper trash from the side of my trashcan at my desk inside of the trashcan. I suspected it was Gil, and was a little ticked.
- On our way to the car wash I tried talking to the girl who was driving about Brazil. I knew she had lived there with her boyfriend, but she didn't seem to want to talk much. Then she said she met him there when he was engaged (or married) to someone named "TV" (Teresa Veronica). I noticed there were towel drying racks in the car wash, like the ones in the apartment in Paris on House Hunters International. I told the girl that she needed to go to the theme park we had just passed by. I then proceeded to tell her about Astroworld, and how cool it was before they shut it down. I also told her about the summer in which I found out they had closed it.
- I stumbled upon a website Claudio had made, which was in the same format as the index for the Spanish consulates. It was all in Spanish, and he had photos of himself divided up between his age ranges, although many of them didn't load. He had a section about how much he liked blow jobs, with a photo I had never seen before. When I tried to click it, it disappeared.

Sunday Morning, 5.4.08: I was told to go to the Brazilian (?) embassy, which was on Bering, just like the Spanish embassy. I was in Tia Blanca's house, and I wanted to hide my backpack full of clothes before Andrew and Edwin got home, but I had waited around too long. I still tried to hide them under the stairs, but they might have seen me. I nervously went to the bathroom and put on clothes from the hamper, including a dirty bra. It was late Sunday afternoon, what if the cops stopped me before I got to the embassy? Why would I even go there? Edwin asked what I was doing, since I had been in the bathroom so long. But I couldn't trust any of them.
/ I was on a path with my mom and Ramona from Real Housewives NYC. My mom saw a metro map on the ground that listed a few Katy busses. I didn't realize there were that many that went to Katy. I flipped through the pages to see the bus schedules and realized that was wrong, there was only 1 Katy bus. We got home, which looked like Joao's apartment in Natal, and I saw that Pinky could get out of his cage. He was a lot whiter than I remembered. I was talking to Ramona, but I forgot her name. When I asked her what her name was she paused and then said "Dillard". "Oh yeah, Dilly. Sorry about that, I just blanked out for a moment"

Thursday Morning, 5.1.08: I liked Obama, as it turned out. He had a role in a movie I was watching and he was funny and hip, and didn't have a shirt on in some scenes. But then I thought it was odd that he would have time to devote to a movie during his campaign. I saw a really cool action short and then saw Kristan's name during the credits. She had played a part in the storyboard and costume design; I was impressed! We left, but not before scoring some free food set aside for other people. The bartender was going to let the person I was with have a free hamburger and fries, but I think we left before we got it.
- I found 2 pez dolls from the 50s and then 2 identical ones on the ground by the office building. Someone came in asking for yogurt caps so I directed her to Child Advocates across the street. It looked like an empty salon. I told her if she needed to come back that we were by the white building a block away (it had a Puma symbol on it), "but we aren't the white building"
Music: The Charlatans - And If I Fall

Wednesday Morning, 4.30.08: I went into Boston Market briefly with Christian, he said he wasn't going to get anything, he just needed to talk to someone. I said I didn't want to eat there either, and shortly after walking in I spotted my messenger bag on a table. Thankfully no one had snatched it. Kirston and I were getting together afterward. We had done a mockup of SNL, I was Tina Fey and he was probably Jimmy Fallon.

Tuesday Morning, 4.29.08: A mountain lion was chasing after me, I ran from the playground into my bedroom in the townhouse.
- I was at gamestop looking at the glass case. I saw some old SNES games and lots of Spice Girls VHS and their Greatest Hits collection.

Thursday Morning, 4.24.08: I was busy with my friends, but signed online for a short while. MSN automatically opened and Thiago started talking to me. I told him I had to leave soon, but that something was going on, and I wasn't sure exactly what. The fonts kept changing as I was typing. Later, Edwin and Nell and I were in the bathroom, and the two of them were vomiting bile from a green alcoholic drink we had all had. I thought it would just be a matter of time before I was vomiting, but then again I had barely drank any. The both of them were fairly drunk.

Wednesday Morning, 4.23.08: I wouldn't have guessed that I would be staying at German's again, but there I was in his bathroom (on the 2nd floor). This was, perhaps, the same big house I had once dreamt of him living in with his parents, after they became rich. He had to come in for a moment so I put a towel on. I hadn't shaved my legs so I tried to cover them. He started doing martial arts moves in front of the mirror.
/ My trip to New York was ending, and I was aimlessly wandering around the city at night. I looked at the photo I had in my hand, it was of me and Maggie Haun and Debra Karson. I was in an elegant red dress, and I looked so happy. I knew I would miss New York, I already did.
Music: Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

Tuesday Morning, 4.22.08: I went back to Afton Oaks, it was dimly lit and only the fat Indian teacher was there, not Ron Jon's mom. I had this sexy image to keep.
Music: Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own

Monday Morning, 4.21.08: Heidi was on my shoulder as I walked down Reims, I came home and saw that there was a door to the side of mine and it was open. I ran into my closet and saw that all my money was still there, miraculously.

Sunday Morning, 4.20.08: The Office- they moved everything around, I needed to get an old tearsheet for Barbers Hill Press. Michael used to have them in his desk but they were moved as well. Pam and Jim's desks were far apart, and I had my back to Jim's. Karen and Jim said this new layout was enough to make them quit, and I agreed and started bitching about the tearsheets. Then I found them on a shelf behind me. Everyone had left and I saw Pam in the hall crying. "Estas bien?... Are you ok?" I don't know why I had asked her in Spanish. She just looked at me and didn't respond.
- I wanted to sell Barbie ice cream at a stand in West Oaks Mall. Two of the flavors were vegan
- A bunch of white teens were on the beach. One of the guys lifted a girl's back bikini strap to see her tan line. Then he suggested they go skiing, where they could get sunburned by the UV rays.
- Thrift store by Sandra's house. I found what I thought were Sega Master Systems but they wound up being keyboards and other lame things with the Sega logos on them.
- Tia Blanca was taking me to visit Papi, but I wanted to go to Sak N Sav for something. I went to the left corner and saw a Spice Girls magazine. I also considered buying Sunbeam hamburger buns but I put them back. Mima or someone who looked just like her was there and said hi to me. I told Tia Blanca about this but she didn't respond. How could she be there if she was dead?
Music: Norah Jones - Don't Know Why

Saturday Morning, 4.19.08: Someone had abused me from 8-10 years old, that was a block of time where my memories were blank. He also abused 2 boys, maybe they were my brothers
- I looked out the window and there was ice and some snow on the ground
- They were trying to take my hello kitty planner (from 4th grade) away from me, it had an important receipt in it as well as other notes. I somehow got it before they could and needed a new hiding spot. I was in my room in the townhouse, I hid the planner underneath my mattress but figured it would just be a matter of time before they found it. I needed to go downstairs to photocopy the receipt, although having the original would be much better.
- I was in a pool doing the butterfly on my back like I had seen in "Hotel Very Welcome", then Natalie was swimming with me and 2 Japanese girls came to pick us up. We went to my dad's room and turned on the tv, the entrance was like that of a hotel, I had hoped nothing smelly or embarrassing was around. They laid in the bed exhausted but I had to put the sheets on. We had slept there the night before without sheets and hadn't even noticed.
- Tia Blanca came in to use my bathroom and asked if I had vomited in the toilet.
Music: Verdena (end of song)

Thursday Morning, 4.17.08: I made a post in cheapvegan asking about cheese substitutes for pizza. Mentioned my tahina recipe for eggplant parm, as well as the different kinds of ice cream that I had bought, including 1 dream brand of cherry ice cream.
- I had a doctor's appointment in the morning, so I'm not sure why I went to work with Marie. I took the bus back home afterward and waited for the 25 to go back to work. As it was coming I realized that I should probably eat something since I wouldn't be home for lunch. My cell phone said 8:01, but after taking it off of sleep mode it said 9:30. I went into my secret crawl space on the side of my condo because my door was messing up. I had a lot of stuff with me so I had to leave it down while I got inside. A white boy and his mother passed by, he asked what I was doing. Earlier we had been playing a Nerf video game where you had to shoot a foam ball at a target at the most mph, and then navigate through an underwater world looking for vortices. I told the mom that my door was broken so I was going through the crawl space. "Why don't you just use the back door?" "Well I live in a one-bedroom condo so there isn't one". It seemed as though they would be back, but I didn't mind, they seemed nice.

Wednesday Morning, 4.16.08: Going to a Spice Girls reunion show with Kristan in a small auditorium, I guess they couldn't sell out big places anymore. During the intermission we all walked around, we saw some gay guys that were waiting to get in for the concert the next day, they were going to camp out for 24 hours. I spotted Mel C on the escalator next to me. I told her during the breaks we tried to see which Spice Girls we could find, but she and Emma were the hardest to catch. She led me upstairs into a university library or common room. Up here she had a new name and a new identity, no one recognized her somehow. She was a student and people treated her as such. During the intermission I did interpretative dance to an old Radiohead song, but afterward I realized that I kept my Zebra robe on instead of revealing my red robe underneath (like the others were wearing). I had almost bumped into someone during the dance when I had closed my eyes. I was sweaty by the time I took my seat. Simon Fuller was there, and was as svengali as ever.
/ Later, as we were in the airport about to leave, I tried to find Kristan. I saw someone at a payphone that was dressed like Kristan, but it was an old Asian women.

Tuesday Afternoon, 4.15.08: Taking the bus to Mission Bend by accident. Going into the woods, I regretted not having gotten off earlier

Tuesday Morning, 4.15.08: I found a headset that I thought would work for Claudio's PSP at the dollar store but the end part looked cut off. I decided not to risk it
- I had an Iranian exchange student living with me who didn't want to do anything. I told him we could go to the waterwall but apparently he had already seen it and didn't seem too impressed.
- I was in Walgreens with Wylie and some of his friends, the only computers they had for sale were macs and I proclaimed my hatred for them. But as he pointed out, there was a PC mixed in there, it was somewhat old and still had XP on it, but it went very slowly. I saw that someone from poor_skills was there with her metal clothes rack, and had asked the community if there was a way she could use the rack for something else because it was just taking up space. I told her I had the same problem and I was glad she asked. "I mean, if it had shelves I would use it to hold stuff but it doesn't". One of the macs had Wylie's friend's page on it, he was in poor_skills as well, but had just recently joined.
/ I was with some of the cast of Reno 911!, and we had to dodge the bombing going off in Afghanistan. The KKK members were there and were getting us in trouble. I almost got shot at, I freaked out and used my empty plastic water jug to hide my face as I ran. From a distance I could see the rest of the cast accidentally lighting fire to an American flag.

Monday Morning, 4.14.08: The orange Adidas shoelaces were the cause of a lot of trouble. Dawn was approaching and I lay in bed while a car alarm went off outside.
/ Fauzeya had her "Nungoo" shirt on in her facebook photo

Sunday Morning, 4.13.08: Mike Bajsel gave me a ride home from the mall in his new car. As we were on the freeway I asked him why his parents decided to give him a new car. He explained that now that his brother had become a farmer, he was going to take over and continue farming at the house. But all they had now that his brother had left was a goat, which I found amusing. I thought it would be funny if we dated, after having known each other in middle school and not done anything then.

Saturday Morning, 4.12.08: I got off the bus downtown and then realized I didn't bring my backpack with me, and it had my new laptop in it. Even though I knew I would be going back, there were a lot of ghetto high school students and I didn't want to risk anything. I ran to the nearest bus stop and plead with the driver to let me get my backpack out. He was going to make me pay a dollar but I told him I would be out in a minute and that I could use my stored value card (but he reminded me that those expired in March). Eventually he let me grab my backpack. The laptop had fallen out but I found it nearby and no one had stolen anything. I ran out of the bus and thanked the driver. It looked as though I was in New York City.
/ They were expecting us so I took my shoes off and ran over the sand. There were a lot of people at the beach, but this didn't bother me. Kristan and I made it to the shack on the beach where a member of the occult led us into her underground chamber. She told Kristan to go down one way, and I was to go with the other girls. We sat at a large table in a library and I looked around for signs of Kristan, trying not to make this obvious.

Thursday Afternoon, 4.10.08: The waiter came and made my dish look pretty. He took some chocolate marshmallow ice cream and put it to the side, a meat dish, and some couscous like I had requested. One of Claudio's hot pockets was there as well, apparently there wasn't any regular bread. I unraveled it like a tortilla wrap and took a bite, it was disgusting despite how good it smelled
Music: Peeping Tom - We're Not Alone

Wednesday Morning, 4.9.08: Kristan asked if she could borrow my thrift store sunglasses
- Mirtha (or Maria) had asked for more money at the shop because of all the work she had done. She was telling this to me in English, but wanted me to talk to Mei about it. When Mei found out she flipped, and started crying out of frustration, knowing she didn't have the money and that things were falling apart.

Tuesday Morning, 4.8.08: I thought about how happy I was that Claudio and I had stayed together all these years. I was crossing the train tracks on Richmond and looked over to see that the train was approaching.

Monday Morning, 4.7.08: I lived in a nice big condo in the Northeast (or maybe near the Galleria in Houston), I had just left a camp where I was volunteering for the day. Macca was driving me home and stopped by for a while. It was my birthday and I had imagined a small get together with some of my closest friends, but I hadn't called any of them so of course no one really came by. I had an excel spreadsheet printed with their names and contact information. Courtney Pepper came by for a little while and we all hung out in my kitchen briefly. Joel Madden, or someone who looked like him, came by afterward and I put some music on from my computer. I was about to skip one of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's songs but he said to leave it because he liked it. I told him I could check him out a copy from the library if he wanted, of either of their cds.
/ Val and Alex had broken up, but were still friends. I was in my dad's room when Alex came by, we chatted briefly. I was in my closet putting my pajama pants on and I played some music even though it was late. Val's mom must have thought I was rude to be listening to music when people were trying to sleep, so I lowered it some.

Sunday Morning, 4.6.08: Some little girls from Brazil led me into their house, down a hallway. There was a couple making out and some of the co-workers from The Office were spying on them. I took 3 post-it notes to the bathroom with me, where they found Phyllis's rotting body in one of the stalls. I guess they assumed I had killed her, but this was not the case. Ms. Nelson was trying to get them to hear my side of the story, I tried to tell them that I had just taken the post-it notes in there out of habit.
- Google sent email out, the maximum hours would be back to 40 not 30.
Music: Pitbull - Ay Chico

Friday Morning, 4.4.08: I was in the back of a small school bus with an old, grumpy lady. We had stopped for a while so I tried to switch seats, and eventually got off. Outside the sun was rising, I stood outside of back exit of a school (perhaps) with a few friends. There were weird red fruits at the top of the small concrete stairs. Adrienne took one and hazily wafted into the Napa cabbage fields, walking on top of the sea of green.
/ Claudio played bass in a band with his friends. I got a 360 view into their set-up in his friend's basement, there were hammocks to the side. The music wasn't bad, and the bass lines were simple so Claudio had no problem playing them.

Thursday Afternoon, 4.3.08: Kristan and I went to visit May Ann at UT, she lived in a dorm that looked like apartments around a courtyard. I had no idea that I had two mailboxes, the whole time I was living there I just checked one, but there were some along the side that were much bigger for packages. May Ann apparently also didn't check hers, because it was overflowing. I filled a bin with her mail and dropped it off by her door.

Monday Morning, 3.31.08: I was standing by a cliff in Japan talking to someone, I moved to the side when I saw an old lady trying to get through. She smiled at me.
/ I called my mom who was on vacation. I was in the Seattle area around a national park (with my dream little brother?) and we were trying to escape the zombie bees in the area. We had to run to a cabin for shelter, the sun was setting.

Saturday Morning, 3.29.08: I noticed from the bus window that there was a truckload of money where Vic's BBQ used to be. I imagined myself getting a ladder and getting up into the trailer. It was very sunny out, so I noticed people moving from the right side of the bus to the left. I stayed where I was.
/ We were trying to film in a podunk town, I saw what looked like abandoned Diamond Shamrocks along the way.
/ The star of the film didn't know where he was. He had a card that let him know his identity, he had to make it to the street specified so he asked the bus driver about it. English was not his first language. I knew that he was supposed to be in Phoenix, not New York, but I couldn't give that away. I went to the bathroom with Claudio, then realized I was in the men's bathroom. He waited for me outside crying, he had missed the plane.

Friday Morning, 3.28.08: My mom knew Chapu was in the bathroom and said loudly that I didn't like her. "Yeah, and I know you can't stand her" Chapu wanted me to go with her but Michael fell to the floor, wrapped in a blanket, shuddering. I told her I should take care of the 2 sick people "you mean 3" that's right, my mom was ill as well. But after she left and we were walking up the stairs Michael told me that she had faked it all along.

Thursday Morning, 3.27.08: Claudio had a container of fish byproducts, I was grossed out and told him not to put it in my breadcrumbs (on the craps table). Sucking Claudio's dick in the supermarket line.

Wednesday Morning, 3.26.08: I learned that "arroyo" was "arrogo" in my Portuguese class, even though it sounded wrong to me. The professor started listing students' names.
/ Outside of a beachhouse running through sand to get to Claudio. I saw the moon reflecting on sun (huge). Adrienne corrected me and said it was the sun reflecting on the moon, but I didn't believe her.

Tuesday Morning, 3.25.08: On the bus with my mom, I had brought a sack of potatoes from Spain but there were rotten bananas in there as well.

Monday Morning, 3.24.08: I realized I hadn't returned my movies to Blockbuster and was freaking out about the restocking fee.
- In apt with living room light no longer working. My gay lover was in the apt next to mine and he asked who was on the bottom. I had my computer on the bar where it used to be, and I was constantly online. I went running through the apartment looking for something or someone (the layout was completely different) and the kitchen had been blocked off by junk. I had a GBA cartridge of "Super Princess Peach" (it was pink) and discovered that you could play it without the console, it just went really slow and not all the buttons worked. Eventually it was in color but I had died by then. Claudio already knew of this trick.
/ We took a bus to where we needed to go, but we had to pass by West Hollywood which was far out of the way. "It's going to take about an hour" I told them. Paris Hilton was on the double decker bus with me and told me I was a good imaginary friend. Then she said I would look good with bangs and I agreed, telling her I had been thinking about it and others had told me the same thing. Will got on the bus, he had a big bubble jacket on, and I introduced the two. It was quiet for a little while and then Will said "I hate you" to Paris, which was hilarious and shocking. I tried to tell him that she was really nice, even though maybe I didn't agree with her consumerist ways.
Music: [dream rock song]

Sunday Morning, 3.23.08: My UPS labels for Dish Network had arrived, Mei and Gil were about to open them and asked me what they were for.
- Someone had just cut himself in the leg, and ran out after hiding his copy of the Merck Manual under a ceramic duck on the bottom of a bookshelf.

Saturday Morning, 3.22.08: Val was living in Mima's house, she was probably ashamed that she lived in the ghetto. I was with another friend and I gave them a group hug, saying they were my best online friends. She said we knew each other now so that wasn't really the case anymore.
- Mei had gained weight and we were trying to figure out why.

Friday Morning, 3.21.08: Jerry sat in Lewis's chair and I told him that everything that had happened to him I had dreamed.
- In a flea market with Claudio

Thursday Morning, 3.20.08: I was in a large room with Mel B and Montessori students. My horizontal shelf from my room in the townhouse was in the center of the room. Mel B said she wanted teletubby figurines, which I just happened to have so I offered them to her. She also said she wanted a "pink flamengo", which I couldn't understand at first as it came out garbled.

Wednesday Morning, 3.19.08: I stuck my hand in my mouth while we were waiting for the bus and pulled part of 1 of my molars out. It was loose and had been bothering me for days.

Tuesday Morning, 3.18.08: The fire alarm went off, they tried to go down to the Galleria but we knew that would be crazy and took the longer way which wound up being faster. There was a black dog giving birth to Cabbage Patch dolls. I talked to Jerry for a while, I asked him how his new job was going and he seemed hesitant to answer. I could see that they wanted him to answer the phones but he was too busy drawing a train and got fired while his co-workers did his job.
Music: Kelly Clarkson - Since You've Been Gone

Monday Morning, 3.17.08: In London with Val (or Adrienne), the Spice Girls were standing in the street and fans were all around, I realized how lucky we were that we came to London 1 day and got to see them. I thought to myself that they must really care about the fans, at least the British ones. We followed them into a hospital where I tried to get a photo with Victoria, Geri and Mel B. They seemed disinterested.
/ Alex gave me all of Val's old email addresses for some reason, or maybe it was just 1 long one.

Sunday Morning, 3.16.08: I was moving back to Barcelona, I decided I would use easypiso again and try to find a roommate as soon as possible. I had 7 Blockbuster movies to exchange, and I had a few picked out that German also had. He got in the elevator with a girl, carrying the movies in a bag. I showed him mine and told him I needed to exchange them, and we went up a street looking for the only Blockbuster in town. I called Claudio and asked him where it was but the phone was garbling his voice, I eventually gave up and hung up. German wanted to stop looking, even though I was sure it was close by as I saw the bar we had passed by the last time I went there. An Asian guy got kicked out for not having a savings account, "maybe you should open a checking account". We must have been the only ones speaking in English.
- I was waiting for the 25 at the wrong bus stop, I wanted to go to the townhouse. I told the driver this and got off at the next stop, without having paid, and had to walk even farther. Before the bus came I asked Claudio if he had read that issue of "Semana" Saturday or Sunday. "Si", I guess he didn't hear me well. The article was about preventing hair loss

Saturday Morning, 3.15.08: In a room with girls, I didn't want to change in front of them so I went into the closet even though the door opened for a moment. A girl gave me a nervous smile before I went in, she probably realized I'd been wearing the same bra.
/ We had to ask Farida if we could wash and dry our clothes in the utility closet. She said washing was ok but we had to dry our clothes in the trunk of the car. I was mad about this, but my friend was the one who asked her everything because if she had known I was washing my clothes there too she wouldn't have let us. I found underwear I hadn't seen in 10 years, flowery stuff, I couldn't believe I still had them.

Friday Morning, 3.14.08: Kristan reminded me about the money for the Spice Girls codes I sold for her on ebay, "But I sent you the check for $71 and you cashed it, remember?"

Thursday Morning, 3.13.08: Playing DDR with Mel B during a Mariah Carey concert. I was self-conscious about my hairy legs
- Calling Juan and his girlfriend answered. He had a 2 year old at home and when she told him I called he was in tears. They were both very happy to hear from me.

Tuesday Morning, 3.11.08: "Never gonna give you up" was playing while I was trying to beat the black bulto of a ghost with a pan in the basement. Michael was there, watching.

Monday Morning, 3.10.08: Tried to leave my phone number for Cookie, she seemed disinterested and surprised that my boyfriend was Spanish (or so I thought)
/ I was whisked away to the Key West ferry, we ran onto it without paying before realizing it was the ferry. We had lucked out completely.

Sunday Morning, 3.9.08: I tried hiding in a Japanese man's closet (which looked like my dads) but he found me, even though I was in costume. I was spying on him, and I noticed he had switched out the polaroid of the new house with a different one.

Saturday Morning, 3.8.08: A man told us that they were giving away free energy drinks on the West side, we could get there by taking Broadway. We ran where he told us to, into an office building, but it looked as though the giveaway had ended. My (dream) friend found a few pastries left over by the air vent, so we stuck them in our bag and took the elevator down. I ate part of a cinnamon roll and asked my friend what we should tell the rest of them.
- Kirston knocked on my door in the morning, he had brought a few VHS tapes and other things for me, I tried to get him to go away nicely
/ I jumped into my twin sized bed, which was a foot away from the wall with the window on it. I couldn't believe the Spice Girls weren't as close as I thought they were. Gwen Steffani started telling me about the start of No Doubt. There was another girl in the band, and they had taken a jet to Australia to get their haircut before the group had even finished recording the Tragic Kingdom album. The record company paid for it, and they couldn't believe it. She then told me about almost getting abducted when she travelled around the Cayman Islands.
Music: No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom

Friday Morning, 3.7.08: Going through the dark dorms in UT, I needed to find a bathroom and I accidentally went into the men's where I saw Thomas Morgan. I shut the door right away and went into a small unisex one next door since the lady's was full. I was telling my friend that even though I had missed my senior year, I was still going to try to graduate on time by taking the final exams of the few credits I needed. I was 1 or 2 years ahead on everything except for English. My friend was arguing with me saying that I needed chemistry. I didn't want anything that would hurt my GPA.
Music: Spice Girls - Mama

Thursday Morning, 3.6.08: Freeing a bird from the zoo after he talked to me, Mr. Smith went after him. Me and Clau were waiting in line to go on a ride, I saw a Monty Python SNES game on the wall
Music: The Wallflowers - The Difference

Tuesday Morning, 3.4.08: I was at my rich friend's house, but his mom kept treating me like the servant, I even told her that when she told me to get the door. We were holed up for a reason, there were zombies or evil spirits or something outside. I answered the door and a blonde preppy girl stood there, insisting that my friend come out because she wouldn't come in. I went through the hall and relayed what she had said to me. We eventually banded together on the lawn, with our jewel encrusted crucifixes on.
- Claudio and I had gone on the beach in Barcelona, but now we were on a busy street waiting for the bus home. There were lots of "niñatos" there, and it was hard to see which bus was ours.

Saturday Morning, 3.1.08: The skanky girl from "Superbad" was talking about when she and Claudio had sex, and he was trying to ignore her. I was fuming.

Friday Morning, 2.29.08: Mei bitched me out and said I couldn't play music anymore. "Well, I need my music" and offered to just use my headphones. - Killing zombies with a knife, with Claudio. Scheming how to avoid them, the media was avoiding the subject. We were in a big house on a cliff, we drove to Papi's part of town where I saw a Mexican woman who had become one. I slashed her and her daughters, but another woman I slashed came back to life and looked normal.

Thursday Morning, 2.28.08: A young schoolboy's body and face had been burned by a bully. He was cute and could have looked like Jim from The Office, as I saw on the powerpoint presentation.
- On a ferry or train with Claudio. We were waiting to board outside and it wasn't as cold as I thought it would be in Amsterdam. The seats were rickety and my seat didn't have a tray table in front of it, as I noticed when they were serving doughnuts. I was in a pissed off mood, Claudio got up and we looked for a seat together, even though it was a pretty crowded ride.

Wednesday Morning, 2.27.08: I was in Brazil, on a mountain or cliff overlooking the northeast, and thought about how Josie inspired me to go back.
- With Wylie in his tiny store in the mall. His friends had given him a lot of pins that he decorated the wall with. I was trying to think of some guy's name... "Michael? Wait, then there'd be two Mikes..."
- Israeli schoolchildren and I were on a mountain trying to climb up it. A midget child was there, but I held onto him and threw him up last. Everyone looked like they were having fun when I had to leave, so I waved my hands and fake slow ran away.

Tuesday Morning, 2.26.08: I was building the "Houston Discount Sales" ad, the 3rd item was M&Ms but I didn't know if they were plain or peanut. I asked J-Lo if her baby was going to be plain or peanut, but she seemed confused. This was after the Spice Girls concert.

Monday Morning, 2.25.08: I was clicking through all these websites about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama that I forgot that there were independent candidates. A yellow and black ladybug passed by
Music: Verdena - Il Suicidio del Samurai

Sunday Morning, 2.24.08: The Israeli girl I was walking with was dying, and she was telling me about her condition on the way to the garage. I felt really bad for her, and I tried looking on the bright side, saying that at least she knew when she was going to die so she could do a lot of things in life before it was over. Her arm was losing blood and she wanted to phone her mom so she could die at home. She tried dialing the number but it wouldn't go through, but it started with a bunch of zeros so I knew something was missing. I told her it needed an area code, and helped her find the right one. Her mother was a nurse in a New York hospital. She seemed ungrateful that I helped her and was concerned about her, but maybe she was just preoccupied.
Music: Pitty - I Wanna Be
- In a museum with Kristan, the computers were like the ones at the library. We went to the 2nd floor and passed by a gift shop
/ Mel B was being interviewed, she had heavy eyeliner on. She was talking about her new tv show that aired around 4:30am on Thursdays. Music: Dirty Bomb

Friday Morning, 2.22.08: Visiting Clau, he left (with his grandfather? to visit me in the US?) and I stayed with Mila. Kristan came to see me, and we were going to a concert in Madrid, a shitty pop group that I guess I kind of liked. But I couldn't find the e-ticket in my yahoo account and was starting to freak out. I was in my room in the townhouse, and BJ was on my pillow, laying on her side. I asked Mila if she could accompany us to the airport, and she seemed kind of mad that we were only staying 1 day. I think I tried telling her that Mei would eventually be coming to see us.

Wednesday Morning, 2.20.08: I started working at Circuit City (or CompUSA) even though I thought they were going out of business. Some woman called and asked about a specific computer model, when I couldn't find it I asked one of the managers and he laughed and said it didn't exist. He then gave me a hot pink cell phone and said I could use it for business. Claudio was sitting to the side playing PSP. David worked there, I could see him from a distance, he had long blonde hair now but otherwise looked the same. I was excited about saying hi to him, but decided to put it off until I finished my work. We then got on the bus, maybe to go downtown.

Sunday Morning, 2.17.08: We were on the bus on the way to a field trip, I had to pee for 4 hours while we took the scenic route. I saw the 18 Baytown bus stop and realized we didn't go all that far. May Ann and Cristina Fernandez were talking about Daniel, we were asking May Ann what happened to him and she said he went to Ivy League for grad school. Cristina was impressed. "Wait, why are you asking May Ann questions about your own brother??"

Saturday Afternoon, 2.16.08: Alina's stroller outside my window, Farida would come looking for it soon.
/On the bus with claudio on the HOV lane. The Asian female driver knew Mei and pointed to a clock that said 5pm. She said Mei wouldn't call until 9:30 because she was busy working

Saturday Morning, 2.16.08: Olivia Kuan had changed so much, but I still remembered when I had gone to her room in high school and she had a beanie baby collection.

Friday Morning, 2.15.08: Mei and Gil said bye and left me alone in the office, it was 6:44

Thursday Morning, 2.14.08: I was in a parking garage and snuck down where I saw lots of old refrigerators and washing machines (and washing sinks) for sale. I made my way to the townhouse dining room.
- My mom and I parked in the teacher's lot (at Bellaire?) to go to Val's graduation. As we walked in I could see colorful Egyptian hieroglyphics moving to our rhythm. The place was packed, we made our way to the left.

Wednesday Morning, 2.13.08: Claudio and I were in the thrift store by my house with Miguel. Shortly after getting there I spotted a bin with a white Sega Saturn, it was inside of a Genesis box, but they wanted too much for it even though the price on the box said $6. I took the Saturn out of the box and thought we could pay less if we asked them to price just that.

Tuesday Morning, 2.12.08: In Ms. Nelson's class afterschool. I was in a towel and wanted to shower, she got mad at me but I grabbed a travel sized shampoo and body wash and told her I had clothes with me.
/ I went into a large empty room with hardwood floors, two dream friends were with me, a guy and a girl, but maybe the girl was Najla. A crazy guy grabbed us and said the other two he trusted, they looked wholesome. I wondered what that meant about me. They then got into an argument over sea and land, and I could see their argument unfold from an areal view.

Monday Morning, 2.11.08: In dining room, accidentally called Tony then he called me back and asked how to hook up the telephone. Then I was telling Rudy and Val that I had put a metered phone line for a while but they charged me too many fees.

Saturday Morning, 2.9.08: I ran down the stairs in the Asian house (actually the father was white and the kids were mixed), I met my friend outside and we went onto the train. I could see lots of Asian families standing around on the way there. We passed through a Kwik-E-Mart where Ryan Edwards was talking about a Saturn game I had and had just been thinking about, even though I hadn't remembered the name of it. Carlos Ayala was there, and Bart's grandfather was getting pulled apart down below.
- I got out of Jennelle's car, she had parked under a carport by the university. Her parents said we were going to Berlin and Montreal that month. I wasn't looking forward to the cold weather but was still very happy that I was going with Jennelle and didn't have to pay.

Friday Morning, 2.8.08: Road tripping with Jessica to Mexico? We stopped at a gas station convenience store that was also someone's 2 story old house. I looked through a book of national parks, and I considered buying it but saw it was $28 and my dad could get that book for free with his AAA membership. I was spending a lot of time looking at it and realized we needed to get a move on.

Tuesday Morning, 2.5.08: My mom and I were traveling through dimensions, a guy wanted to see naked photos of girls, we were standing at the bus stop. He found a RBD booklet with fake naked photos after he had looked through a similar booklet with drawings of butterflies and flowers.

Monday Morning, 2.4.08: Marie was with me and told me that there would be no more soy milk machine at the office. I didn't know how what I would eat at the company lunches if I couldn't make my lentil burgers. We went to Kirston's house and a girl kicked me out. "Hey I know who lives here!"
Music: Hoobastank - Reason

Friday Morning, 1.25.08: In New York with Tia Blanca, coming from Rio, we went to a fancy restaurant where the waiters kept trying to take my food away thinking I was done, and kept annoying me. They offered Tia Blanca another dish and she took it. I told them to just leave my stuff there and sounded bothered. I looked at the slices of cakes and wondered how much they were going to cost. I couldn't spend $3000 on them.

Wednesday Morning, 1.23.08: Heidi wanted to cuddle with me in my bed, but I was afraid I would squash her. I called Tia Blanca at 4am to make sure she was going to the airport, but then realized that it was probably too late to be calling and I had probably woken someone up.

Tuesday Morning, 1.22.08: I visited Jessica by taking the 71 in Miami. When I got home I had the impression she was standing outside my door.

Monday Morning, 1.21.08: I was with Claudio in his bedroom, his mom was in the bathroom which was behind his bed.
- I went for a swim in the indoor pool, then headed for the buffet where I tried to fit too many things on a small plate. Katie Gilger laughed at me and the noodle coming out of my mouth. I interrupted May Ann unintentionally.
/ German and I walked out of a parking garage, he tried to pay with his student card but it didn't work anymore. When we got out I looked onto the street and told him that I missed living in Barcelona.

Sunday Morning, 1.20.08: The mall was about to close, but on my way out I discovered that I didn't have my messenger bag. I ran through the hallway to an area where someone was giving a speech and the audience was sitting in metal fold-away chairs. Everyone's bags were on the floor near the back. I found mine and left through the exit that was farther from my apartment, but much relieved.
- The prices were good in the bodega I stepped into, reminiscent of the 5 peso stores in Monterrey. I filled my small shopping cart with things and scanned the clothes which were not priced as low (I saw some dark green plaid pants among other things). There were sample cereal packs and larger versions of the same cereal. I saw that the "fun sized" nerd boxes were only a penny each, so I scooped many of them into my cart before checking out. The prices were not as low as advertised, which bothered me immensely. I told the cashier that I just wanted the nerds, the only things that were at the advertised price.
- Asia Argento was laying in the bed in my dad's room, the curtains were open and lots of light poured in. Her mom looked younger than I remembered, and spoke to her in Italian. At one point she called her a slut, and I was amused that the word for slut was the same in Italian. The more I thought about it, the more it made sense that the word would be the same.
- I had a bird's eye view of the region of Australia I was visiting, I would soon be hang-gliding and jumping off cliffs into the water as well. I was scared but excited by the thought of it.
- I decided to put my old disposable contacts in, and hoped they wouldn't fuck my eyes up.
Music: Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten

Saturday Morning, 1.19.08: The tenants of an apartment building teamed up and decided to kill an annoying old lady neighbor. Adrienne was part of the team, and it was my understanding that they went through with it. I stopped for a while and opened a tin cylinder that I had filled with water in hopes that fish would grow in it. The water smelled bad and was red from the rust. There was a medium-sized roach inside, but no fish. I asked someone what I had been doing wrong.
/ I saw the lady I thought they had killed, I passed by the rotunda near the Telepizza in Vigo and tried to warn Adrienne. "Didn't you guys kill her?" I thought she would seek revenge but instead she called them one by one and gave them 50 euros or more. She reminded me of Claudio's grandmother. We were standing under a construction ramp and it was fairly cold out.
Music: Limp Bizkit - Rollin

Friday Morning, 1.18.08: I was walking along some condensed ghetto at night, a little scared, but I went into an auditorium where it was warmer. I had seen neon signs that said "Amsterdam" in a bar, that was going into the slightly nicer part of town.
/ I met up with Wylie and his friends in a hole-in-the-wall place, but accidentally blew him off when I saw Amanda. She told me she had a huge crush on "Adam" from BHS, and I was trying to think of which Adam it was. I asked her if he had glasses, what color his hair was. From her description I thought it would be Bergen but we walked into the room where he was playing chess and it was Terry from "Reno 911!" He was so nice and cute, but very gay, and after we walked out I told her he was "flaming". I walked by an old house, the sidewalk was pushed up and not level.

Thursday Morning, 1.17.08: Air France was figuring out how to deal with my compensation for the canceled flight. They decided to just refund my money, but that was not good enough for me. I stood with Claudio in my room, by the edge of the bed.
- Val's sister got kidnapped, maybe. It was on the news, her friend had on a white wifebeater underneath a tank top, I thought it looked nice. "She's out of control... and she's only 17!" I assumed she was talking about her spending habits.

Wednesday Morning, 1.16.08: I was in the upstairs bathroom in the townhouse, wearing a weird sweater on top of my blue fleece pajama shirt. My tits were bigger than I remembered, but maybe it was because I was about to be on my period. Claudio and I were making out on a chaise lounge.
- Dalia rolling with a stroller on a wooden bridge, I ran out to the field and Mei gave me gum, I was going to choose cherry but she told me to pick the green apple, which was in a metallic package. We then stopped into Sam's and I saw a display for the green apple gum. There were mini African masks made from the gum, each one was unique and cute. I stood back to take a photo, the place was pretty busy and I went to the jewelry section so I could get the entire display in the photo. People were in the way, I wasn't very happy with how it turned out.

Tuesday Morning, 1.15.08: Kristan and I went to her small (dream)house, the setting reminded me of rural Iceland. Feng Ying was there and I was happy to see her again.
- Mike and I went for a ride around River Oaks. We turned after Avalon and as he (or I?) was on the phone I noticed that there were a lot of logs posted up for Halloween. It was as though things went in slow motion then.
- I brought a guy home, and after suppressing my feelings I finally grabbed him and we made out on my living room floor. He had a PSP and a Nintendo DS, and was putting his games away when I surprised him.

Monday Morning, 1.14.08: I could see Huyen Hgyuen and Gita walking down the street close to where I lived. I hurried home to give Mengfei cute black sandals that I had bought for $1.50. I went into my closest to see if I could give her the shoes Jakeline had bought for me, or my old flowery pair of panties, but decided the latter would be weird and remembered the former had been returned. Mengfei loved the sandals. She was standing in my kitchen and looked shocked or scared. She said she had seen a fly, but used what I understood to be the latin, scientific word for fly. "Oh, psh... I thought you had seen a flying cockroach or something." She looked grossed out. "Not that I have those..."
- I was playing the Taz game, there was a part where Taz was in a dark level and he had to spin into a bunch of enemies on different levels of the screen.
- I somehow got the Sega Genesis to work, and I hugged Claudio as Beast of the Sword 2 was on the screen.
- Claudio told me to meet him at the stairs, perhaps it was going to be our first time together. I could see from the glass door that there were a lot of soldiers shooting bows and arrows, I wondered how I would get to him. I managed to dodge them and he grabbed me and took me with him under the stairs where he had been hiding. We kissed passionately.
Music: Shakira - Whatever, Whenever

Sunday Morning, 1.13.08: Val was rushing me to pack my stuff up. She was also packing, and I think her sister was as well. I thought my stuff would fit in two boxes and my luggage but I had a lot more than I thought I did. We had until 6pm, which was later than I had originally thought, so that was somewhat of a relief. I turned around and saw my closet in the townhouse.
- I was trying to buy a bus ticket in secret, I was in the bathroom downstairs when my dad got on the line and said he wanted to use the phone. I told him to wait 5 minutes but of course he only waited 1 or 2 and started bitching again. I gave up and put the phone back, but I unplugged the cord while he was standing by me and refused to plug it back. It was childish, but I was angry and frustrated.
/ I was in a van with my father and Farida, she said something to me and I smiled or agreed even though I still hated her. We parked under the bleachers at a professional sports event.

Saturday Early Morning, 1.12.08: In a van with Kristan, 2 soccer kids got in but eventually left. We were in Miami.

Thursday Afternoon, 1.10.08: I was in a train station, I had missed my flight to Amsterdam and I was with a group of Spaniards walking through what looked like a factory with a greenhouse in it. When I got to work I went through the back door and saw that things had been changed around a bit. There was a table by the entrance and Marie was standing by it. Debra Hurwitz was there telling her about Amsterdam. "Oh did your flight get canceled, too?" It hadn't, and I probably would have been on the same flight as her if my flight there had not been canceled.

Wednesday Afternoon, 1.9.08: There had been a car crash, it was just a brief moment, I think I saw Claudio's face covered in blood and I could see mine covered in blood as well. I stumbled about, I'm not sure if I was laughing or crying.

Tuesday Afternoon, 1.8.08: Val's mom had said something to me from the stairway in the townhouse. I came to my room with Claudio, an earthquake or some other natural disaster had just taken place. We looked out of the window, at first it looked as though the houses around us were ok, but Claudio insisted they weren't so I took a better look and saw that they had all collapsed, an expanse filled with piles of grey rubble. It appeared as though ours was the only house that was untouched.
/ I got on a small motor boat, Sharmila or someone similar was there. We could see houses on either side of us as we drifted on the water.
- I hadn't been home in a while. My apartment was different, the bathroom was closer to the entrance. Someone had left me a small rug that was filled with hissing cockroaches, and my bathroom was a mess. Wylie's friend came over and used the bathroom, I tried to clean things up a bit before she did but I still felt embarrassed.

Sunday Afternoon, 1.6.08: Heidi was in the townhouse, we were at the bottom of the stairway when I discovered that I could take the top part of her beak off and it would grow back in a matter of seconds. When it was off I could see her tongue. I then accidentally took her head off and placed it on a stair, frightened that I had killed her. To my surprise I saw that she was not only still alive but could squawk and blink with her head unattached. I put it back, there were two tendons coming from her neck and her head attached to one of them. I took her head off again and attached it to the other tendon to see what would happen. She was fine except that when she perched on my finger she used the opposite claw to start with, and this confused her. I figured the tendon had something to do with this; it was as if attaching her head to the other tendon had made her the equivalent of left-handed.
- Claudio and some of his extended family from his father's side came with me to what looked like a train station along the coast. The ceilings were high and pyramid-like, all glass. I didn't know what I was going to play on the piano, and right before I was called in I realized I hadn't studied at all, so I became very nervous. The light in the room I was called into was dim, and I was called into an adjacent soundproof room later. (It could be that this was the inside of the music school on Westheimer). The teacher gave me something completely unexpected, something that I could not have prepared for. It was 3 drawings, I guess I was supposed to play anything I wanted, I didn't really understand what I was supposed to do and asked questions that she would not answer.

Friday Morning, 1.4.08: I had to buy a copy of "Siddhartha" for class, so I wondered through an outdoor market until I stopped at a small bookstand. There were a lot of German books; I thought I wouldn't find what I needed until I turned back and found a lot of copies, they all looked new. 25 cents, there were 2 different editions, I preferred the modernist body sculpture cover with red and orange hues. There was a different one for 16 cents, but it was used and had been heavily highlighted. I took a new one, then envisioned Ms. Quaite getting mad at me for having a Spanish language version of the book, or getting lost during a class discussion because I could not easily find the passage we were talking about. My argument would be that in the 2nd year (no, the 3rd) we studied works that had been translated into English.
/ The red headed lush from "The Office" got mad at the boss on the beach, so a fat co-worker, perhaps the guy from that show I couldn't remember the title of, came out and said "yo soy el jefe", grunting like a gorilla. The real boss said "y soy yo... el jefe normal". It was all done in a horrible voiceover.

Thursday Morning, 1.3.08: I was in Claudio's room with Mila, Claudio, and Andres, Michael was asleep in Claudio's bed. We started rolling joints, I suggested we use bible pages, or yellow pages if we ran out of papers. I woke Michael up to see if she wanted one but she sounded annoyed that I woke her up. I barely smoked anything and I already felt high
- We had been given points for good behavior or good grades, and to my surprise they could buy quite a bit. There was a big screen tv for 164 points, we were on a trolly or boat of some sort, gliding through the prize room. I got off in the small area with computers. I saw a black machine that looked like it was a combo console of 3-5 rare computer and video game systems. I considered using my points for it, but it was so large, and it didn't have a price on it.
Music: Verdena - Elefante

Wednesday Morning, 1.2.08: I got off the bus at night, my mom took me to a parking garage and told me she wanted me to see a museum exhibition before it ended. We went inside and I saw Christian, he told me he had won a scholarship, or that he was a finalist, but he didn't really need the $1000 since his godmother paid for college. He said he might give it up to someone who needed it more, and it warmed my heart a little
- I was in my dad's van, Farida was in the passenger's side. He dropped me off at the townhouse where my mom was waiting for me. She said something about Farida, maybe that she didn't want to see her with me
Music: Rod Stewart - You're in my Heart

Tuesday Morning, 1.1.08: Michael was in my bedroom in the townhouse, someone else was with us, probably Jessica. She told me that Alex Glick was going to the Mary J. Blige concert in Monterrey. I said that was a great idea, and we should go, too.
/ The Mary J. Blige tickets were only $10, we found our seats and got up to get something to drink before the concert started. Jennelle said she had to give some Christmas gifts out so I accompanied her. There was a black girl she seemingly didn't know too well, more of an acquaintance, and she gave her a plastic case with an agenda inside, and a pocket for an umbrella. I was more excited about it than her friend was, who seemed completely disinterested. I wondered where my present was. I walked out with Kristan, who was telling me that she lost her job. I was shocked, but I guess they had caught on to how much she did personal stuff on company time. She said that she figured it out because her Christmas bonus was much larger than it should have been, and it was because it included the severance. We stopped at a closet where she took something out. I wondered how much longer I would be keeping my job. And just then Gil had a discussion with me in the food court. I tried to argue saying that they would need someone in my position, but I guess they had seen that they could manage without me the three and a half weeks I was out of town. Gil also told me that "the bird" had died the day before I got back. I wasn't surprised.

Monday Morning, 12.31.07: Ms. Price had asked us to go to River Oaks to get some information about a Mrs. John that she had worked with in a study of retarded children, or something of the sort. We thought it would be easy to get in, but when we got to the front office they made us sign in and wouldn't give us much information about Mrs. John. They gave us some paper with general information about her, but when we asked if we could see her or at least get her telephone number they asked us all sorts of questions about the study, which we knew little about. We went back to Ms. Price with the paper they gave us, apologizing for not being able to get her what she wanted
- A mother and her 3 daughters were on their way to the Walter Branch library when they noticed that a party was going on in a house across the street. The teenage daughter wanted to go, and then the other 2 did, but they mother didn't want to let them. After getting in the library she decided to let them go, but would secretly follow them to keep an eye on things. The party was lame, a bunch of bikers listening to old rock music. She took a few photos and posted it with her entry on poor_skills. There were 4 comments, I had the page open when she walked back into the library. I was hoping she would see.
- Fauzeya started telling me a story of how Yousef (or a friend of his) lost his disposable contact and went to community college for 2 semesters to get his degree instead of looking for the contact. I was there, I had studied abroad in Monterrey for a semester and I had a group of rich friends. They were telling me that a female American spy was paid a lot of money to go to a secret island for work. The hotel there was like the "Monterrey Inn" which apparently was on a cliff on the beach where the distance to the water was just perfect. We went down a busy pedestrian street with another foreign friend to get to her hostel. I joked with the blonde girl that she was going to the "hostel mamita... y papito"
- Claudio's mom told me that she wanted to make a bet, with money. We were standing outside of Claudio's room. Then she started to say that she was about to go grocery shopping
Music: Modern English - Melt With You

Sunday Morning, 12.30.07: I was in a Tom and Jerry game, as Jerry, and I could stick to the walls my putting myself into a bubble.

Saturday Afternoon, 12.29.07: I went to the parking garage of what looked like the condominiums Kris lived in. There was some Monopoly money around, so I used $2000 of it to tip a guy waiting in his car after he explained how things worked. Paris Hilton was the attendant, she was flirting with some high school athlete when I went to her and told her I was new there and didn't have a card to get in. She told me that was fine and to wait in line behind the cars. It looked like drive-thru bank lines. The high school boy explained that he was going to college and might get bigger, and two guys were fighting over her outside of a diner.

Saturday Morning, 12.29.07: Edwin was let out of prison for a while and he came to visit me in my neighborhood. I was happy to see him, but I felt guilty for not sending him the letter I had written him. I started to explain the situation to him. He mentioned the parole letter. I asked what they did for Halloween and Christmas in prison. I wondered if his mom had come to visit him for Christmas Day. We started walking in the direction of Walgreens when he told me that he forgot his acne medicine, and started running.

Friday Afternoon, 12.28.07: Elizabeth's dad had died and I was in the will, inheriting 25%, the same amount as Elizabeth. It struck me as odd because I hadn't seen him since elementary school and we barely knew each other. I asked if her brother was inheriting, and if the stepmother and sister were. They were. But I was under the impression that the money was meant for someone else, perhaps they thought I was his illegitimate daughter. I looked hispanic enough. For a moment Britney Spears came out and started talking in poor Spanish. Two punks came to me and asked if I had been in some horror movie from the 80s, there was a girl that said 1 line but it had a sort of cult following. Since the girl in the will was in the movie, I said that it had been me. They flipped, but all the while I was afraid they would discover my true identity. We went up escalators, I told my friend to play along.

Friday Morning, 12.28.07: Val and I waiting for bus, she decided not to get on because of the people, I walked around and carried some heavy textbooks across the street by the freeway. I went to work for a while, we were in a big office building on a top floor, Bobby was charging for some 2x2s since he didn't know what was what. He said he had called my cell phone with questions but couldn't reach me. I went to class where I normally sat in front of Kristan, but I didn't feel like sitting there anymore so I took Easton Riley's seat which was in front of mine. Kristan asked about it and I told her the teacher was about to move me anyway.
Music: 311 - Beautiful Disaster

Sunday Morning, 12.23.07: The three people I met at the Spice Girls concert in LA paid me a surprise visit at my apartment in Houston. I was just about to leave for Spain, I had my bags packed. One of them said I should come with him to the concert in New York. As they were leaving I asked two of them for their email addresses. They hesitated, it seemed as though they didn't want to give them to me. The girl's was something like "fakeskin" and the guy wrote his kind of sloppily. I ran back to my apartment (I had followed them to the car), thinking I had locked myself out, but I hadn't.

Wednesday Morning, 12.19.07: This time the ghost was in the bathroom, I felt it in the bathtub as I was sitting on the toilet. The room was dark

Tuesday Morning, 12.18.07: I went with my friend to the thrift store by our high school to look for costume for the dance. It was night time and we had just gotten off of the 2 by Walgreens. I wasn't very impressed with the selection, but after some digging I found a race car driver costume that was a possibility. Sara Delclos walked by me and said the outfit was worn by some girl I had never even heard of. Maybe if I had ever gone to dances I would know that. "Who?" "She wasn't that popular." I couldn't tell if she was being sarcastic, but regardless I scratched that idea.

Monday Morning, 12.17.07: I was doing the math to see which flight I could get on. I arrived early, my flight wasn't leaving until 4pm, but the 10:28am flight seemed packed. However, there was a 10:30am flight that I might be able to make. How stupid was that? To have 2 minutes separating nearly identical flights. I told this to the friend I talked to on the payphone. I was in the Greenspoint area, I could try to kill some time around there.
Music: Placebo - Post Blue

Sunday Morning, 12.16.07: I followed Kristan to the hotel room, knowing that it would bother her. We bickered, apparently she was rooming with Jessica even though there were 3 beds in the room. I eventually left and tried to find Michael. We were in a 3-story high cabin hotel.
- They allowed me to sell the aquarium I had been taking care of. It had dark purple crystals inside, I figured those alone would be worth $150, so I totaled my estimate at $600. My dad was trying to convince me to sell for $12.500, which was absurd. It was going to be sad to say goodbye to what I had called home for those months. My room was quaint and dark, but it was comfortable.

Saturday Night, 12.15.07: There was a ghost in the kitchen, when I went to it I felt its presence. It then turned into a wasp or a bee, I went running toward the bathroom

Thursday Morning, 12.13.07: Kristan and I went to visit ROE again, we had been back there so many times that the teachers were probably tired of seeing us. We talked to Ms. Nelson briefly.
/ We were on a terrace and opened the glass door to get inside. The style of the building was very 60s. We were in Madrid. An old man in a wheelchair came up to us, it had been Kristan's host father or someone related to her host family, and she had loaned him 30 euros and wanted it back. He pulled out a penny and some euro loose change "No, 30 EUROS" I told him.

Sunday Morning, 12.9.07: After walking through the dusty mall parking lot I tried running after the 2 and luckily caught up to it, I was going to Washington Mutual. I had just come from Kirston's newly inherited house, it was 1 story but very large, and was scattered with tables with Singer machines built into them. I walked into his dimly lit and wide open office, he was still in the process of remodeling.

Friday Morning, 12.7.07: Val's family spoke to me in Italian and I answered back in broken Italian, fending quite well for myself, surprisingly. When we were in the car (driving at night or early morning) they said if I had woken up earlier I could have done "hula hooping" with them. Alex said they had gone ice skating, but the skates were more like roller skates which meant they only fell twice.
Music: Verdena - Phantastica

Sunday Morning, 12.2.07: Claudio's mom called me from his phone, "Hola bichito", she said she would call me back but didn't. I could see Claudio was about to get into the shower.

Saturday Morning, 12.1.07: Backpacking in Morocco with Kristan, meeting cool people in free hostel in the desert. I walked back and brought some fries for everyone, but then noticed that we were next to a McDonalds anyway
Music: Big Country - In a Big Country

Friday Morning, 11.30.07: The Mexican church I was in was serving Pan Riko bread.

Thursday Morning, 11.29.07: Claudio was with me, we sat at a table and Gil told us that flipping a coin did not have a 50/50 chance when used over a newspaper. He proceeded to explain why and I didn't pay much attention, but then he mentioned that when he had told Mr. Mazzoni this years ago he was so happy because other mathematicians had never let him in on the secret. He said Mazzoni was in tears, and I laughed at the thought.

Wednesday Morning, 11.28.07: We had stopped by the Chinese buffet on Fondren before I left for the Spice Girls concert. I was sitting there as it was starting and realized I was alone, Val hadn't shown up. Did her sister's friend still want Kristan's ticket? I moved from my seat and gave her a call, the audience was cheering and the Spice Girls were thanking their fans in every city, listing the cities.
Music: Chara - Crazy For You

Tuesday Morning, 11.27.07: Flying, landed at FIU parking garage because it was about to rain, I ran into Kirston and thought I saw Claudio waiting for me but it was a pale Mexican. Then Claudio came and I introduced him. Kirston offered us a ride home and Claudio was making out with me in front of him in the car. I had my purple bra from 4 years ago and a noticeable tan line.

Monday Morning, 11.26.07: I saw in Dalia's facebook profile that she was bald so I assumed it was cancer. She had a cute older Arab boyfriend and looked happy, despite the baldness. I saw her at the airport checking in the attache she had found with drug money inside, thinking "What is she doing?!"
- Of course they were on to us after that. They gave my mom a notice that she was to meet them at the apartments behind Ranoush Cafe. I tried to convince her not to go but she insisted. When we got there we saw that the door was open and my mom asked a Mexican girl if they always kept it open. She went inside and I felt uneasy
Music: Verdena - Phantastica

Sunday Morning, 11.25.07: Heidi laying eggs that Mei and Gil wanted to eat, I explained they were her period.
- Going back in time to high school, sitting with Najla and Jessica and Kristan in a dim cabin, I asked a question and realized that doing so would probably mess up the time continuem

Friday Morning, 11.23.07: Running like a black panther through the park, going to Mexico. I enjoyed the colorful houses that surrounded me.
Music: Matchbox 20 - Mad Season

Thursday Morning, 11.22.07: With Val in thrift store, wanted to buy plaid pants that fit right, told her to hold on to my jeans with holes (then turned into old navy ones) and she thought I wanted her to exchange them. I looked in the mirror, I had my brown boots on, and as I walked out I realized they were flooded.
Music: Third Eye Blind - My Time in Exile

Wednesday Morning, 11.21.07: Bird changing from turqoise parakeet to cockatiel to multicolored. Gil didn't pay attention, I had Bobby take a photo as I posed like a wrestler but then somewhat normal. Ran away from guy through Ren Fest (or something like it), in a grassy field
Music: Mark Ronson ft. Lily Allen - Oh my God

Tuesday Morning, 11.20.07: Moms wanting me to mother their sons, being in haunted auditorium with a dream friend, walking up and down the stairs

Thursday Morning, 11.15.07: I was passing by the Korean convenience store (perhaps to buy my lotto ticket) when I looked across the street and saw a few flamingos in the parking lot of the strip mall. Astonished, I crossed the street immediately. One of them was standing by the dumpster and spoke to me. "Crutiiina" in a raspy voice. At first I thought he was saying "Frutina", but later understood that he wanted shrimp. I thought about how flamingos get their pink color from the pink food they eat. "Crutiiina", I had no idea flamingos were so big. I told him I would go into the open mall to my side and try to get some. I consider asking restaurants if I could get some for free, or waiting until they were about to close, but the flamingo was hungry now so that wouldn't work. He tried to follow me in but I told him to wait there while I ran in. He still tried to follow, "wait!" and I grabbed him which he didn't enjoy. "Man, you gonna leave me here?" suddenly he talked like a black man.

Wednesday Morning, 11.14.07: I told my mom we went out of our way going back to Oregon when we had been going that way a few days ago. We were on a bus and had just made a pitstop.
/I got off the bus with Kristan and her mom, in Taipei. Kristan's hair was down and looked very elegant, she crossed the busy street with confidence and the two of us followed. We stopped at a thrift store called "Sester, Sister" only to find that it was more of a museum, or at least the area by the entrance was. We browsed through old documents until we found out chilling details about the 18th century murder.
- Mel B was being carried away by the police who arrested her for something stupid. For a while I looked out of the window to try to understand what was happening. Some of the other girls and friends began to kick a soccer ball around to distract the cops, and it seemed to be working. I finally stepped out of the English mansion and ran after Mel, telling her not to go to jail. "Have you ever been to jail?" She said yes and I told her I had, too. I was giving her advice, telling her not to call cell phones and whatnot. Then I kicked the soccer ball around some. There was a nearby lake (or large puddle) with strange prehistoric looking reptiles in it. The ball splashed on the side for a moment and it seemed to bother one of the reptiles that hobbled out. Mel C and Geri were there, Mel C grabbed me for a moment and I noticed her hands were very soft. I felt awkward but continued to play.

Tuesday Morning, 11.13.07: Chandra had made reservations at a Chinese place for the Rogers group (plus Rose and Ann). I told Rose "well it's your birthday so you should choose what you want to eat", but then realized it was also Ann and Chandra's birthday, "Or.. you should all choose". I looked at the reservation a few hours earlier and saw that we would be put in the bathroom, but I didn't say anything for some reason. Everyone was surprised when the host took us into the stalls, and I kept my mouth shut. A few Asian business men were dining in the stalls. There was a table to the side though, so we decided to eat at it.
- I was at the Ozzy Osbourne concert in Italy with Val. Somehow we had gotten backstage, the acoustics were great, as Ozzy noted. I went up to him later and asked him where we were, because I had been somewhere in Tuscany with great acoustics. Val told me that she knew how to say she was on her period in Italian. I listed to the recording and noticed it was actually in French "Je suis dans ma p�riode". Funny that "period" was nearly the same in French, I wouldn't have thought that.
Music: Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train

Monday Morning, 11.12.07: I had just finished telling Caryn Robey about these pills that made you skip a period. We got lots of them from a Chinese distributor, they looked like those energy pills I bought in New Orleans, and they came in lime green pouches with elephants drawn on them. Others were orange with tigers drawn on them.
/ I left the house and got on the bus with Claudio, telling him about the pills. He seemed uninterested and depressed. We missed our 82 Sharpstown stop so I got off at Briarhurst. He didn't want to come with me so he stayed on the bus. Later, I was checking email in a glass room and he came in with his cousin Pablo. They looked things up on ebay and I was afraid he would see what I had been looking at.

Sunday Morning, 11.11.07: Claudio and I were walking hand in hand through the mall when he mentioned that he was going to marry Al Gore. At first I thought it was a joke, but he said that he had proposed to him so he accepted. I asked him if it meant that we weren't going to get married, and he said it did, very nonchalantly. I started to realize that maybe he wasn't joking, and I looked it up online later and found about 5 websites that confirmed the marriage. The wedding would be in Spain, and Edgar and Pablo commented on two of the articles.
- I remembered how Bellaire was set up even though I hadn't been there in a few years. They had done so many additions, but I managed to find the old orchestra corridor. Ms. Brown was teaching a few children how to play guitar, although they had to practice on keyboards held horizontally because the guitars hadn't come in yet. She put on a video of a gypsy girl playing and had them try to mimic her finger movements. I tried and did fairly decently. "This will show which of you have had practice on stringed instruments." After class I told her I never expected her to be teaching a class like that.

Saturday Morning, 11.10.07: Claudio had gotten in and we were about to fuck in my room, which was placed more like my father's room but had my bed and sheets in it. I realized that I still hadn't changed my sheets, but it was too late now. Mei came in and tried to give me some size 6 pink tennis shoes but saw they were too small. She commented on how big Claudio's shoes were, since they were in the closet she was standing in as well.
- I thought about my yellow purse as we walked into the bookshop of the museum, losing the crowd we came with. It was badly lit and wooden, and there were lots of old Nintendo Power magazines so the both of us were in heaven. Behind those there were old Japanese video game magazines, a 10-year old boy said something in Japanese that I assumed was the name of the magazine; he must have been able to read Japanese letters. I felt around and found a cell phone like mine with the battery taken out, someone had left it between all those magazines. Claudio disappeared and I noticed my phone was missing, but found it among magazines on the other side, just as I had found the other one. I had panicked when I noticed it was missing but I had a hunch it would be around there. I went back on the yellow school bus and everyone was waiting for me so we could leave. Claudio was Doug for a moment. I realized that I had left my yellow purse somewhere and dragged Claudio with me to look for it. We went running, my plan was to use my cell phone to call my cell phone and hear the purse ringing. I flipped through my phone's address book until I found "Aisha Movil" and dialed. The Japanese concierge had it for me, "Domo arigato... domo arigato gozaimas" In my head I noticed the connection between "obrigado" and "arigato", although it is likely a coincidence as many say.

Friday Morning, 11.9.07: Claudio and I were about to fuck in my living room but we didn't have a condom. "Well it wouldn't be the first time..." I was in my ovulation days though, so I was slightly worried. I had a sofa in my living room
Music: Alizee - Lui ou Toi (industrial remix)

Wednesday Morning, 11.7.07: I learned about the touring Spice Girls exhibit at the Museum of Natural Science and convinced Sandra to go with me on a free day. They had a lot of sports trophies on display, and plaques on the wall with a timeline of Spice events.
/ The black girls convinced me to dance around the house with them. There was a purpose behind it but I didn't ask. I was holding an acoustic guitar and was dressed in a flowy magenta dress like the one I had in first grade. I danced as goofy as possible, and they of course laughed. All of us had to keep dancing our way through the house.

Thursday Morning, 11.1.07: Mikey was driving me to eat for my birthday, we were going to park by the townhomes but I saw my dad walking around there so i told him to drive away at the last minute. I felt like going to Lubys, so I said to keep on Fondren until Westpark, but it was actually until Westheimer. He pulled into a Becks Prime and someone brought me a hamburger but it tasted awful and the pattie was big and pink inside. It had been so long since I had eaten meat, and I didn't miss it at all. Mike started eating so I figured we probably wouldn't be going to Luby's afterall.

Tuesday Morning, 10.30.07: Claudio and I were going to rent a car, we were standing in the carport of the townhomes and I realized I didn't know how to drive.
/I was trying to stick a mattress in a wooden frame, but was having trouble. I thought about my glasses and Marylin Manson, and I looked at them and saw that the frame didn't go down to the bottom of the lenses. It suddenly made sense.

Monday Morning, 10.29.07: My teacher had asked about a film, "Do you mean 'Avalon'?" That wasn't what he was looking for. There was a 10 year high school reunion from the class of '92 or '93. I looked up the skinny blonde girl with green shirt about her class on facebook. I was standing by the classroom window in my black bra (that I left in Miami) putting on a shirt when Gil started walking over, so I hovered off to the side as I finished putting it on. The floors were a laminated blonde wood, just as I had remembered them.

Sunday Morning, 10.28.07: Late afternoon, dark out, going home from work on the rail. We were talking about the Ren Fest, Najla was there. She said there was a daybed on freecycle and offered to pick it up for me. I figured this meant she wanted to crash at my place for a while. I wasn't very happy about it, and told her if she was going to do that to come by after 6 or 7 when I got off of work.
/ Claudio and I ran to the bus stop from the Hillcroft Transit Center. It was dark outside and we had to run through fields. I sang a song to myself about the situation (after we had parted briefly), but was surprised to see a pig and a donkey on stage, instead of the other 2 animals I was expecting. I would have to change my song a little. After we got there I realized we could have just taken the rail there, 1 more stop.

Saturday Morning, 10.27.07: With the Design Remix team painting the roof red. First we used little red foam tiles, but I almost accidentally put an olive green one down. That would have been horrible. Then we started using red paint; I was scared of falling off, especially since I didn't have health insurance. I wondered if HGTV would pay for my medical bills.
/ Mima's death, we opened her bedroom and I commented on how quaint and peaceful it was. There were two twin beds, one was against her sliding closet doors, and it was very Mexican and colorful with knitted bedspreads. The two of us went through things, I found quite a bit of money, even a $100 bill. I moved her dresser forward to see if anything had fallen behind it. Going through her things made me sentimental and I started to tear up. But wait, she had died several years ago, hadn't she?

Friday Morning, 10.26.07: I was in my townhouse looking out of the dining room window.
- I thought I could win over the audience on the competitive cooking show if I made something sweet with oatmeal. I put my ingredients in the blender, generously sprinkled cinnamon on top, and got it whirring loudly. The audience was cheering me on, I thought about Ms. Tartt. But the mixture was expanding in the blender, it was going to flow out. The audience seemed concerned, and I didn't know what to do.

Thursday Morning, 10.25.07: The door to the upstairs bathroom in the townhouse was open. When Mimi came in and saw me standing in my bedroom she got scared, as if she had seen a ghost, and jumped up a few times before running out.
- Adrienne and I were in Brazil (perhaps Rio) and I had asked why anklets had just long strings attached to them. I decided to ask a woman selling some. I got one (they all had small anti-theft devices attached) and said "olha.." but found that my Portuguese was deteriorating and I couldn't think of the words. Adrienne decided to intervene, but her Portuguese was much worse than mine, "Mulher..."

Tuesday Morning, 10.23.07: I was in Miami by Brickell and the sky was very dark. I could tell a hurricane was brewing. As we drove by the water I saw strange birds (I think maybe a Great Blue Heron was one of them) struggling to fly against the wind.
- I was in the 25 going down Fondren by Westpark and I noticed the sky was dark again. I saw a flower inside a flower inside a flower growing in the abadoned field, it was long and falling over.

Monday Morning, 10.22.07: Mandy Lynn's dad had died of cancer and she found out about it after she had been ousted from America's Most Smartest Model. I told her to ask the producers to let her stay in the house for a while so she could be around people but she told me it would be better if she went home. I hugged her and made her promise me she would surround herself with her friends and family. We were all sad to see her go.
- I was selling drugs with my mom and some dream friend or family member. We weren't actually in the act of selling them, but we had them with us in the car. It was 8:53 when we stopped at the mall, and they insisted on going in. By the time we got there it was 9:14. A weird man was lurking around, and I knew he would be trouble and didn't want to get out of the car. The next thing I knew a drug dog was shoving his snout up my mom's butt, and we all had to get against the car.
- I led Claudio and German into the garage, I thought we could be alone but Jakeline was there cutting up small apples she said were called "Ludo" (or "Luso") I shared some of mine with German and Claudio ate some, it was delicious.
- I spoke to German from the airport. As I looked at the postcards he told me I didn't need to pick him up, but I kept offering to help and said I knew the public transit system really well if he wanted me to tell him about it.

Thursday Morning, 10.18.07: Kim Tuthill was a big executive in NYC, but had a weakness for ecstacy pills. I saw her walk into a fancy lotion store and pop a few pills into her mouth, with her business suit on.
/ I walked though the lake until I got to my reunion classroom. I could see an overhead view of the park, it was very beautiful. Betty Kim from Mission: Organization was my teacher, she put some math problems on the chalkboard, square roots inside of square roots. I said it had been a long time since I had done that, but if you multiplied the fractional exponents you should get the answer. I second guessed myself at the end, but she hugged me and said she was so proud of me, which made me feel pretty fantastic.

Friday Morning, 10.12.07: Visiting Val in LA, coke in supermarket shopping carts at night (Sarah Silverman and Laura). We went to her house and her mom offered me snack foods twice, the 2nd time it was a weird new flavor of Pringles. Val's little (dream) brother, who was around 10, loved them. After I thanked her again and declined she made hamburgers for dinner and I heard her say she didn't want to offer me anything because I never ate her food. I could see them eating, I was with Val and my mom in the adjacent room, and I felt incredibly awkward.
/ Val drove us around, when we were on the highway I thought what the hell was I doing there, it was still October and the Spice Girls concert wasn't until December. I looked out the window and saw a banner for the Mamas and the Papas concert.
/ My mom wanted to go to casinos and lost everything, but got a piece of gum for a quarter at the end.
- I saw Juan in a supermarket and I walked through it with him until we decided to sit down and watch the ice skaters below.
- We drove by Papi's neighborhood, Tia Susie was in passenger seat. That's still open? The Grandys was closed down, but I walked by and it was secretly open. There was a long line and as we got closer to the front I realized we didn't get a number. I went back and was 10. My mom was eating the usual Grandys plate and I told Val if she was going to get a pizza she needed to get some sides because they were the best. My choices were limited, I thought about mozzerella sticks, but I was excited about the sides

Thursday Morning, 10.11.07: A friend of mine went into the attic with all the computers and was expecting me to join him in his plot. I went along with everything, to fool him, and crumpled the aluminium sword when he ran at me, then closed the attic door on him. No one would hear his cries.
- I meant to transfer on the 82 that Michael had just got on, it would have been a slight inconvenience but it was on the way. But the bus circled around and I saw it pass. Emma asked me to finish my story, and I laughed as I thought of it. I started telling her petty details that had no importance to the story, and then realized what I was doing and tried to remember the important part so I could finish it up.

Thursday Morning, 10.4.07: I brought ammonia along with me to Papi's house. When Jose saw me with it he got pretty excited. I offered to clean the bathroom and asked him if he already had any, to which he said no.
- Michael and I scanned my neighborhood library for good CDs. She found the Chemical Brothers one I had checked out a year or two ago.
Music: Chemical Brothers - The Boxer

Wednesday Morning, 10.3.07: The sun was setting as we drove through amber fields. After it got dark, Kristan and Jessica decided to go the mall instead of going straight to the airport. Our flight was at 7:20 but the two of them insisted on stopping at the mall even though our flight was about to leave soon. I tried talking them out of the idea but they were intent on going, so I followed. Kristan even threatened me saying that if I went alone I wouldn't have a ride home from the airport. I got a cookie in the food court, and when we got to the airport I was put in a like VIP line so I got my ticket first. The automated ticket screen asked me all these questions about Hannah Montana before it would give me my ticket, so I had to watch a short clip from the show and answer questions about it. Luckily I had caught an episode a few days earlier so I wasn't completely confused. As we were walking to the gate I pushed an airport car that had 2 kids in it and set it spinning out of control for a while. One of the boys broke his arm and started crying, I could see how bent it was. I felt bad, I didn't mean to cause that much harm, I was just annoyed by them for some reason.
Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Fortune's Faded

Tuesday Morning, 10.2.07: I went with Val to the laundromat in her school, she got some sort of VIP treatment even though everyone was waiting in line. Her friend gave her the key for one of the big washers and we threw all our clothes in there. Thiago called and his friend Kaka wanted to prepare a dinner for me when I got in. "Well, I don't eat meat..." "So should I make chicken?" "Umm... I guess"

Monday Morning, 10.1.07: Had been waiting for the bus, it passed me by and I ran after it, seeing Mexican women with children by the library.
- In a hot air balloon, we were going too high and the evil woman told us to throw some people down, then let some of the air go and throw down the typewriter. Of course this weight lessening made the balloon go up even higher. We would probably never see those people again.
/ I walked through a huge comic book store and saw several toys and t-shirts mounted on the wall. There was an "adult" section I tried to avoid but as my mom came I noticed Lacey from Rock of Love had a sex video out! It was on display near the center of the store; I was amused.
- TV cartoons (or real people? The tall skinny boy from Superbad) getting anally raped by another boy, perhaps Cartman. At first I thought it was a joke, but zooming in I could see what looked like a stag penis. The guy said it didn't really hurt that much.
/ I came home (to the townhouse) and looked through my mail. I had several checks, the first one was from Walgreens for my part-time work with them, it was nearly $800! I was excited and thought the others were for me, as they looked the same, but on closer inspection I saw that they were legal ad payments for one of the newspapers I work for.
- Cyndi Lauper on Amazon.com, 3rd to last album was "She's So Unusual"
- "Avevo (dream word meaning that) cinque anni..."
Music: Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time

Saturday Morning, 9.29.07: I went to the house I had left a few books in, the 2 children were there alone. Most of the house was hot and stuffy, except for the living room they were playing in. I stopped by one of their bedrooms briefly; they seemed to be bothered and weirded out that I was there. All I wanted was my Tango book, but I couldn't find it among all their children's books. I was annoyed because I went through a lot of trouble organizing my few books and they were scattered and most of them were on the bottom of a huge stack of books in their backroom. The stack of books was on a flimsy silver colored shelf. I left and went to an abandoned house I had told my ex-roommate Michael about. It was in a pretty vibrant neighborhood (in Portugal?), the house was small and open. It had dirt and weeds on the floor, and was in a delapidated condition, but as I was taking photos I noticed that on the right wall there was a twin-sized bed and a shelf on the wall with children's knick-knacks. I took the bed upstairs into my townhouse bedroom, and then I realized it had several ants on it. I took off all the sheets (my old faded pink ones and my newer blue ones that I was about to put on) to throw into the wash. I was worried that the ants would invade, I should have never taken it into that room.
Music: Sneaker Pimps - Splinter

Friday Morning, 9.28.07: With Claudio's dad and Jakeline and Miguel and Claudio at a Goodwill. We were about to leave but I found a Super Famicom on a bottom shelf and showed Claudio. It even had a (huge) adapter with a Spanish plug. The price said 99 but we would ask to see how much it really was

Thursday Morning, 9.27.07: Outside, in elementary school, just 2 of us had shown up for class so far, aside from the teacher who was older, blonde, and had a swollen face. Me and a boy. Then we were on the blacktop and 1 of my friends was telling me he was going to Mexico. I asked him where and he listed a bunch of cities, singing them. His friend had some wet yarn hat that I got tired of holding because it was heavy so I gave it back to him and apologized. They seemed insulted, "It's heavy!" I shouted to the one that was going to Mexico, I wasn't sure if the other one knew English
Music: Sneaker Pimps - Ten to Twenty

Wednesday Morning, 9.26.07: Bus/rail in Miami, playing the piano with someone, asked for "D" on bass clef, we were horrible and it was my fault. he said he could play both but I insisted on "helping him out"

Monday Morning, 9.24.07: I kept unintentionally breaking fast, this time I drank right out of my gallon bottle of water.
- I rode my bike through the office (out the back door) to the street. I was on my way to Juarez, but later I met up with my mother and we took her car. I could see the signs to the border, we were getting closer.
Music: Tori Amos - Juarez

Sunday Morning, 9.23.07: The woman who plays Peg Bundy on "Married... With Children" was showing us where she lived. She and her family had moved deep into the forest, away from modern conveniences. At first glance their house was rugged and empty, but she started talking about their "rooms" and I looked in and saw that there was a few pieces of furniture. Peg had a bag of stuff that looked like hippie cereal and rubbed it on her arms. She said the static from it kept her warm throughout the night; I still couldn't fathom living without electricity. Her blonde 10 year old son invited a few friends from school over for the weekend. Some of them didn't want to stay, but most of them saw it as an adventure. "I hate it when they're like 'see you Wednesday'... it's like 'no, I have to go hunting.'" Her son took out his rifle and showed his friends as he explained why he went hunting: a simple division of labor. The "beauty queen" from Kid Nation was there, in the background.
/ German still lived with his parents, but they were rich. His parents were almost encouraging me to sleep with him, or at least that's the impression I got. He swam to a town near Port Angeles (I could see it happening on the map), which took about 30 minutes each way. Claudio came by so I kept him company since I didn't want him to get jealous. I guess more time had elapsed than I had realized, German came downstairs in his swim trunks and decided to go swimming with his younger cousins. It was awkward, juggling the both of them. Days had passed, and German showed up at my apartment by surprise, wearing a weatherproof jacket. He said I was right, and his cousin did crap on his arm. I was about to record the "Clarissa Explains It All" marathon on Nickelodeon, since they would probably never air that show again, but my satellite was messed up and had changed all the channel numbers. The TV was in the living room.

Friday Morning, 9.21.07: I couldn't believe that after all these years, Elisabeth and I were still friends. Of course we had both changed, but it was a good feeling to know that some people would stay with you no matter what.

Wednesday Morning, 9.19.07: I was telling them that I needed to be at the airport by 8:30 at the latest, but my mom and Marty were taking forever. I got dressed in a dark room and passed the auditorium where an orchestra was playing. I became nostalgic, but I enjoyed the performace, however short. We started to put my luggage into the trunk of my mom's car, we were in a crowded pedestrian Chinatown.

Monday Morning, 9.10.07: I went to Val's and started blasting the new Spice Girls song "Down" out of a caravan. The beat was great, the vocals were mostly Mel C and they were strong. Val shouted "I love this song!" I never actually saw her, she was in another room the whole time. Tia Blanca was in the shower so I debated taking a shower in the other bathroom. I asked my mom, but then realized that I didn't have a towel and I didn't want to borrow one since I was on my period. / My mom and my friend walked through the cave. There were little rooms set up in a line, we had to explore each of them. 3 rooms ago we left our stuff there, but it was a dumb idea since more tourists were coming in. We went back and got our stuff, I think my credit cards were still there.

Sunday Morning, 9.9.07: Grey Havaiana platform shoes, the size was too small, I looked at it and it had different numbers for every country. Why would Spain say 80?

Friday Morning, 9.7.07: Jennelle and I found an easy job, but when we walked into the building with aluminum side panels (that looked more like a house) it started to feel sketchy. We walked into a dark room that was eventually opened. Perhaps it was a garage; the light poured in as it opened and we could see a few boxes around us.
Music: ZZ Top - Pearl Necklace

Sunday Morning, 9.2.07: I unintentionally found out that Marty had paid $36,000 for his used Cadillac, and not $10,000 like he had told my mother and me.

Wednesday Morning, 8.29.07: I was with Kristan and her mom, walking down the freeway. There was so much traffic at the exit by my house, so we took the next one instead. There was hardly anyone at that exit. After walking on pavement in the dark, along weeds, we snuck into a crazy lady's house, her big black dog kept sniffing me and jumping on me. When I heard her coming out I ran into her small closet, but she found me in no time. I would be subjected to her tortures for years to come, and no one would know where to find me.
Mr. Clark and I went through a tunnel

Sunday Morning, 8.26.07: Farida accused me of peeing all over my closet. My father of course believed her, then we were in Circuit City and Kristan gave me an old notebook that I said I could use as the new phone log at the office

Monday Morning, 8.20.07: Watching for Alina, she was in a plastic car with another little girl. "I haven't seen her in almost a year." Farida stuck her head out of her bedroom window and saw me
- Hurricane with McKenna and her dad, looking for vegetarian restaurants I missed out on the last time I went. We went to the cylinder building and climbed up the stairs, the hurricane started and [unfinished]

Friday Morning, 8.17.07: I saw Stephen Guild again, he had gotten kind of ugly.
- I was at the rodeo for free, had to go to the bathroom to try on the Missy Elliot t-shirt I bought. I knew I should have gotten a small, the medium was too long. The other stalls were taken so I went to the handicapped one, and these ghetto girls came in to change, too. I didn't want them to see me in my bra, and when 1 girl (after more came in) started staring I stared back at her. It pissed me off. So now I had to return the shirt and get a small, but it was already 10:30 and everything was closed. They were about to start with the fireworks and all. Najla was rushing me, so when we sat down to eat, I felt like something was missing. It was my brown mini backpack. I had left it at another table with my green backpack, luckily my laptop was still there but the mini backpack was gone, with my wallet and everything. I was about to cry. And the old man sitting there didn't do anything when they took off with it! He told me about it. I talked to Michael in Spanish, calling the old man the "maestro", and later "profesor".

Thursday Morning, 8.16.07: Friday at Mike's, finding a blank passport in Moroccan supermarket and tucking it in my pocket
- New Kogepan book, skinnier

Tuesday Morning, 8.14.07: Kris driving the bus, he stole my heavy black backpack. I asked him for it and he was driving crazy, I nearly fell down. Had I missed my stop? Michael and Jessica had already gotten off the bus

Monday Morning, 8.13.07: I was in Japan with a black girl's white boyfriend. I had slept with him and she was crying about it. We all lay in that small bed and I felt pretty horrible and left. I passed by the bathrooms downstairs, the structure was all wooden and soothing; very Japanese and beautiful. Gil passed by in taxi and gave me a ride, we stopped at an office building made out of turquoise glass. It was strange to find something like that in that country area.
/ I left the bathroom by Ms. Nelson's (old) room at ROE, and we were we walking out of a mall.

Thursday Morning, 8.9.07: Claudio and I walked around in the early morning, the air was still hazy. We found ourselves at a waterpark, by a tall yellow tube slide, and immediately decided to change into our swimsuits and take advantage of the park's lack of security. I was excited at the thought of going down a waterslide once again, but more excited that we had discovered a free way in. When we finished changing Ed Warner caught us. He acted as though he didn't work there, but his gypsy voice was intimidating. I saw the water splash beneath my feet and sadly realized I wouldn't be going down the slide, afterall.
Music: Pitty - Emboscada

Monday Morning, 8.6.07: Getting into Claudio's room from the restaurant owned by the Gordas. We had to pull an attic ladder from the ceiling and climb over a table where two women were eating. I almost fell but they pushed me up as I grabbed onto the comforter and shelf. Claudio got up with ease, as the women had moved their table out of our way
- Fishing in pond, instructor wanted us to rub lotion on our arms and rub them together with someone else to create the worms of various colors we would be using for bait. He listed them all from memory, I thought he must be pretty smart. I caught a fish but he was spinning me all around, even though I had one foot in the water and the other one halfway out like the instructor told us. I went faster and faster until I asked him about it and he told me I needed to put a year on my Flickr photo. I did so and it worked.
- I could tell the new (male) roommate was getting on Dorothy's nerves