Archives for January 2005
Electrified
January 27, 2005 at 1:01 pm | When I was a Bartender, Writing | Comments Off
I had been working at the bar for about a year when my boss finally had the confidence to leave me alone during the day shift.
During times like these I slowly began to develop my personal theory that the bar had taken on a human-like Jekyll and Hyde persona — some nights it was clogged [...]
A disclaimer
January 28, 2005 at 1:59 pm | Family, Writing | 1 Comment
For the last few summers that I was in high school, my mom spent a lot of money to send me to Europe with a company that sponsored educational school-related trips. I went to Greece, Italy, England, France, and all the places in between. I have always kept a journal in which I write extensively, [...]
The miracle of modern medicine
January 29, 2005 at 2:02 pm | Girly | Comments Off
There is no better feeling than the feeling I get when I take off my bra. I spent 45 minutes tonight on my commute home thinking about how good it was going to feel when I finally got home and could change out of my work clothes and take off my brassiere.
For the past couple [...]
My name is MC Speller and I came here to spell
January 30, 2005 at 1:03 pm | The Man | Comments Off
For years, C worked offshore. He went to college on a ship, he’s worked for shipping companies, and he even grew up in the waters on a sailboat his parents navigated from Florida to the Bahamas.
In all those years, in all that dangerous work, my boyfriend, Mr. Safety, never sustained a work-related injury.
A few years [...]
A testament to how much my boyfriend truly loves me
January 31, 2005 at 3:06 pm | El Perro, The Man | Comments Off
C has never had a dog before. In my world, that means he never actually had a childhood, but hey, I don’t judge, unless you’re a cat person, and then that makes you a very, very bad person.
So it goes without saying that when my obsessive-compulsive boyfriend allowed not just me to move into his [...]