Carin and Steve, apartment building kiss of death.

What is with this? A few months before we left the last place where we lived together, there was a nice big apartment fire in the super’s apartment, and now, yesterday, after we move back in together, what’s that sound I hear? Ding ding ding di-i-i-i-i–i-i-ing! The fire alarm! Luckily this one was just a …

Alexander Graham Bell, You’re a Genius!

That looks like a strange thing to say, now that phones are everywhere and they’re so ordinary. But that must have been what they thought when he first invented the thing. And why would such weirdness be swirling through my head? Because I got a taste of what it must have been like before phones …

We have been redeemed!

I’m awake because I’m scared to sleep. I’m in my miserable apartment next to the freaks, creeps and druggies, and my parents have not yet arrived. They’re coming to help me move out of this frightening place, so I came back to stay in it, expecting that they would arrive just after the vampires came …

Goodbye Old House, I’ll Miss You….A Little

Well, I’ve pissed and moaned about my house a lot lately. But now that it’s almost time to say goodbye to it, it makes me think of all the little things I’ll miss about living there. I’ll miss the guys at the little store down the street, who, at first, could barely understand me, but …

That’s What Happens When You’re Too Small.

Ok, I hate doing whiny posts like this, but I’m frustrated. Today, on my way home, I got to a street that I had to cross. I cross it all the time. So I’m standing there. When it seemed like the light had turned and it was time to go, I was about to step …

Another Reason Not to Live in the UK.

Read this, and tell me one good purpose it serves. Apparently, in the UK, there is such a backlog of court cases that the penalty for several serious offenses ranging from burglary to sex with children has been reduced to sending these assholes home with a caution. This means they have a criminal record, but …