New & Improved

Today: I added my dissertation counter over there on the right----> it's the witch/moon. The number on the graphic reflects how many pages I have written so far on the dissertation. I plan to update it as frequently as possible. The number currently reflects "rough draft" pages-- and it always tends to get longer as I go. So I'm psyched, since at the beginning of January, I probably had about 20 pages total.

I totally rock the house old school.

Overheard

Man, to woman: I have six kids. (Laughs). And though I've never (gestures) experienced the pain personally (smiles self-deprecatingly) I understand it. I mean, I was there, after all.

Starbucks Girls: A Poem of Sorts

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pretty blond girl with slightly big nose, cute
pink blouse and cigarettes (one after another
didn't your mama tell you chain smoking was bad for you girl?)

mean smile.

her friend, curly-workout muscle arms just out of sight and dipping into the window to
flick the cigarette now and then
Latina with wavy black silky hair

mean smile with dimples.

perched outside where everyone (who is anyone)
walks past and receives your (queenly) judgment/stare. Men are
dismissed ignored
if not your type. Blond girl wonders aloud
"where'd that black man go?" (with concern/alarm obvious on that cute face
as though he were about to leap from his middle-aged coffee drinking
newspaper reading
to do terrible things right now right here).

women who walk by deserve your strictest judgment. IF
they are in your cute little age group and dare try to make themselves pretty as you.

Heaven help the lovely curvy brown girl with long wavy hair
hippy fringed crochet purse and yoga dragon shirt.
She, worthy of your
(mean smiles) scorn.
your lips curl nastily up and I, watching, am amazed that a smile
can look so vicious. snake
like.

You, with perfect pink nails delicate silver earrings trendy bangle bracelet.
Did you know these ornaments do not make
your mocking laughter less ugly?
KAW-- March 2004

**(wrote a song about it. like to hear it here it go......)