20 october 1999 wednesday
the weather is finally getting more cloudy and gray.
it's about time. the city is socked in and has been
for a day or so. ill be pleasantly surprised if it
lasts much longer, its been so dreadfully brite and
shiny for so long i've really missed the rain. i hope
it stays a while.
22 october 1999 friday
the clouds are clearing and the weather is heating up
again. but the moon is almost full and very bright.
it melts the remaining veil of clouds like a thin layer
of ice.
my schedule at work is flipflopping again. sometimes
i work days, sometimes nites. i'm trapped in the
dimension of time warped reality.
its much better, this warped dimension.
25 october 1999 monday
the harbor brings many vessels.
the clouds are melting away again. today the
afternoon sun warmed my tepid breakfast as i
refueled before my daily grind.
i dine here frequently before going to work and
i usually always have the same thing because
its invariably the first meal of the day.
here at the food lanai it's usually scrambled
eggs w/cheese and a scoop of rice, sometimes
with a fish on the side freshly plucked from
these same waters.
after all i am lucky enough to be like a
castaway here, surrounded by the pacific, and
i might as well take advantage of its bounties.
today instead of espresso i had melted iced
green tea. the weather was a bit warm after all.
i can't believe it's almost november. where
did october go? it must have gone to work.
that's a scary story, fitting for october i suppose.
wednesday 27 october 1999
i'm at home all day today then i work all nite
tonite. so i've wasted all day plugged into
the internet and not doing what i should be doing
but oh well.
life's too short.
i got involved in the manilyn monroe auction it
was lost in time from there.
the auction was like feeding a the dead to the vultures.
bittersweet.
samhain
31 october 1999 sunday
evil spirits possessed me all day today. i felt
like the little girl in the movie, "the exorcist."
but so far i'm still functioning, no matter what
the side effects. i feel tired and much older.
and then this evening i thought it was all over
and i had endured it well when a sudden uncontrollable
urge came over me at 6pm to go to the movie. so
i dashed away into the halloween night and saw
martin scorcese's "bringing out the dead," again.
it is a very appropriate film for halloween. it's
all about communicating with corpses. and the main
character is a paramedic and i identified with that
since my dad was an ambulance driver when i was a child.
i could relate to the manic behavior and understood
the unspeakable horrors that come with that job.
i know my father scraped too many people off the
pavement and marvel at how well he kept his cool
through it all.
anyhow, i liked the movie and am amused that it got
bad reviews.
so another october is almost complete. i've survived
thirty-nine samhains. i'm impressed.
tonight's spooky gobblin' tale is simply called--sweet.
i tried to keep it short because i know the attention
span of today's reader is rapidly shrinking to distances
shorter and shorter.
this is truly the scariest story i know because it is true.
it is true and i have proof.
so beware when you choke down those goodies you collected.
back to our story, here it is.
sweet
sugar is poison.
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trick or treat.
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