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2001-05-02 || 4:04 p.m. || el cerrito you are neato. || el cerrito: apartment six at the base of haunted hill. fighting over parking spots. will-you-please-cut-my-hair jeff. could-you-please-hem-my-pants-i-will-stand-here-in-my-shorts-and-jump-on-your-bed-while-i-wait jeff. macaroni-and-cheese-every-day-for-dinner jeff. jumping on beds and throwing pop-pop firecrackers at each other and making me laugh so hard i pee my pants. (oh jeff i do miss you very much.) seven o'clock daily debate over friends or jeopardy (i vote jeopardy). waiting for guffman on weekly basis. pinecones hanging from the ceiling with thread. setting the balcony on fire. the balcony: typing outside, lying on my sleeping bag every day to read, chain smoking, stars and dogs barking. spying on neighbors below. jeff's catalog of cds and records. pinback bonnie prince billy elf power the beachwood sparks. woody allen talking on the out-going message. walking trips to the grocery store. the old west gun shop. my green lady's bike. fights over which is the fastest way to the bart station. combing thrift stores for cheesy art. transforming the apartment into a 1970's wood cabin. hip hop boyfriend pissing me off. cryptic calls from jeff's grandma bev. smoking in the bathtub that one time: bliss. poor joanne hiding out from the evil dorms, sleeping bag on jeff's floor, a clean kitchen, and plastic barettes left behind. hot summer full of my sis and fans and dying tree and survivor and gin rummy in our underwear. three cats wrestling in the middle of the night (egon banished to the bathroom. meow meow left in the living room. olive in our bedroom, digging a hole to china through the carpet.). the lady below us with 22 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, all playing nintendo and beating on each other and having sex and yelling about stolen cornbread. naked polaroids of straight-edge boys taped up on my walls as a thank-you-for-letting-us-stay-with-you-present. vegan pizzas at the chuck e. cheese. the great undoing (roommate's mom+three cats+an open window+the need for a vacant room for roommate's sister=me leaving el cerrito)(i am not bitter.). guestbook || notes || archives || profile || photos || d-land |