{"id":209,"date":"2001-04-18T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-18T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=209"},"modified":"2001-04-18T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2001-04-18T10:15:00","slug":"stuff_i_wrote_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/stuff_i_wrote_w\/","title":{"rendered":"stuff i wrote while on the boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i reckon that fifteen pounds is a resonable amount of weight to strive to lose between now and the time i go to seattle. that will bring me down to where i was last august, and i will be able to wear my &#8220;skinny&#8221; clothes again.<br \/>\nskinny clothes!  ha!!  one size does not skinny make.<br \/>\nso, yeah.  portion control. impulse control. alcohol control.  exercise. exercise. exercise.  lovely&#8230; i just *can&#8217;t* wait.<br \/>\nugh.<br \/>\ni best not quit smoking now.  maybe i should start taking the chromium again.  although, i blame it for some rather unladylike side effects.<br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><br \/>\nmy neck is *still* sore, by the way.  that&#8217;s three days (four if you count the lingering twinge today).  hopefully my disgustingly uncomfortable futon will put my skeleton back into it&#8217;s proper order.<br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><br \/>\ni miss jason.  but, i don&#8217;t believe what my magic 8-ball said about his missing me as well.<br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><br \/>\nthat lady smells like cat. or musty steamer trunk. no. pipe cleaners.  she smells like pipe cleaners.<br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><br \/>\nif you have a full version of windows 98 second edition you don&#8217;t need, you can donate it to the &#8220;heather shannon foundation for pc improvement.&#8221;  shipping will be refunded upon request.<br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><br \/>\ntoday, i wish i was invisible.<br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><br \/>\nwhy is it that fat guys can get hot chicks, but fat chicks never get hot guys (unless they&#8217;re camren manheim)?<br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><br \/>\nwhen men lose weight, their dicks get bigger; but, when women lose weight, their breasts get smaller.<br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><br \/>\nwhen i close my eyes and listen to his voice, i design the most beautiful spaces. i wonder if this is my calling, my niche.  i was only waiting for him to unlock the potential.  but, once i hang up the phone, i don&#8217;t know how to make my ideas real.  they exist only in that late night telephone comfort zone.  that frustrates me to no end.<br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><br \/>\nhaiku:<br \/>\n<i>children can&#8217;t grow up<br \/>\nif there is no reason to.<br \/>\nkeep me in first grade.<\/i><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><br \/>\ni think it&#8217;s totally appropriate that she has hot pink hair on easter sunday.<br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><br \/>\ni don&#8217;t like eating dead things any more.<br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><br \/>\nthey are the girls you avoided in high school.  big hair, stretch jeans, $13 zellers pumps.  on dressy days, they would wear their white tube skirts and lace stockings, a matching black bra &#038; panty set visible through the cotton.<br \/>\nthey smoked and wore too much make-up.  their boyfriends were named &#8220;matt&#8221; and &#8220;bud&#8221; and &#8220;spike&#8221;.<br \/>\nwhen they talked, you could hear their rasping voices through doors, a warning to use a different bathroom unless you liked being sniffed at and called &#8220;priss&#8221; as soon as the stall door shut.<br \/>\nmack jackets and high tops, never laced to their high tops.  you knew these girls slept around.  what else were they good for?<br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><br \/>\ni finished reading my book so i&#8217;m filling the pages with brain dump which i will later transcribe into greymatter (brain dump. greymatter. how appropriate.) and post online where i will wait for paige and goddess to write something flattering and supportive; dan to write something to make me laugh out loud, scott to write something short and sarcastic and (the shorter) heather to write something to remind me of why she&#8217;s my friend.<br \/>\nthese are the core of my audience, at least the contingent who talk back via my cgi-powered medium.<br \/>\nwith each comment i will feel fulfilled, my ego tank topped up with enviromentally-friendly, ethanol-blended fuel.<br \/>\nuntil the next time.<br \/>\nthey come closer together now.<br \/>\nsoon, i&#8217;ll never be satisfied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i reckon that fifteen pounds is a resonable amount of weight to strive to lose between now and the time i go to seattle. that will bring me down to where i was last august, and i will be able to wear my &#8220;skinny&#8221; clothes again. skinny clothes! ha!! one size does not skinny make. <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/stuff_i_wrote_w\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}