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Umm. Yeah. I can stop blogging now.
There was a blog post in today’s NYT Book Review linking me to this site, and I just cut and pasted in my last blog post. YEAH.
Okay. Now back to your regular reading.
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Posted in Princess MeMeMe on Sep 18th, 2009
what? the day cashier quit and you worked late and got all manager-esque on those unsuspecting customers and coworkers your first week at work? then found out tonight that you have to make dessert for 18 at a christening tomorrow at a destination three hours away?
oh, wait, that’s me, not you.
fml.
(no, it’s all good. […]
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Posted in Princess MeMeMe on Aug 25th, 2009
… a chain one, at that, and asks if they’re taking applications. The woman she asks looks like the woman in charge, as she’d hoped, and she hands the ex-lawyer an application, asking her what she’s looking for. She says, straightforwardly, that she’d take stock or cashier, that she’s a burned-out lawyer looking to just […]
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Posted in Princess MeMeMe, bipolar, memory, mom on Aug 19th, 2009
Sort of.
My mother called yesterday evening, and with the caller ID on our new handsets (my mother-in-law’s old phone, helping me screen calls) I saw it was her. I took the call.
This is a big thing for me, caller ID. When I’m especially crazy (as opposed to my baseline functional crazy), I hate the phone. I […]
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Posted in Princess MeMeMe, bipolar, crank on Dec 5th, 2008
1. You’re cranky when your flannel sheets aren’t as plush as they used to be.
2. You’re torn between the spicy beef yaki soba, the hamachi and spicy tuna roll combo, or the tonkatsu for takeout for dinner.
3. You find yourself sneering internally at people’s ugly, cheap-looking shoes while you wait in line at the store. (Oh, […]
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Sometimes you can sort through the trash that’s collected. Read through the pile of magazines unread. Open each unopened envelope, email, Reader subscription, each bill, each “how have you been,” or “here’s how I am” correspondence, each plea for donation, each statement of profit or loss over time.
But sometimes it’s too much. You have […]
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Posted in Princess MeMeMe, bipolar on Oct 19th, 2008
It’s a physical pushing sensation inside your brain. From the very back of your head—the urgency to do something, FAST. Blow through thirty crossword puzzles in an hour. Read the same three books over and over, almost able to read it by memory aloud, you’ve memorized the words by now. Read […]
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I haven’t spoken to my mother since the day before Easter. The story doesn’t need to be rehashed at this point. Suffice it to say, that in the midst of a conversation in which I was trying to convince her that two hospitalizable manic episodes in two years meant she should really take better care […]
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Today’s post, “Too much of a good thing,” is up at RealMental.
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This week’s post, “Distraction,” is up. Nothing insightful, just stream of consciousness whining.
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