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8/18/2010
Dearest Gaia,
Today can only be described as.. delicious.
Michael grilled chicken with corn and I made some pasta to go with it! heart
FFXI: Tiamat popped, got some Herald Gaiters and two other gil items. Can't wait til I can create a wishlist.

Goals of This week:
- Figure out how i want to landscape the backyard and the trees in the front yard.
- Put out more applications for a job :/
- suprise Michael somehow 3nodding



Half-Rack at the Rendezvouz
by William Notter

She had a truck, red hair,
and freckled knees and took me all the way
to Memphis after work for barbecue.
We moaned and grunted over plates of ribs
and sweet iced tea, even in a room of strangers,
gnawing the hickory char, the slow
smoked meat peeling off the bones,
and finally the bones. We slurped
grease and dry-rub spice from our fingers,
then finished with blackberry cobbler
that stained her lips and tongue.

All the trees were throwing fireworks
of blossom, the air was thick
with pollen and the brand-new smell of leaves.
We drove back roads in the watermelon dusk,
then tangled around each other, delirious
as honeybees working wisteria.
I could blame it all on cinnamon hair,
or the sap rising, the overflow of spring,
but it was those ribs that started everything.



The pessimist complains about the wind;
The optimist expects it to change;
And the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward, To Risk



 
 
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