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May 11, 2005

Here come old flat top

Less than 24 hours of living alone and already the books are mad at me. Why should she get all the furniture, they're asking themselves. They've taken over the leather couch, no doubt inspired by the example of the foreigners I brought in from the library--mannerless infidels who get drunk and lie around open-faced like they own the place. Now they're starting to spread to the red couch too. Some of them are eating at the dining room table; a few are making friends on the nightstand. One or two pioneers are even examining what the kitchen has to offer.

Seeing the success of the books, the clothes started clamoring to leave the closet. They're getting cozy with the couch books; they're seeing how they like being worn by chairs instead of people; and some of the dirtier ones are having sex in a pile by the door.

Only the shoes are going about things in proper military fashion. They've organized; they're dangerous. They wait until the lights go out and then form lines across doorways to trip me up in the middle of the night when I get out of bed to close the windows or to make sure the rest of the world is still there.

So far I can handle the attacks, but the throw pillows are starting to look hostile and I'm getting a little nervous. Still, everything should be fine. I just have to pray that the CDs keep squabbling and don't unite under one rule; as soon as I hear the first notes of Abbey Road I'll know it's all over for me.

Posted by didofoot at May 11, 2005 02:52 PM

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I'll trade you the attacking shoes and books for my menacing vampire squirrels any day. Shoes may have tongues, but they don't have teeth.

Posted by: Dianna at May 11, 2005 03:38 PM

Here's something to do with your alone time: put a link back to Cementhorizon under your comment form. I'm very busy around here and don't have time for those extra clicks to get back to the main page so I can stare at it and wonder if anyone else has updated or commented yet.

Posted by: Dianna at May 11, 2005 03:40 PM

yeah, i want my sidebar back for other pages than the main page but it keeps coming out wonky. i'll fiddle with it when i have some time though.

Posted by: didofoot at May 11, 2005 04:13 PM

Here you go, Dianna: Cementhorizon.

Wow, that was easy. And I don't even have access to the MT-Archive templates.

Posted by: BD at May 11, 2005 04:46 PM

While I understand that I'm being mocked, I seem to be missing some essential component of the mocking's direction. Perhaps you can post a link to help me with this as well?

Posted by: Dianna at May 11, 2005 06:06 PM

Yeah, definite directionality misunderstanding here. Using my back button on Kristen's pages has been annoying me as well. All she has to do is drop a CH link in the footer.

By the way, Kris, if you'd like to take a break from being attacked by inanimate objects in your apartment and would like the chance to be attacked by real people, live and in color, we're playing poker at my place tonight at 8pm.

Posted by: Danny Dawson at May 11, 2005 07:41 PM

she's mine tonight! miiiiiiiineeee!

Posted by: michele at May 11, 2005 09:44 PM

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