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Jan. 10th, 2005 10:02 ammassive sheets of icy show are falling from the roof today. since i am on the top (third) floor, it is particularly noisy. my first thought was that someone should write BEWARE FALLING ICE on the sidewalk below, but perhaps people would be distracted by that, just long enough to be unlucky.
a mysterious belated christmas present from my parents is supposed to be delivered today. and my grandmother is holding a bottle of wine my parents brought back from france for us; it was mislaid in a luggage mishap and so did not make its way to boston. i just hope it is in the closet & not sitting out on the counter. apparently it is illegal to ship alcohol from oregon to massachusetts? --some weird blue law, i suppose. those things together with a large box coming from texas that we were unable to carry on the plane should bring at least another few weeks of christmas. endless christmas!
when i was young i read a story about a girl who got her wish that christmas would happen every day. no one knew why it was happening, but they exhausted themselves and eventually resorted to dead oak branches because there were no more pines; and they ran out of turkeys and goose and had roasted sparrows for christmas dinner instead. people wrapped absurd items, like rocks and old shoes, not knowing why there were no more gifts to buy. this story terrified me at the time. i read several books where children caused awful things to happen by not being specific enough with their wishes. i used to concoct exact phrasings for my wishes. i want all the hair ONLY on my scalp to grow an inch each day; i want a million dollars but everyone will think i have always had it, etc.
a mysterious belated christmas present from my parents is supposed to be delivered today. and my grandmother is holding a bottle of wine my parents brought back from france for us; it was mislaid in a luggage mishap and so did not make its way to boston. i just hope it is in the closet & not sitting out on the counter. apparently it is illegal to ship alcohol from oregon to massachusetts? --some weird blue law, i suppose. those things together with a large box coming from texas that we were unable to carry on the plane should bring at least another few weeks of christmas. endless christmas!
when i was young i read a story about a girl who got her wish that christmas would happen every day. no one knew why it was happening, but they exhausted themselves and eventually resorted to dead oak branches because there were no more pines; and they ran out of turkeys and goose and had roasted sparrows for christmas dinner instead. people wrapped absurd items, like rocks and old shoes, not knowing why there were no more gifts to buy. this story terrified me at the time. i read several books where children caused awful things to happen by not being specific enough with their wishes. i used to concoct exact phrasings for my wishes. i want all the hair ONLY on my scalp to grow an inch each day; i want a million dollars but everyone will think i have always had it, etc.
