Monday, August 02, 2004
yes yes the kind you scoop up along the way, the kind when you accidentally step on a $5 note on the dancefloor in Milieu and pick it up cos u know it's finders keepers.
yupyup THAT kind of accidental joy. the kind where you pack your bag on a sunday and reluctantly head off for bed before 12midnight dreading the next day of school and suddenly a zooming flash thought BOOMS and pounces on your brain telling you "THERE"S NO SCHOOL TOMORROW"
and i was happily dancing up and down trying to convince myself this thought and memory IS real.. that i DO REMEMBER having no school tml, if not why would my brain have sudden fantasies like that?
then, as i was yelling away hopping madly around the room in a joyful trance i noticed a BIG BLACK BROWNISH FAAAAAAATTT COCKPOACH scampering behind my printer. i shrieked hideously and flung myself up on the sofa screaming for my mom to come save me. she chose not to believe me and continued reading her newspaper when suddenly she turned into a flying frenzy, threw herself down on the carpet and used her precious newspaper to continuously wack the floor with disturbing ferocity. as i watched her gnashing and foaming, eyes dilated with hysteria, i realised she had seen the cockPoach and was frantically trying to kill it before it reached me.
ahhhhhhh....... the sacrificial love of a mother.
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i gratefully acknowledged her heroism with a tribal dance when i gleefully jumped up on my study chair and danced madly around screaming "I TOLD YOU I TOLD YOU I TOLD YOU!!!!!!!"
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