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Mars

About Me

I have an extra layer of skin peeled off and, surprisingly, that makes me a better person. My jokes are funny 52% of the time. I have been told that I know 60% of Spanish. Commercials that involve animals who either can dance or do other human things always get me going. I don’t take crazy risks (like running on concrete or buying fruit on the street.) I am currently wearing the same watch on a daily basis, but who knows how long that will last. I cry when I get my hair cut and that’s not really something I’m proud of. I am a lyme disease survivor. I know that it is wrong to end sentences with prepositions, but sometimes I feel that it is impossible not to. I am the oldest of four, but sometimes feel like I am the oldest person alive. I want to be a good street fighter and a good wife, and if I can’t be good at either of those things, than I want to be really good at car games. I like vacuuming but not sweeping. I know what pining means right down to my core. I go weak at the knees with alarmingly increasing frequency – but only because I had weak knees to begin with.

My Interests

reading books that I don't want to put down, playing cribbage, spicy foods, collage, really old almanacs and atlases, nice globes, great dictionaries, good spelling and proper grammar, fitting names, invented slang, taco stands, trivia, listening to books on tape, canoes, out of the way dollar stores, short baths, watching bad tv (hours of it), pie crusts, baked apples, catchy jingles, unexpected presents, and awkward apologies.

I'd like to meet:

people with library cards and rapier sharp wit

Heroes:

Ronald Regan, Lisa Loeb, Genghis Khan, Alexander Graham Bell, Desi Arnaz, Laura Ingalls Wilder

My Blog

an evening with me

it goes from warm to evenit pans and I am singingquietly enough for him to hear mewe are on a drive like alwaysthe sun is as hot as an aquariaumhe is distant as the whir of a filteri watch and think a...
Posted by Mars on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:07:00 PST

a pillow of warm milk

they forget that I am so youngthat I never had a childhoodthe tinniness of my own voice wheedlesrising and fallingas weak as the glue that keeps dandelion spores groundeda million times I have heard a...
Posted by Mars on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:41:00 PST

sis boom bah

I have been starving. Not for food of course, which I consume by the gallon, but for human connection. I was tired and inept. Stumbling into my pillow - hopeless except when I was hopeful, but even th...
Posted by Mars on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:53:00 PST

If Anne Sexton Spent a Lifetime Watching Reality TV instead of Building Her Vocabulary

so instead of playing up my attributescleverlywith eyeshadow and unicorn dustI am just playing dead.I wake up and waitfor the phone to ringexpecting I don't know whatbut somethingexcitingparalyzingsom...
Posted by Mars on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:33:00 PST

Well, writing a memoir certainly sounded easier than it actually is...

I am becoming an adult. I think. I catch sight of myself in the mirror and think that I am not one. Because I don't really know how to blow dry my hair or how to not talk too much about myself and eve...
Posted by Mars on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 02:03:00 PST

The Things I Don't Know Could Easily Fill a Really Big Closet

I am in awe of everyone who has read everything, seen most things, knows a lot about things that I don't know about, and has done all of those, "milked a goat, been to Peru, fired a gun, been in a hig...
Posted by Mars on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:28:00 PST

Just A Perfect Day

I had the day off! From school, from work, from everything. I had a list of things ten feet long that I needed to do. I did none of them. I woke up and started the day off (before brushing my teeth) w...
Posted by Mars on Sat, 20 May 2006 04:07:00 PST

Aprendemos todo

It has taken me awhile to get used to womanhood. To remember that I can live alone and build myself new again often. To realize that it is just fine to use sentance fragments instead of sentances of t...
Posted by Mars on Thu, 18 May 2006 11:16:00 PST

Nick Cave, The Cave, Cave Dwelling, Just Dwelling

I am listening to Nick Cave. I am almost certain that he wouldn't be a good father. There are a lot of things that he would be good at - but fatherly? I am guessing no. I think that he probably likes ...
Posted by Mars on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:27:00 PST

A list of things I like:

-Watching "Frontier House" re-runs on KCET. Today was a red letter day! There was a marathon on! 6 whole hours of fufillment. I am not sure what I like about it so much... Maybe I feel happy that I a...
Posted by Mars on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:01:00 PST