Monthly Archives: January, 2010
An open letter i hope he never reads
Dear Nicholas Sparks, I want to like your books. You wrote The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe afterall, which are very good films. I’m currently reading the latter and have also read The Guardian and one whose title I can’t remember. Yes. While it would make me want to wallow in the bath to have …
If you can arrange this for my birthday…
“Shall we watch a film?” I say, lighting a candle next to the TV. “I was going to do some chores,” MindReader says, and before you think my dialogue is off today, this is exactly how he speaks. “Chores!” I say. “Dishwasher, washing machine, ironing…” “Ah.” “I was going to do what you didn’t want …
How to: please me
“Phew,” I say, unwrapping a very woolly scarf from my neck. MindReader squeezes my waist as he moves past me and throws his gloves down on the bottom step our of stairs. “The house is cold,” I say. “I might leave my hat on!” MindReader touches the hall radiator which is really very hot, and …
On MindReader, well, MindReading
“Oh, Christmas is over,” I say as MindReader carries our tree out into the snowy back garden (what do people DO with Christmas trees? Where is the Christmas Tree Bin? Why don’t I know anything?). “It is,” he says, turning and patting my hand. “It’s such a lovely time of year…” I say. “I miss …
Can I have a new year’s resolution not to get flu?
The 27th of December was my two year anniversary of being ill. In those however many hundreds of days, I have not had a single day where I felt perfect, not tired, or achey. I prefer not to think about this most of the time. I don’t know if I would describe myself as fully …
