July 2006
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Traffic Light Tales - July 26th, 2006
“When you were born I couldn’t do anything,” Mum says, as the light switches from yellow to red and the car slows to a halt.
I roll my eyes and lay back in my seat. It’s been a long trip, I’m tired and I’m really not in the mood to hear any family stories. Besides, I’ve [...] -
The return (to normality?) - July 18th, 2006
The holidays completely disrupted my sleeping patterns, thus I fell asleep last night at about 1:00am, tossing and turning and thinking “This is stupid, I am never going to get to sleep…” and then losing all conscious thought. Until at six-thirty my pikachu clock began making a racket and the red lights it has for [...]
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Petty crime - July 13th, 2006
Some of you may know that recently my mothers car was broken into, and this set off a mixture of emotions in me. One was an “Oh my god, there’s glass everywhere, what happened?” feeling. Another was an “Oh my god, what if we were in the car and someone smashed a window on us?” [...]