April 2010
12 posts
Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
I am almost done with Ditmas Park.
Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
How resigned is my mother to the fact that I am not married? As I pack boxes in my apartment, she suggests — unprompted, and with a sigh — “Maybe it is good luck if it rains on your moving day.”
Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
File transfer protocol.
Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
Who am I kidding?
I will probably talk about that.
Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
Your apparent inability to have any apparent inability.
Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
“You own a lot of Le Creuset, for a single lady,” he said.
Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
How to move.
Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
Something about the international sign for “I am allergic to this.”
Something about pantomiming dying.
Something about the death of pantomime, not a wordless action for death.
Something about how everyone always describes him as “nice.”
Something about this is why we did not get along.
Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
She has started to refer to going to the gym as “getting this baby-making factory ready for business.”
Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
“You always obscure the object,” they said.
But maybe they meant “the subject.”
Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
It is not as special as it sounds.
It is not as hard as it seems.
Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
She didn’t find him attractive.
She left him that way.