Susan cut the card

icecreamtamer:

long ways, across the numbers. She tried to cut them in half. She didn’t want someone to piece it back together and go on a spending spree. But there wasn’t anything left on this one anyway. She cut the other way now and reduced the card to little bits of plastic confetti. There was a little computer chip in this one too, and it fell apart at her scissors, crunchy tiny bits of metal and who knows what else.

She had been waiting to cut this one for a long time. After Robert left and after they let her go at the restaurant. But things weren’t so dramatic. She still had her apartment. She still had Indy. She still had her books. She had taken to stacking them everywhere there was a flat surface. Poetry on the fridge gathering dust. Short story collections on the counter tops and kitchen table. Agatha Christie had the coffee table all to herself. Indy liked to fall asleep on the books on the TV. Self-help and biographies.

She was writing again, too. She found a typewriter at the Salvation Army. She filled pages with her thoughts. Almost a diary, but not really.

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I'm Alec. I'm go to high school in Seattle, which is a great city. I apologize if some of the stuff on this blog is immature; I was a different person when I started posting here than I am now. I tried to clean up some of the more distasteful things.

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Things I feel particularly loving for at this moment: my yellow Arrow t-shirt (Clare and the Reasons!), Pushing Daisies, FIREFLY, Community, Netflix on my phone, anticipation to go back to school, sleep, questioning whether "anticipation to go back to school" is grammatically correct, the new Voice number I just got, those times when my mind is thinking clear enough that I can actually write things in this list and not keep flipping away and feeling like I need to sleep, Luna Lovegood-(8.26.10)
theta, spring, fun ferry rides with friends, music, feeling carefree, throwing it all to the wind, future less vivid, sun, some traits of myself, insignificance, Luxana, birds, blue things, green things, white things-(3.7.10)
So I decided I'm just going to add to this list and not delete older stuff-knowledge, good things, friendly people, REGINA SPEKTOR!, words, mathematics, NPR, Luna Lovegood, the design of Wired, colours, science, more-(12.2.09)
Participles, Luna Lovegood, Mika's new album "The Boy Who Knew Too Much," Alec (me), snow, energy, my friends (aww that's sweet en't it?), Seattle, my iPhone (her name's Mollie), film!, whipped cream, love, books, my brain, laughter, other stuff