Friday, June 26, 2009

Stop all the clocks,

cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead.

-W.H. Auden


Michael Jackson, The King of Pop.
6/26/09

Saturday, June 20, 2009

So Yesterday,

was an okay day I guess. I don't remember what happened though, now that I..oh wait...hmm...yesterday..oh yeah, so yesterday I just stayed home for the most par..oh fuck! Dude, so yesterday! I had my driving test in the morning. Damn, it was a total failure, let me tell you that. But the sad thing? I didn't really actually fail! It was the damn..shit, just wait, lemme explain. So I wake up at 7, take a shower, call back Vivian, informed her that I was already awake and apologized to her for not being the one to wake me up, grope around a bit for some clothes I think, then at around 7 30 I'm already downstairs. My dad doesn't let me eat anything.

Ti, what do you want to eat?
uhm...how about...cereal?
No.
Rice and..
No, you might get a stomach ache.
Alright well..
Here, eat bread and I'll grab some cream cheese for you.
Okay.

I eat in silence while my dog watches from behind the glass door that leads into the backyard. I was actually not nervous to be honest. I was in the zone I guess you can call it. The driving zone. I was ready to take that test. I was ready to get my license. I was ready. My cell goes off and I pick up. It's Judy.

Hello, can I please speak to..Duy?
(Dude..you're calling my cell..you ARE speaking to Duy)
Oh yeah, this is Duy.
Oh hello Duy, this is Judy, I'm two minutes away.
Oh okay, bye.

Next thing I know I'm sitting in the driver's seat of a Toyota Yaris. We drive off and go pick up Annie. Her appointment was at 9 and mines was just thirty minutes before that. Everything was going just as planned. Life was swell. I looked at everything with a sense of optimism and delight. I was happy. I drove like I was flying. The car, floating above clouds of white. Life was exciting, life was great, life was swell. Everything was going well.

YEAH...everything WAS going well until the test examinar told me I couldn't take the test because I had a broken brake light. FUCK THAT. WTEFLAJLK;FJELWKJAFE.EFWALJFEKLWJFEW.

Fcuk. I'm good, I'm good. So fuck, after that all I did was sit in the toyota listening to a sad song on the radio. Judy was on the phone with Allen, my driving instructor, who was bringing another car for Annie to take the test in. Lucky. Sigh, whatever, Hopefully I can take it again on Monday, but if not Monday, then some other time the week after, which TOTALLY SUCKS HUGE BALLS....

Anywho, have a good day everyone.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009