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Archive for April, 2007

Open letter to my body

Posted by Cecile on April 30th, 2007

Dear body,
What is it exactly you want from me?
Two months ago you’ve failed to prevent my wrist from breaking, causing me, if anything, to experience a minor depression. I have been semi hyperventilating on a constant basis for at least a month. And don’t think I haven’t noticed those weird little things happening to my […]

She died inside, he cried outside

Posted by Cecile on April 23rd, 2007

Yesterday my best male friend nearly lost his girl.
They had been quarrelling quite a lot lately. They felt they had an excuse though: as always they had been very busy. With everything. With nothing specifically. As a result they hadn’t been paying attention, I mean really paying attention, to what the other was feeling, doing, […]

The cat and the pyramid

Posted by Cecile on April 16th, 2007

Crash.
I panic.
I hadn’t been watching the cat for one second and now it sounds like something bad has happened. When I investigate the situation it appears the cat has jumped onto the windowsill in the kitchen, missed, fell off and took several wires and cooking utensils down with him. Luckily nothing got broken, including the […]

Writing past the block

Posted by Cecile on April 9th, 2007

I’m sitting at the dinner table staring at my way too cool Vaio laptop and it’s empty screen. It’s already Saturday. And nothing’s coming.
“That’s okay,”
I catch myself thinking,
“I still have til Sunday evening to finish my bit.”
But then I realize, I don’t. Because it’s Easter this weekend, Matt and I will go to visit my […]