the Nixionary

There is rain when I walk the ten minutes into town for a large coffee, and then, the lady at the library is awfully surly with me about printing $30.40 worth of copies. I wonder why she’s mad since she’s the one getting my money. I leave the copies on the counter and [...]

Henry James, yes, a smart man, said: “Genius is the act of perceiving similarity among disparate things,” but he’s got to be wrong on that one. Disparate things are coming together in my life in alarming frequency, and I have absolutely nothing to do with it. Who’s the genius behind these coincidences? [...]

I came to the library to use the internet.
Out of the eight library computers: seven are being used by children who are playing role playing games.
This is a problem because the sun is out. This is a problem because I need a computer. This is a problem because of the seven children playing [...]

Vinnie, the other middle school writing teacher, who I’ve been helping, said the other day during class:
“Things that don’t go together naturally are the things that go together best.”
Since he said that, I’ve been mentally cataloguing juxtapositions, and like the wierd realm that onomatopoeias inhabit in my brain (the realm where everything is an onomatopoeia– [...]

Major change here: the unadulterated sun appeared in the sky this morning! I feel like I’ve been reborn.
I keep trying to glean energy from the people who live here, since I seem to be lacking some of it due to the overbearing weight of gray weather. Unbridled people of particular interest:
Keith: the tiny [...]