It’s about selling Amway, and while (my sister) Amy and I think it’s just the best thing ever,

It really is torture to sit around the house and write all day. I’m thinking it might motivate me to finish the book faster, the thought that after it’s finished I can return to housecleaning. The problem is that I haven’t even started the book yet. Today

Edith Sitwell

What I think about my mother My mother is a bitch. Motherfucker shitty ass. Haffer goddamn nigger sucker she raisin’ witch. Shit. signed Charlene Moore

Near me, two teenage girls stood on the sidewalk selling cigarette lighters to raise money for a class trip. They doubled as can openers, but still, lighters! You’d never find kids doing that in America. Instead, they’d have to sell things like candy bars. I told one of the girls I had

Last night I wondered if other teachers get stoned at night. Can I be the only one? Classes start next week and I am not at all prepared.

annoys me when someone assumes he’s stronger than me and calls for a third set of hands to help. I am not a physically weak person, just uncoordinated.

I once considered suing Farrah Fawcett for invasion of privacy. Hardly a day passed when I didn’t see her on a magazine cover, an ad, a poster. She was destroying my life, but now she’s OK.

Alcohol and telephones do not mix.