Daily affirmations of a word mercenary
Of course I can’t help but read through my “past posts on this day” sometimes. As I was skimming November and December of 2000, I caught myself getting sort of gripped by my and Andreas’ story … these two crazy kids in their mid-20s, and WHO KNOWS if they’ll make it?! It never seemed especially tenuous, but looking back I wonder if it was more delicate than I knew. When I re-read about all the times we moved without the other one, all the risks we took — even when I know how the story turned out (at least so far) it still makes me all nervous for the youngins we used to be. How weird is that: fretting over my own history, as if I don’t know what happened next. Odd.
Also, I’ve found posts in the archives that I’ve been like HOLY FUCK WHAT’S THAT DOING THERE?! and immediately deleted. Whups. I thought I sanitized the early archives years ago, but I guess I missed a few posts.
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, is in bookstores now.
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Alyce
November 9th, 2007 at 10:15 am
dagnabit! if only I’d resolved to read the archives earlier I would have gotten the dirrrty, unsanitized version
also, is that how you spell dagnabit?