Saturday, October 21st, 7:00pm
Hillary (and Sean)(and Drommen)
Hillary sits at the window. Sean takes the seat beside her.
Sean: Hey.
Hillary stares out the window.
Sean: What the fuck’s up with you lately?
Hillary: Nothin’
Sean: You’re still waitin’ for that creepy guy?
Hillary: He’s not creepy. He’s nice.
Sean: What’s his name?
Hillary: Whatever. Jake. Whatever.
Sean: Yeah well, I heard he likes to expose himself on the bus.
Hillary:(turns to him) Who told you that?
Sean:(shrugs) Does it matter? The guy’s a creep.
Hillary rests her head against the window and looks out.
Sean: What do you say we just go get fucked up?
Hillary: Not interested.
Sean: Suit yourself. But don’t go whinin’ to me if he asks … Hey, isn’t that him? (points at Drommen, boarding the bus)
Hillary:(sits up straight) Yeah.
Sean:(mockingly) Should I leave the two of you alone? Maybe he’ll show you his wiener.
Hillary: Maybe you’re a wiener.
Drommen, carrying a grocery bag, walks up the aisle and stops in front of Sean.
Drommen:(to Hillary) Hi, Jessica.
Sean:(looks up at Drommen) Hey, asshole.
Drommen holding his hands behind his back, leans down and says something in Sean’s ear. Sean gets up and moves to the rear of the bus, and Drommen takes his seat.
Hillary: What did you say to him?
Drommen:(holds open his bag for her to look inside) I just offered him a sausage.
Thyme and time again, every week, it seems, I post a prompt with a bit of an idea in my head of what I’m going to write, but when I finally sit down, it’s something else. This week, I’m writing rather gingerly (in a way), because I’m trying to do it around all the other things I should be doing for tomorrow’s birthday party dinner.
I invited friends and family to cumin join us, and have already bought cards for myself and my mother to give to Alex (a cardamom), but I still have to go buy a few presents. And wrap them. Which of course will make them all parsley. (That made me laugh.)
Although he doesn’t eat (my son is tube-fed), Alex likes to choose what everyone else wants, and if it’s something that tastes good to him, he’ll have some. For tomorrow, he’s requested “big chicken,” which means a whole barbecued chicken from the grocery store. And a Spiderman cake for dessert, which I really should order soon. Mustardiness rule my life all the time? I need to follow my own sage advice: don’t procrastinate! I need to sumac myself upside the head with it once in a while.
Whatever happens, I’m sure tomorrow’s dinner will be peppered with love, free of a salt (ouch, that was a stretch), and anise day all around. In fact, it may just be a macing. And dinner itself is sure to be savory.
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Wednesday, October 18th, 6:00pm
Everyone on the bus
Everyone: (singing)
Does your mother tell you things
Long, long when I’m gone?
Who you talking to?
Is she telling you I’m the one?
It’s a grave mistake
And I’m wide awake
Drive in’s rained out
Weatherman wet fingers the sky
He pokes it out, he pulls it in
He don’t know why
It’s the same mistake
It’s been a long time running
It’s been a long time coming
It’s well worth the wait
We don’t go anywhere
Just on trips
We haven’t seen a thing
We still don’t know where it is
It’s a safe mistake
It’s been a long time running
It’s been a long time coming
Well, well, it’s all the same mistake
Dead to rights and wide awake
I’ll drop a caribou
I’ll tell on you
I’ll tell on you
I’ll tell on you
You’ve got a boatload of nerve
But I would say you’ve been told
You work me against my friends and you’ll get
You’ll get left out in the cold
It’s the same mistake
It’s been a long time running
It’s been a long time coming
It’s been a long, long, long time running
It’s well worth the wait
It’s well worth the wait
It’s well worth the wait
It’s well worth the wait
Long Time Running by: Gordon Downie, Robert Baker, Paul Langlois, Johnny Fay, Gordon Sinclair
Dedicated to all of Canada.
Rest in peace, Gordie.
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