so much for sentimentalityto all my readers (enter crickets): unfortunately, i accidentally deleted my original comments interface account. i had to create a new one on
backblog and it
erased all my previous comments. i'm sad. so much history on those comments. sorry...(sigh).
marking timei think my fascination with marking the of passage time serves a large part of my over sentimentality. whenever i think of thoughts or do actions that i haven't done in awhile, i always think, "wow. the last time i did this, things were like that." today, was full of a lot of that--in some of the most mundane ways.
i was reaching into a kitchen drawer to pull out a sandwich bag when the thought hit me: the last time i pulled out a sandwich bag, it was still summer and i was with "r." tonight, as i drove to fairfax high for my second date with "a," i kept thinking: the last time i was at fairfax high was when i went to see "c's" play with "r." when "a" and i were sitting inside the greenway theatre at fairfax high, i noticed that a lot of the set design for "c's" play was still in place: was that really only a month and a half ago?
i think it's a natural thing for humans to mark time, but why i ask, WHY do I mark time with some of the most ridiculous things... PULLING OUT A ZIPLOC BAG FOR CHRISSAKE'S??! i understand traveling down roads once travelled before--more talented writers actually write volumes of going down actual "memory lanes." maybe i've found my niche. i'll be the hack writer who marks time with ideas like: the last time i pulled out the garbage cans to the curb, the divorce wasn't yet final. yeah... i find those mental nuggets that no one else in the world cares for.