Posts Tagged ‘listening’

Going To Make Myself Some Toast.

In Brain Functions, Reckonings on 19 November 2009 tagged elevators, listening, liu bolin, mornings, strange with 2 comments

Today I discovered that, among other things, I will never be a salesman. The boxes of confectionery I’m supposed to sell are sitting on the kitchen table, elongated pentagonal cupolas of brown (more black than yellow) polyethylene plastic. Yesterday a boy sold ten in half an hour, and I debated between throttling him or hugging him: which [...]

I Like Not Having To Sleep Off A Hangover.

In Brain Functions on 31 October 2009 tagged listening, teenager, writing with 4 comments

Sometimes I’ll be talking as if vomiting, spewing and gesticulating with few pauses and poor enunciation. The way I do anything – move, write, smack - mimics the way I talk, which is absolutely furious. More often that not I end up with my palms turned skyward, or pressed to my knees, panting like some kind of [...]