i was riding on damien jurado's tour bus but i was sad because i still hadn't heard him play. i got a job in an office with two nice old ladies.

I climbed a mountain of coal. It went to the top of the world.

Scrouge McDuck was my uncle and he had a scheme to kidnap a little girl and steal her bike and then collect ransom money for her. I'm not sure why Scrouge needed more money. He made me help him. After we captured her, we had to come up with a plan to sneak her back into her house, without her family seeing us or the little girl seeing us (we had somehow kept her from seeing us after we kidnapped her.) We rolled her into a roll of carpetting. I reasured her as we did it that she would be ok. We go tto her house and had to prentend to be interested in the furniture that her mom was selling at her yard sale. Once we got the girl back into her house, I ran down roads. Scrouge and I were never caught. Several years later the child came to a family party we were having at my grandparets house in Erie. She had turned into a boy and he was telling me about how back home he didn't have any friends and was a nerd. He didn't know that I had helped kidnap him years ago and I felt terrible. I wanted to hug him for hours.

my pap got me a job at #1 cochran. it was supposed to be some sort of child care but on my first day i had play paintball. i was very frustrated because they didn't tell me anything and i knew i would be scheduled when i had class or one of my other jobs. i was also in charge of dealing with the poisonous plants in the parking lot. i fell off a wall while i was trying to rip them out. i hated it.

I was part of a celebrity event like the Oscars, except it wasn't held in Hollywood, but instead at a big school in the middle of no where. There were crowds of adoring fans and when it was over I waved to them all as I drove away.
For Ashley's birthday we were going to go to some outlets which were several hours away. We were all so tired.
Nathan and Schmidt were opening a club. It was opening at 2am and we were all going to go. Some older guy was showing a movie of a puppet show he produced. It was very artsy and he was very serious about it.
At some point we were all swimming at the beach.

Beth left home to work in the San Diego zoo. Her job was to watch/guard/adore the grizzly bears. I went to visit her and the bears were so beautiful. We found a grocery store run by two sisters and their kids. It was in an old barn and it was the best grocery store ever. They were closing it in one week. One of their kids tried to commit suicide.

I keep dreaming of Shop'n'Save. Weird.

i was at the ocean with jay and some other folks. we were swimming and two huge, fat sharks swam right in front of us. we swam over one of them and our leg brushed it's body. they were eating dolphins. jay said they didn't scare him much but he didn't like that they were eating dolphins. steve szumetz was there, as was kevin carpenter. they were all about being true to themselves and the way they were in high school. the beach was small and densely packed with all kinds of recently dead sea animals. i collected rocks and shells and found a ray's stinger that was twelve feet long. at some point before this, kendyll and her family showed up at a party at my parents . they were driving the green weenie.
i decided to go to church. i radomly picked one to attend but somehow eveyone knew i was going to be there and showed up. it was nice at first but then the minister started antagonizing the side of the church i was sitting on because we weren't answering his questions out loud. he and i started arguing about whether any of us were intelligent. i just wanted him to leave us alone and finish his sermon. at some point, we all ended up in little tents.
jason told me he paid t-mobile extra money. he said he was curious to see what they would think of us if we did that.

Jason and I decided to have a second wedding. I was wearing a turquoise pant/jumper thing under a white slip dress. At the last minute I decided to wear my wedding dress from our first ceremony.
Mr Labuff taught an art class and was grading my drawing of a giraffe. He was just as tough of a grader as he was for English.

Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse was putting on a musical (but he was just conducting the orchestra) on the stage of my old church. It involved a graphic skit of Will Ferrell killing a mannequin prostitute, loads of covers, including Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer's 'There's Always Tomorrow', and two bonus tracks- one being a reading of his anthropology thesis.

Later, after running from the law/murderers on a 4-wheeler I had a heart to heart with my uncle's girlfriend on the lake erie beach.
"He doesn't love me anymore..." she said.
"Leave him. You're not married," I replied.

i still had two shifts at shop'n'save.
only i wasn't really working at all.

Food Dream.
my dead crab apple tree produced huge poison apples.
my mom knew not to eat them.
there was a d.i.y. sushi bar at a country club/mall.
i remember wanting to ask where they got their nori.