Tonight i pictured what it would be like to be trapped in a mall for the entire evening, making a polite phone call to the local police station perhaps and saying, “Excuse me. It seems we are trapped in the mall and cannot get out. It’s not that it isn’t a fine establishment, but in a few hours I think I might like to be in my bed instead of on a bench sleeping.” Julie is my ex roommate and she says things sometimes like, “Oh look! A waning gibbous!” when she looks at the moon. Every step she takes is a bounce, and she walks with her hands shoved deep in the pockets of her coat, which is brown and too heavy for the weather right now. In Barnes and Noble we sit at a table with our computers and she says, “I am too loud for a coffee shop, aren’t I?” and i tell her that i don’t think so, but maybe that depends on the coffee shop. A man near us works on his screen play and drowns everything else out with his headphones.

on the way back from the mall we stop in the donut shop and eat some. there is a small old asian man there who is a little confused, but he gives us several donuts holes each as a bonus and that is nice. i regret eating them though. Change of tense. Sort of. It was all present tense, but this is the real present tense. I now regret eating them. there is a boulder of donut in my gut and it’s worse than a pancake boulder. to be fair, the donut boulder is a combination of popcorn too.

new years eve is not a good movie, but i watched it for $2. “Wait a minute, if you’re here, then who’s in Times Square?!” The girl from Glee is, Katherin Heigl. The girl from Glee is.