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C writes me from France that they missed me for the European reporters conference there – he said the last night was wild – sorry to have missed it this year – last year we went to Krakow and had too much fun. His darling Juliette is due soon with Camille, their bebe – I want a wife name Juliette! – she is a sexpot who sings beautifully and she and C often play music…
Last night we went out for a T’s birthday dinner – her birthday was in July, but she was gone, we were gone, so we went last night to Emeril’s then Rio Mar – P came with us and so the four of us were talking and the subject of G came up with G sitting there and T kind of went on the offensive and I naturally went on the defensive for G and…
I stopped in the LaLa with the Bean this morning on our walk – btw fall is in the air and the breeze was blowing so lovely that it made me nostalgic – fall always does that, I think of uniforms (like the Cabrini girls) and lunch boxes and corduroy and wool and fire – something so magical about fall – anyway I stopped in and K was there and I looked over the bathrooms…
Last night before I picked up G to go to dinner, I drove by the LaLa to get my mail and there were two hay bales of insulation with a can light sitting in the front yard. I called S to ask what up and he said he forgot them so I dragged them back to the back of the house in my high heels. And lo and behold my neighbor who shares the same…
T said yesterday that sleep apnea is the new new thing, I said I thought acid reflux was the new thing and he said acid reflux is so last year. Well I was reading a magazine and there was an issue advertisement for isitreallydepression.com and here are the symptoms for bipolar disorder – hmmm, me thinks I have it: Has there ever been a period of time when you: felt so good or so hyper…
It’s not easy staying positive when the odds are against you – I told G to quit reading the Times Picayune since it was full of bad news and told her I was going to start my own paper filled with hopeful news – she called me Rachel Stroup after that Sheila Stroup woman who writes from the Xanax suburbs of New Orleans – I was trying to input a ton of stuff into the…
You know that adage about men that they all think “if I can’t fuck it, kill it” – well: I brought the flashing and the primer to the LaLa and K said he had decided not to do the roof.
My first husband used to build boats with Dave Sintes – I went over to get marine primer for the windows in the bathroom and across from his boat place is his brother’s place. The whole ground floor is makeshift tables with stuff they salvaged from the storm. Upstairs did not get flooded, and that is where most of the retail clothes and what not lives, but Stevie, the son, said yeah, we didn’t get…
I went by Twickler’s this morning to get some flashing and he said that he drove out to Chalmette and was disheartened by everything he saw – “whole strip malls and corners that were once vibrant and bustling are dead” “the Corrugated company with building after building, it’s all nothing now” “inside there used to be machines and rolls and rolls of aluminum, now there is nothing” “one guy is sitting at a desk with…