The OKCupid Dating Chronicles, Jan. to Sept. 2009.

Grocery Comics Part Five.
What Happens When You Mix One Girl, One Seriously Broken Heart, A Laptop, A Lack of Money, Shit Ton Of Free Time & A Desire For Company & Adventure & Good Food & Drink.
(by request)(for another lovely elizabeth)(happy very almost birthday)

a truly beautiful awe-inspiring moment out of nowhere & one that wasn't so much of anything (vermont vs. greenfield)...

...a really stupid thing to do that turned out ok although not great, & a really sweet meeting of souls...

...incredibly delicious food but at what cost & the beginning of a series of carefully chosen adventures that were & weren't right...

...promises of tv & drinks & snacks get me to leave town for somerville on a whim & I am similarly enticed by offers of cornish game hens & bacony brussel sprouts the day after valentines day...

...a shared home town turns out to not mean that much but it was a nice evening & one of my worse decisions, but at least I got osaka sushi out of it & oh also survived...

...the best one & the most unmemorable...

...sometimes even poetry is boring & coincidence is just that...

& now, I think I'm done with this game.
But who won?

A Northampton Fairytale.

Just a typical night on the town, I guess.
I kind of wish it wasn't like this, but it seems like it is.
Noho, September, 2009, of course Tuesday night.
& (drawn in my random stolen moments at the grocery store the next day.)
Grocery Comics, Part Four.
WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT.

Peace. I wish it didn't always turn out like this.
But at least we always have real good dancing in this town.

This Is A Bad Place To Be With Something To Think About.

(Yes I Borrowed That Title)
Still More Comics From The Grocery Aisles.
Yup.
Work just hasn't gotten anymore interesting.
So certain old memories are being relived,
in the classic "comics on old sales flyer scrap paper drawn in between transactions" format.
Today's version:

"What Happened A Year Ago:
A Story Not Unrelated To The Grocery Store"
a shared favourite song plays miraculously while ordering sierra nevadas at the iron horse & sharing origin stories.

A conversation goes on too long & is way too meaningful, two nights in a row & a trust is built on a shared love of particular condiments.

the first time, & then again. & a birthday party that really wasn't but at least there were sparkling lights, a corsage of sorts, & rock music back when I enjoyed that sort of thing.
& late night diner visits almost never go wrong for me.

a day together & a beginning, or at least the promise of one. & where I met one of the best breakfast sandwiches I have ever known. & had a pretty perfect birthday.
Even if you still suck, South Deerfield.

a leap of faith, & a month or so of perfect sundays.

there was definitely more. is definitely more to come.
this is where "this is different this is special" came from.
this is what I think about at work.

Comics At The Grocery Store Week Continues.

& now presenting, what I did at work TODAY.

Yup, pretty similar to YESTERDAY.

"A Narrative of Objects, But Certainly Not An Objective One:
The 'True' Story Of What Happened To Us at DnD Last Week."

Someone moved.

Laundry was retrieved & texts sent us to all the wrong places.

New chairs were sat in & conversations of all sorts were held.

Disaster ensues.

Did we always know it would come to this?
(actually, answer=no).

Written & drawn in between the 164 transactions I rang up today, 9.10.2009.

A Brief Comic. Drawn At The Grocery Aisle.

A Day In My Life, circa Fall 2009 (i.e. NOW).
or,
(What I Did At The Grocery Store Today Was Draw This Comic).
or,
9.09.09.
(I typed that at 9:09pm, by coincidence, not kidding).

scraps regarding scraps.

awoken by identical grey tiger cats, & walking in my boots & legwarmers.

selling food, & eating yet more soup.

wine, the internets, vegetables.

art, then dancing.

late night walks, reading this, the cats once more. The End.
(This is what I do at work.)

What do you do at work?