my receptionist

[minxnim]

has been through a lot.

now her 35 year old daughter, who has 3 kids, is dying of metastatic breast cancer. i went up to their house to check it out last weekend. and it's bad. i'm going back tonight to cook up some food for her.

this bums me out.

 

[lizard]

 

[Josh Seipp]

are you serious?? and she is lke the best receptionist too. This bums me out as well.

 

[minxnim]

the worst part is that since i've been here she has had a series of tragic things happen in her life., her grandson was permanently disabled by a gang of thugs who attacked him on a subway platform last year and her brother died of cancer last year. and so on and so on.
her daughter is a really strong person. she's still going to work even though she has these really wicked open sores and a lot of fatigue and pain. but i can tell when my receptionist comes in some days that she just wants to flop over on her desk and bawl.

 

[xfer]

I guess people like that are the ones who counterbalance the golden-boy yachting types who die at age eighty while sitting on a white wrought-iron bench by a pond on their personal estate.

 

[minxnim]

those people don't have half as much fun as she does though when she goes out. i bet.

 

[xfer]

what could be funner than croquet and cocaine?!

 

[minxnim]

bronx house parties.

 

[xfer]

they totally have croquet and cocaine at bronx house parties. right?

 

[minxnim]

close. they have red stripe and darts.

 

[xfer]

jarts?!

 

[minxnim]

no you have to have a lawn for jarts don't you?

 

[xfer]

my impression of jarts is that it's really only good for killing toddlers--80s jarts panic really affected me.

 

[minxnim]

i remember this girl gretchen hitting my mom with a jart by accident when my mom was sunbathing. she was ripped.

 

[xfer]

also, punctured.

 

[minxnim]

i dont remember where it hit her. i think it more gave her a bruise and didn't break skin.

 

[FalseTodd]

one of my friends from high school caught a lawn dart in the shoulder when he was little. His parents got in on the class action suit. I'm sure they made like $1.50 for their trouble.

 

[minxnim]

okay i am about to take delores out to lunch now and go help her find supplements for her daughter at the health food store.