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The blog of an obsessive-compulsive who has a "purging" reaction to certain words and sights (the M-word, the I-word, the WH-word, etc.).
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Shawn and the schlong
On Tuesday Jolene's house provided her with money -- about $6 -- when we picked her up."What would you like to eat, Jolene?", La Netta asked her."A taco", said Jolene."All right, we'll get that", said La Netta."So I guess that means we're going to Ta...
The day I ate inside Taco Bell
On Friday, December 11, Darnell drove me to the office during pick-ups, while the batteries in my headphones were dead."Commercial break!", I told him when commercials came on on the radio.But Darnell said, "James, I want to listen to them."I continu...
Full of delays
On Friday morning, I stepped into the CIWP van. Rosa and Kay were there. But Rodney came out undressed.The staff said he had dressed himself and undressed himself six times that morning. "He's clearly tweaking", said Rosa. After Rodney refused to get...
The day I just kept hearing trigger words
Thursday morning, our group drove to CIWP together."Cutxe pie" or "Sweetxe pie", I heard Francisco, a client who speaks in broken English, say as he was speaking to Lisa. "My darling!""La Netta!", I called."La Netta!", I repeated.I got out of the van...
Summer cleaning
So this week-end I finally got around to doing laundry. Stan had brought some cardboards, which I cut up and used to scrape out the washing machine, then I got to scraping it with the plastic container my frozen longans had come in. Soon I put in my ...
Getting up on the wrong side of the bed
When my staff told me La Netta was here this morning, I was very tired. I lay in bed for about three more minutes before getting out.I combed my hair and applied deodorant, put my sunglasses on, then grabbed my CD player and headphones and turned off...
Waiting for the little boys to get out
We were at Vincent Park when Rosa said "jxggling". She suddenly stopped speaking, and I growled. I started to walk out to the restroom."There are kids in the restroom," said La Netta. "And that restroom only has one stall."I jerked nervously as I wai...
Robert returns
Imagine my surprise when I came back to program on Monday morning and found Robert in the van."Robert? You're still here?", I asked.We completed our pick-ups then drove to the office. I stayed in the van with Rosa while La Netta took Jolene to change...
Emanuel music
Yesterday, I went to Wal-mart and got my juices. Then the group split for Barnes and Noble and Ross. La Netta was going to Ross, while Rosa was headed to Barnes and Noble. I went to Barnes and Noble, and told Emanuel that I wanted to show him the New...
Happy birthday to Emanuel
On Thursday, July 9, the group celebrated Emanuel's birthday (Emanuel turned 28).La Netta expected at first that he would want to be dropped off at Berkeley, but Emanuel said that for his birthday he was staying with the group, so he could be dropped...
I show my eyes
I hate showing people my eyes, but on Tuesday I had to do it.Wanda and Alejandra had Tiffany's usual people: Robert, Tully, Shawn and Rodney, plus me. They were listening to KMEL, so I put on my headphones and turned them up to full blast.Then, the h...
Cutxe songs
Tiffany picked me up today, and Alejandra was in the van with her. I brought my headphones along, not knowing how important they would be on this day. When I picked them up on the seat the puff came off one of my headphones.". . . caught your cutxe e...
Another gag song
On Thursday, the radio was down low. I heard some bits of words and hoped it wasn't the "Cutxe pie, cutxe pie" song, so I had La Netta turn it up.". . . a cutxe with a [something] booty", the song went."Echh!", I said."Booty?", asked Rosa."No, the wo...
Song deciphering
La Netta and Lita were in the van with me on Monday and the radio was on. I heard a song I had heard before. The first time I heard it I had gagged and said they said "cutxe pie" in the chorus. La Netta had said that she had heard them say "Here am I...
The burrito that Jolene didn't want
I came to program with my headphones today. La Netta wasn't here, so Rosa was joined by Donna. Ganesh was part of our group.When Jolene got in the van, Rosa told her, "Move over, Jolene".Then Donna, not remembering why Rosa had used the word move, sa...
Lots of lyrics
We had the radio on Movin' 99.7, and it played a rap song. There were several "-op" lines, like, "Ten years from now and we'll still be on top". I thought they said "slxp"."Did this song say the SL-word?", I asked La Netta.She didn't respond."La Nett...
Bernard learns the C-word
Stan had me take a drive with him so we could drop Aaron off at John's.While I was in the van, I had a conversation with Bernard, who was one row in front of me. Bernard told me he had gotten a new stuffed animal. He bragged about how he got it, then...
I hear the C-word yet again
We were driving down the street today when, out of the blue, Kweisi said, "Cutxe pie"."Ech!", I said."What's wrong, James?", asked Kweisi."You said the C-word", I told him."No, I said, 'Cutxe pie'," said Kweisi."Ech! That's the C-word!""Sorry, James!...
Ech again!
We were listening to KISS-FM. The songs finished playing and a commercial came on. I heard Tony Sandoval's voice. then they played the whistle from "Brick House" by the Commodores. "She's . . .", Tony Sandoval said. Anticipating the C-word, I began t...
La Netta tunes out
On Wednesday, I was driving home with just La Netta. The song "Smooth" by Santana had just finished playing on KISS-FM, and the DJ, Tony Sandoval, commented on how odd a couple Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas were.Right then, he said, "The young cutxes...
A lot of trouble to get pizza
I asked my staff for a chimichanga, and she said we were out of them. "Do you want lasagna?", she asked."Where's the lasagna?", I asked."It's in the freezer", she said.I looked in the freezer and found the lasagna I had bought from Trader Joe's. I ex...
Bobby Brown
We were driving to Ken's house with KISS-FM on the radio when a song that sang "Don't be cruel" came on the radio. "Girl, you've got to change your attitude", the male singer sang.While we entered the first full verse, I heard what sounded like "cutx...
Inauguration Day
Today was the day Chimpy finally left office. After eight years of the living incarnation of evil as president, I can stop biting myself over Junior. This next four years might see the end of racial profiling, or the legalization of marijuana, or gre...
On the quest for liqueur cake
A few weeks ago, Lita made us pick up Dante and we missed Trader Joe's. Then the next day we had Trader Joe's, Stan didn't bring me my money. Then was Tuesday, when we skipped the Trader Joe's in Alameda because La Netta couldn't drive all the way to...
A day with Don
At 8:58 this morning, I was woken up and picked up by Don.He had both Emanuel and Robin in the back seat, so I sat in the middle row this time. Then Don picked up Jeremy."How old are you?", asked Emanuel."I'm 29", I told him."Are you still young?", a...
Better than turkey, it's lemon meringue!
On Wednesday, we ran into FoodsCo. We started by looking at the pies. There were pumpkin pies and apple pies and coconut cream pies and banana cream pies, but what I had wanted the other day was a lemon meringue pie. La Netta found one in the pie sec...
A tiring day
Yesterday, La Netta drove us down to Firestone so we could pick up another van instead of the one that's being "serviced". While I walked around to the door of the van, I saw a plastic frok littered on the ground. "Ewwwww!", I exclaimed."Why did you ...
I can't hold it in!
Today we were going to visit a mall that had a Wal-mart in it. Sounds like a great day, doesn't it? After that was the Natural Grocery Company, Bo's Doughnuts and the library.Well, then we drove to a park that had police cars. Ken said, "There are co...
Mon in love
We had parked in front of the office, when Brenda asked Mon how old she was. Mon said she was 27, and that her birthday was in August."So you just had your birthday", said Brenda."We had a cake", said Mon. She continued to talk about it. "It was an i...
Snack truck
Our first stop today was Barnes & Noble. We let La Netta stop in front of the bookstore to eat her McDonald's order, then I got Jolene's wheelchair and we went in.La Netta hold onto me with her arm. I closed my eyes and walked through the store. ...
