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Jun.25.2009
6:11pm Citrus Ave.
I am home. Left work early - not too early - 5:35pm. At 4:30pm I went to the gym in the basement at work, and since that's officially in the working facility, I consider that still on the clock.
But now I am home and I have the whole evening before me. I am drinking a glass of...
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Jun.23.2009
Typewriter Day
Honoring Christopher Sholes' 1868 patent for the typewriter.
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Jun.17.2009
Sunday 7:09pm
I'm watching the third quarter of the Playoff's with Bobby and his sister, Maria. The Lakers vs. The Magic in Orlando. The Lakers are up by thirteen. Earlier we had a barbeque - just us three. Chicken apple sausages, lamb shoulder, top sirloin, salmon, red, yellow, and green...
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Jun.11.2009
Just walked to Ralph's - the over crowded location at 3rd and La Brea. Even on a Thursday morning at 11am people are waiting in line at the deli counter. Walking home, turning down Sycamore as I always do with it's beautiful canopy of trees and four bedroom, 2 1/4 bathroom two story apartments...
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Jun.05.2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
9:44am
Citrus Ave.
It is raining. Beautiful out. Can see the Hollywood hills. Clear, clear. Rain reminds me of my childhood. Of the weather in Victoria, B.C. Some things that remind me of my childhood I don’t like. But the rain, the rain is good.
Just home from walking...
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May.28.2009
7:01 PM
What happened today?
Let's see -
Bobby built a wall. He's building a writing shack in Mount Washington, on his sister's property. She lives in one of those houses that is built on a hill on stilts and that's where Bobby has decided to build his 'dream home.' It's complicated because of...
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May.27.2009
Tonight I’m supposed to go to my boyfriend’s, Bobby's, mother’s house. I like going over there. It’s in Eagle Rock, near my favorite Target. But tonight, I’m not so sure about going over. My boyfriend knows I have ice-cream issues and warned me that his mom has Breyer’s Cookies N’Cream in the...
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May.25.2009
I can't live with food in the house. Not even oatmeal. I used to be able to live with oatmeal as long as there wasn't honey around. I don't know what changed that.
I don't know how my sister does it. She lives with pecans, cashews, almonds, macadamia nuts, dried apricots, raisins, cake batter,...
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May.21.2009
At what point does he stop telling you
You look nice
I like being told I look nice
Very much.
I'm looking out the window
Past Paramount Studios on Melrose
the glamour
the glamorous
How nice it is
To be told
You look nice
Oh, this poem is no good.
It rhymes, well, maybe not
But it’s in my head
And I...
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May.21.2009
Author’s note: Chloe is an L.A.-based, 22 year old actress with a Master of Dramatic Arts degree working as a TV and movie extra -- and stripper -- while she waits to break into the Hollywood scene. What follows is the opening section of Diary of a Non-Starlet. A work of fiction, the book begins...
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May.21.2009
[In voice of Chloe, from work in progress, Diary of a Non-Starlet]
I've wanted to be many things in my life.
An actress.
A ballet dancer.
A stripper.
A hooker.
And a girlfriend to many guys.
But what have I done?
Not much.
Where am I now?
I work as a hostess at Louis XIV. I have no special talents...
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About Hannah
Hannah Sward lives in Los Angeles and is a graduate of Antioch University. She is currently working on a 'linked' collection of stories in the voice of Chloe, an aspiring young actress, movie extra, restaurant hostess and sometime stripper.
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