I hop pathetically to my closet, only tripping once. Luckily, I catch
myself on my dresser. Once I have the journal in hand, I hop back to the
bed and get comfortable.
I have nothing better to do for the next week now that I can’t work. I
might as well commiserate over my past while I’m forced to commiserate
in the present.
Dear Ellen,
You hosting the Oscars was the greatest thing to happen to TV last year. I don’t
think I ever told you that. The vacuuming skit made me piss my pants.
Oh, and I recruited a new Ellen follower today in Atlas. Before you start judging
me for allowing him inside my house again, let me explain how that came about.
After I let him take a shower here yesterday, I didn’t see him again last night. But
this morning, he sat by me on the bus again. He seemed a little happier than the day
before, because he slid into the seat and actually smiled at me.
I’m not gonna lie, it was a little weird seeing him in my dad’s clothes. But the
pants fit him a lot better than I thought they were going to.
“Guess what?” he said. He leaned forward and unzipped his backpack.
“What?”
He pulled out a bag and handed it to me. “I found these in the garage. I tried to
clean them up for you because they were covered in old dirt, but I can’t do much
without water.”
I held the bag and stared at him suspiciously. It’s the most I’d ever heard him say
at once. I finally looked down at the bag and opened it. It looked like a bunch of old
gardening tools.
“I saw you digging with that shovel the other day. I wasn’t sure if you had any
actual gardening tools, and no one was using these, so . . .”
“Thank you,” I said. I was kind of in shock. I used to have a trowel, but the
plastic broke off the handle and it started giving me blisters. I asked my mother for
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