{"id":220,"date":"2005-09-25T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=220"},"modified":"2005-09-25T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-26T02:48:00","slug":"220","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/25\/220\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graphics\/camera\/2005\/09\/26-tomatoes.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"21\">First, I must admit that I did indeed steal green tomatoes from my neighbor&#8217;s yard on Wednesday and send them home to my mother. They were on my side of the fence, and she needed them I assure you. Perhaps I&#8217;ll go to hell, but at least it will be for a good reason. <\/p>\n<p>I seem to be punished for it. I have had an evil return of the acid reflux problems&#151;burping and acid and boiling. I can&#8217;t figure out what I&#8217;ve changed greatly about my eating. I promise that I didn&#8217;t eat any of those tomatoes. Both of them went to Virginia. All I can think of is that I was perhaps eating regular meals while my sister was in town, and my schedule is all wacky again now that she&#8217;s gone. I also remember trying a tropical punch Fuze Tuesday night. It contained some pineapple juice and turned out to be a bad idea; but could it have caused all this? It doesn&#8217;t feel good, and I am really quite unpleasant to be around. Good thing I don&#8217;t have friends around to listen to this horror.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagesforallages.com\/\">Pages for All Ages<\/a>, the local indy bookstore, to take advantage of my birthday discount. I got two YA books that dabble in multimodal kinds of writing in some way:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/061849491X\/qid=1127704380\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/103-7381419-2275046?v=glance&#038;s=books\"><i>i can&#8217;t tell you<\/i> by Hillary Frank<\/a> is a multigenre novel that consists of a range of notes that the protagonist, Jake, writes&#151;including e-mail messages, notes on dry-erase boards, napkins, tablecloths, and even upside-down calculator messages.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0385732422\/qid=1127704436\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/103-7381419-2275046?v=glance&#038;s=books\"><i>Confessions of a Boyfriend Stealer [A Blog]<\/i> by Robynn Clairday<\/a> combines blog entries and message boards with connecting narrative to tell how the blog author, Genesis Bell, loses her two best friends.\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0380977788\/qid=1127704476\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/103-7381419-2275046?v=glance&#038;s=books\"><i>Coraline<\/i> by Neil Gaiman<\/a>. I&#8217;ve always thought that the book looked freaky and wasn&#8217;t interested in reading it as a result. Lisa got a copy along with a huge pile of books for a graphic novel project we&#8217;re working on. Sharon said that she and her son liked the book, and there was a Terry Pratchett quotation on the back. So I decided that maybe I should try not to look at the pictures and read it anyway. Maybe if I put it in that cloth paperback book cover I have&#8230;  We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>All this is sort of silly. I have 21 books on the table that I need to write reviews of for my other site, and I have 13 books lying there that I haven&#8217;t read yet. 15 books if you count the books in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0060094931\/qid=1127704571\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/103-7381419-2275046?v=glance&#038;s=books\">Bromeliad Triology<\/a> separately. Just noticed that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0060541881\/qid=1127703746\/sr=8-3\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl14\/103-7381419-2275046?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\">next book in the Johnny Maxwell trilogy<\/a> is due out in January. I&#8217;m not sure about buying it though. Book one seemed somewhat pushed and obvious. Fortunately, I have months to decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, I must admit that I did indeed steal green tomatoes from my neighbor&#8217;s yard on Wednesday and send them home to my mother. They were on my side of the fence, and she needed them I assure you. Perhaps I&#8217;ll go to hell, but at least it will be for a good reason. 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