Monday: Pick up Pooka @ 4:30 (Vet Tech NORM?)
Dinner? Ramen (chicken?)
Ray in Phoenix: 602-748-5000 (leave message with Tina tcb)
List: Tide
Milk
Tampons
Four Roses
Tune for Ray: Falling Behind - Laufey
LAUNDRY! (The sheets - they be walkin’!) 🧟
Tuesday: Flight 389, 7:15 Southwest
Ray new cell: 570-812-3434
Wednesday: Pick up Pooka @ 8:30
Pick up Pooka @ 4:40 NORM x7320
Thursday: Dr. Wilson and NORM at 8:30
Ray: Flight 7280 2:40 (UBER?)
Pooka Furtastic Spring Special - how expensive? 9:00
Cornell Oncology: 6072533060
$4600???
No. Just No.
Friday:💔
WhereTheFuck is Ray?
NOTE: Do messages to oneself count as epistolary fiction? Does talking to oneself count as dialogue? Or must it be monologue? (And does the "ue" seem as silly to you as it does to me?)
Yes. Yes. No. (Now that you mention it, perhaps.)
ReplyDeleteI am a big fan of lists and self-dialogue after reading Ducks, Newburyport, so I loved this.
I really loved this. The tale a simple set of to-do items can tell. And WTF is Ray indeed?!
ReplyDeleteYour post inspired this real life version: https://aseparatelife.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/to-do-list/
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