Dear Diary

sarah.achtemeier@gmail.com
Austin, TX
Artist

Sarah: I just had a dream about you.  I was taking a music course, and you were the TA. You gave us a quiz the first day on black construction paper, and we had to write with white crayon. I remember a couple of the questions:

  1. Define the band Boston.
  2. “I wish the world was flat like the old days, then I could travel just by folding a map. No more airplanes, or speed trains, or freeways. There’d be no distance that could hold us back” - (Death Cab for Cutie)  Explain.
  3. “No one puts baby in the corner.”
    Explain.

Rob: That wasn’t a dream, those are actual test questions I had for you. Here are the answers:

  1. Handlebar mustached harmonies doused in the blood of a bald eagle and wrung out with passion onto the writhing, naked bodies of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. Also, baked beans.
  2. If you take a lot of opium, life becomes like those nifty HP commercials. … It also becomes like the Meow Mix commercials too, though.
  3. In a room of three or more sides, baby can not be placed within the intersection of said sides. This is known as the Baby Principle.