using it upAn inventory, not a haul

read 14 SEP 2026The letter

94 entries73 published21 in the queue292 spoken lines21 with no lines72 photographs9 objects18 the longest run5 columns8.5 a weekread 14 SEP 2026

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the version of me that shops her own shelves first

17 JUL 2026Became someone4 spoken lines, 59 wordsthe shelf, 5 of 13

Filed under

Became someone. The version of me who already has enough of it. Same shelf, different appetite.

The caption it went out with

everything i need is already here.

I'm becoming the version of me that shops her own shelves first.

Before anything else, she checks the back of the cabinet. The drawer she never opens.

And almost every time, it's already in there. Bought months ago by a version of me who forgot.

So the list gets shorter on its own. Not from discipline. Just from looking.

The rest of the shelf

13 entries are the shelf. This is 5. Every object here is a still from that entry's own footage.

The object

This is the shelf, entry 5 of 13. 10 of them have gone out. 8 photographs were taken of it.

They are filed under 5 still works, 5 became someone, 2 noticed, 1 didn't buy it.

The newest one says: still working, still here

What a row says

The object. Which of the 9 things on the shelf this entry is, and which time round. Each object carries 4 to 18 entries.

Went out. The date it was published. An entry that has not been published prints In the queue instead. 21 are written and waiting.

The lines. How much was said over the object. 21 entries had nothing read over them, and 11 unpublished ones carry four.

The lines

4 lines, 59 words, against a longest of 67 in the corpus.

The headword and the first spoken line are different sentences on this entry. On 40 of the 73 narrated entries they are the same.

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