Sisters and Summer, Someplace or Another

by Sara Sarmiento

BUSY

sometimes memoirs are so eventful and

action packed that somehow, through all the

drama and the sorrow and the passion and the

agony, you FOrget that you’re reading about a

real person’s life. you forget that an actual

flesh and blood person is recounting their

lifetime in those words because you’ve

developed so much distance between them and

the ones you’d use to describe your own life.

It’s a big hit!

Girls are sooo dumb! hilarious!

now that is a joke!

Comedians on tv make these jokes about teen girls that they think are so universally funny.

Usually the “joke” is just to add “Ew!” or “whatever!” at the end of every sentance. Or say “like” after

every second or third word.

idk who decided it was okay

to continuously

publicly diminish

and dehumanize

the voiceof

an entire culture

of people but.......

oh, wait!

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COMCAST

In the summertime, for as long as I can remember theres been an evil bird. The evil bird of Summer!

The evil bird of summer comes around every day to let you know that the day is half over and you haven’t gotten out of bed yet.

I feel like Kim’s gotten so much less annoying this year I think

that having the baby really forced her to mature

That’s when you know that by 4:00 pm you’ll only have moved down to the living room where you’ll be eating your weight in cheez-its and

watching entire style network marathons

just because you ate a bowl of cereal doesn’t mean you’ve started your day, and eating more bowls of cereal won’t make you feel more accomplished than if you’d stopped at one. The bird knows all this

and it lives for the moment when you realize that the day is about to end and you’re about to go to sleep in the same place you woke up, just to do it all again tomorrow.

Keka wants us to come over today

ehhhh

Okay but i have to take a shower

oh god please no we’ll never

leave!okay i took a shower last

night but whatever

Um sorry I’m not a filthy animal like you so i actually

have to bathe

gabriela* relation: little sis

* special talents: can make all kinds of naturalskin/hair products from scratch, communicates w/ animals,

can eat an entire burrito during the car ride home from chiptole withoutdropping a single bean

* Famous quote: “if you don’t like Alanis morisette, chances are you’reprobably a boy.”

introducing...

Guns in the summatime, chika-cherry cola lime, prison isn’t nothin to me, if you’ll be by my side

I thought it was ‘buns’

what was buns

‘buns in the summertime’

Trip to my grandfather’s house. keka lives there too, that’s what we call our aunt.

3:30 pm

ahahahahahaha!

oh my gosh!

hola, tata!

no pueden leer?Can’t you guys read?

it’s a joke, tata is a very

funny man and a wealth of

knowledge and he is also

VERY good at math.

Keka’s House!and tata’s house too, that’s what

we call our grandfather.

x

papi never let us play cards with you guys

We’re gonna play cards today, i’ll teach you.

*already snoring somehow*

joohoooo!!

maybe he thinks you will get addicted

to gambling

noooo, probs not, keka

...por dios...oh, okay then

we play.

papá! wake up vamos a jugar.1

okay gabriela, make a paper for the

scores

When we go to the doctor’s office he asks the girl at

the counter if he can have those

esperate Gabriela, look...

watcha gots for me, tots

oh my god, he’s

crazy!

no tienes la inteligencia

para entender

3

....oh my

gosh, tata...

son para los papeles, mira

2

gracias, tata

i don’t know whathe does with them or why he wants them!

en espanol

1 we’re going toplay!

2 wait!

3 they’re for papers, look

4 you don’t have the inteligence to understand!

4

3

in some ways it takes a lot out of you to visit your grandparents.

maybe that’s why you get fed so much there, to build up your strength.

i like this house a lot because its like every object in it has been in thesame place since i was born. i look at the object and i get zoomedback in time, through my entire history with that object. the only

thing i can think of thats different is once i threw a tomato behind the couch because i didn’t want to eat it anymore and i doubt that

tomato is still there. but you truly never know, and that’s also part of the experience. it’s a house as mysterious as it is familiar.

there’s a lot of rigorous mental activity that goes on in a place like this.

ethan*relation: super cute boyfriend

* special talents: tech genius, videogame genius, ramen noodle genius

* famous quote: “when i grow up i’ll be a dog lawyer.fight for dogs rights.”

introducing...

you are insane.

ethan the trick is you can’t be afraid to die

my boyfriend ethan is also my best friend, which is something

that i think a lot of couples say, but none of them really mean as intensely as we do.

his house often provides a much

needed change of scenery when the

living room at home starts to lose its

appeal, and is just the thing to freshen up the stalest of days.

there’s nothing like switching living rooms toremind you just how much you enjoy doing

absolutely nothing- just when you werestarting to question it!

���� ����

ethan’s cASAES MI CASA BUT BETTER

in outventure

“Soooo idk,

what do you feel like doing?”

ethan lets get food

okay but i’mnot eating ‘causei’m super bloated

even if its noodles?

is this shirt cuter thanthe one i had on before?

i dunno but i’m lookin’ hella chonky

truuue

no i am...but in a

good way

the dreaded left-turn light...

JJ brain*, activate!

* JJ brain

ethan is the fastest delivery driver at

jimmy john’s (JJ), so, he’s got all the

tricks...as long as he’s within the jj

delivery zone parameters.

PREPAID TOLLSONLY

OR TOLLBY PLATE

ONLY

ROADWORK AHEAD

SPEEDLIMIT60

TOLL VIOLATIONSPHOTO ENFORCED

KEEP LEFT

Sun-pass only?! that’s so invasive!

i mean, how can they just expect every

person to buy a certain thing?

or else be left to suffer by the hands of the toll-by-plate system

Pharmacy 24/724

Hour Photo

Ethan wait for mei have to

tie my shoes!hey no offense

but why the hell did you take your

shoes off for a 3 minute drive

...10 minutes out of the caroh nooo,

my shoe broke!

what! but thoseare brand new!

stay

Bonds in Seconds

Great for Metal * Wood

Glass * Plastics

Ceramic

this tiny tube is almost 5 freakin’

dollars! no waaay

i guess its like, how i pay $20

for the mini tube of coldsore meds

though

Bonds in Seconds

Great for Metal * Wood

Glass * Plastics

Ceramic

ethaaan...

chicken...

wait is there even vegetarian ramen

chicken or beef?

i dunno its not like its real chicken or anything

uhhh what the hell?

hey come on, man!you have to help her!

and please remember my broth to noodle ratio

you gotta squeeze the whole tube and press

real tight there

oh my god that’s burning!

YOU’RE GLUING my shoeto my foot!

okay we’re going home!

* previously on, “Gilmore Girls” * * previously on, “Gilmore Girls” *

okay you have to make them ‘cause mine always come out

too gooey

gaby:

coming

backfrom

work

@ night

*rustle**rumble*

...

are you racoon? or human.

racoon or

human?!

racoon.

...

...

i guess the only “conclusion” or closure or whatever that life

actually ever brings you is death. in south florida you hear “summer” equated with “death” all the time:

the heat’ll kill us, it’ll kill the grass, and it’ll kill the stray

cats and squirrels that sit on the asphalt for too long.

i’d conclude with the statement that the whole of so-flo summer can be seen as a near death experience.therefor, everyone’s priorities during this time should

be viewed within this context.