Hurricane Sandy

Sitting at a cyber cafe. A cyber cafe? Sure. A cafe with internet, is what I'm saying. 

It's cold outside and I'm wearing sweat pants and penny loafers and a t-shirt and a knit sweater with trees on it, with a huge $10 leather jacket over all of it. I'm currently bleeding from a FEMININE PLACE, which accounts for the sweatpants. Also it is cold outside, I mentioned that right?

They're my mom's old sweatpants, black with a white stripe going up the sides. 

My hair is big and curly right now and it's been all over the place. I see a woman in a knit hat and a quilted white jacket with a furry hood taking a box from her car outside. A man in a brown jacket just shut the trunk. 

My neighborhood was affected (effected?) by Hurricane Sandy. I made a list of words during the worst of it, a short account (a very short account) of stuff that I was seeing. 

Also I talked to my sister on the phone last night for a very long time, and we got caught up. She's a very honest person, or it sounds that way anyway. She tries to be self-aware and she tries to express herself clearly to certain people, at certain times. It was a great relief to talk to her.

Anyway, here's the list, jokesters!

(Also, hope anyone who might be reading this is having a good day.)

Hurricane Sandy:

• cold nose
• two sweaters
• no traffic lights
• no power
• dark at 7pm
• cops direct traffic
• constant sirens
• no internet
• no phone service
• free muffins!
• free water!
• free orange spice tea!
• candles in shops
• Emma's Dilemma Cafe
• Gramercy Star
• Bread & Butter
• sign in and out of building
• shattered revolving door
• no classes
• $8 sandwich
• $20 from mom
• $8 from auntie
• Other People podcasts
• White Album
• lesbian dreams
• Disney princesses
• no running water
• toilets on one floor only
• free pizza at 3
• embroidered sweater
• Lydia Davis
• internet and phone near Union
• no Charlie Brown
• sad Halloween
• no candy
• purpley dress with flowers
• two bottles cranberry juice
• cold in the hallway
• (a person who shall remain nameless here)
• "animation tidbits"
• vet clinic still open (please knock)
• food thrown out on Morton Williams sidewalk (bags of fruit, cartons of juice...)
• tubs of melting ice cream
• "down to my last glass of lukewarm juice"
• dancing traffic directing NYPD
• Doc Marten blisters
• blue bathing suit bottoms
• "welcome to the insane asylum"
• Bubble Blaster
• phone in toilet

Fin.