November 9, 2005

bit of sunrise

I live above a Mediterranean store. It's making me love Arabs, their bulk olives, their fresh dates, guava juice, buying seasonal food by weight. Gold shops in Kuwait. Today was restful: Xavier came over on his lunch break (he works across the street), he brought us olives from downstairs and we made him pekoe tea and chicken soup. Then Jaxon went to work and I read some stories and added another eighty words to the one I handed in for workshop yesterday. I spent some time dancing around the apartment to Depeche. I had a gorgeous nap at six. My body is slowly reaching its equilibrium again. The past two weeks have been consumed with sleeplessness and moving, recovering a sense of place. To stay awake during this time of transition I think I drank enough coffee from our percolator to drown a large, beastly animal. Quite possibly an Ox, or my bloated and growling liver. Now things seem more settled and I have room to focus again, which is great because this apartment is fantastic, everything I wanted and more.

Posted by caroline at November 9, 2005 9:46 PM
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I can see it now, dancing away with cigarette and coffee in opposing hands under the greyish glow of light refracted past the neighbors above. Whom, I surmise, are now used to the sound of Depeche Mode blasting away the day.

Posted by: jaxon at November 9, 2005 11:22 PM

NOTHING MUST BE IN THE HANDS WHILE DANCING. DANCING MUCH CONSUME EVERY MUSCLE GROUP NO HOLING ON FOR DEAR LIFE. :)


The upstairs neighbour looks like a blond, over-sized umpa-lumpa. however that stupid creature is spelled.

Posted by: caroline at November 10, 2005 12:00 AM

ps,

she's a "normal person," who thinks people who cough are somehow "not normal people." stupid ugly bitch.

Posted by: caroline at November 10, 2005 12:01 AM

And yet she thinks us "the nice, normal people downstairs". Oh, how wrong her impression will be if hanging out the window to smoke and cough are her worries. Just wait until we start to hit the red wine.

Posted by: jaxon at November 10, 2005 2:18 AM

we really need to start shooting up in that courtyard. new mission.

Posted by: caroline at November 10, 2005 4:27 PM