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Monthly Archives: February 2006

One Update and One Correction

Sunday, February 12, 2006

The update: No suspension of disbelief (or, rather, belief) was achieved.
Somehow, I was back again at Loomis and 15 years old. I don’t know that I’ve aged a day since then, or even long before then, in terms of my fears and incapacities.
The correction: I was wrong. Walking through it until a half inch [...]

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Slush from the Sky

Saturday, February 11, 2006

When the rain turns to snow–even damp snow, even snow that’s barely removed from rain and melts right when it lands on your jacket, if it was ever frozen at all–the umbrellas close. No reason explains this. The temperature is too wam for the snow, if snow, to remain snow. The streets and sidewalks are [...]

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Wow, they weren’t kidding

Saturday, February 11, 2006

The past hour was spent reading a series of recipes for cooking meth. The process, depending on the precursors, is actually quite complicated and (seemingly) tedious. It is some measure of the drug’s effect and addictiveness (I suppose) that so many are willing, eager, to go through all those steps.
One thing that the recipes [...]

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Youth in Asia

Friday, February 10, 2006

My iPod has been limping along these past few weeks. It lasts for 45 minutes, an hour, and then suddenly it dies, usually right when I’m at the beginning of some tedious Metro trip or better yet, standing the station staring at the sign that says it’ll be 15 minutes before an empty train roars [...]

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Bus Blinders

Friday, February 10, 2006

On the Metro yesterday, I sat in the front row by a door, reading a case on my laptop, plastic-flanged buds planted firmly in ears. The train stopped, and someone got on and someone got off. The seat next to mine was empty and then it was filled.
My seat-mate had very nice hair. Thick [...]

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