Kind of a slow day. I read the Sunday papers; getting the NYT is so cool because there's always something of interest about cultural memory and/or central Europe and/or WWI or II and/or landscape architecture/urban design.
Then I "purified" my car from the crackhead asshole car thieves. I still need to get it vaccuumed and the upholstery sanitized. CACTs apparently do not bathe - ick. And there are "supersized" mayo stains here and there from their drive-through doings. It's pretty sad - you steal a car and the most interesting thing you can think of to do is drive around with your friends, eat fast food, and drink vodka from the bottle.
Yesterday one of my friends drove me to the impound lot (fine class of people hangs THERE, lemme tell you) and I got driven out to my car and the retired cop (his partner had the same last name as I do) checked it out with me and I started it and went back in and paid for the tow and got driven back out to the car and drove it out. Kinda complicated, but it works. The waitlines must be unreal during street-sweeping and snow emergencies. I was probably there for an hour and I was like the second person in line.
B. is still wiped out. He sits in the recliner and aimlessly surfs through the channels and occasionally takes pain medicine or eats some jello or or a popsicle. He slept yesterday afternoon then was up most of the night then slept this morning. I'm trying to convince him to ride to the grocery store with me - the stairs are hard but I think he'll feel better if he gets out. I noticed in the hospital that he always felt better getting up and walking around, even if he didn't originally feel up to it.
Later I am gonna try to motivate to read through the several iterations of the trenches paper and then do a freewrite on what I'm trying to say about all of it. I'm hoping that will (finally) get me started on revisions. Less than one month until classes begin - then there will be no time for anything but schoolwork and the business of daily living.
Posted by otto0114 at August 8, 2004 03:50 PM