SoHo rooftops.
It is one of those miserable rainy days that is perfect for leaving and leaving behind. Due to a small comedy of errors including a power outage that reigned supreme over my alarm clock, I didn't come in until 11 today, having eggs with my cousins and listening to Marley read a section aloud of the House & Home section of the Times that sampled the troublesome for an 11-yr old words like chic, Bauhaus, and enscouced, it was about a performance artist trying to start the next Williamsburg in Arizona. Made my way in through the monsoon-like conditions of the Grand Central Subway station and recent construction that rendered the ceiling a sive for heavy rains and left puddles near the turnstiles. Rain the the City for me is awful and unbearable and makes all those things you have to do all that much more taxing and bothersome.
It's a good day for leaving. It's just too much of a pain in that "the bottoms of my jeans are wet and won't dry for hours" kind of way, too much of a pain to be nostalgic, just enough pain to get on the next bus and count down the miles between here and Hartford with a degree of satisfaction and near glee, but since it is the bus, i will hardly be gleeful. But just the same, I want to be home and can't wait until I am. I am sure I'll be gone by 4-ish and until then I'll amuse myself for the last time in this office, the last time in any forseeable future. I have written my thank you cards and I suppose a constructive thing to do could be to finish up and complete editing my Ron Brown journal responses, I am hungry for the second half of the stipend that comes with turning that in.
Lion King was fantastic. Pure and simple fantastic and amazing.
I guess the reason I called this SoHo roof tops is that outside of my third floor window onto Prince Street, I have the perfect view of a slightly shorter building nearby, another brick number with a ornate mantle-like cornice. A few minutes ago there was a youngish guy in a baseball player tshirt standing up there fiddling with a window or doing maintenance work - well, in the middle of a rainstorm, in the middle of the day, down below Houston, that's a nice image.
posted by lmjasinski at 10:57 AM
