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laughing at the sky
Tomorrow, we may be going to Paris but today is all about the grind. Today is a too-soggy morning and a flat gray sky. Today is trying to negotiate interest rates and pay bills. Today is weepy plants and demands to be quenched. Today is a hundred last-minute errands. Today I am hungry, anxious, nervous, stressed, and have a week and a half of work to complete in an impossible number of hours. Today is the anti-vacation.
You have to laugh. Really, you must laugh. Yesterday was all about me being mad at the rain, or more pertinently weather dot com, which failed to tell me that I would need an umbrella. Walking three midtown blocks to the subway, wholly unprotected, the rain spit from the sky and spilled down my nose and lips while I actually had the nerve to try to dodge these incursions. In one moment, the crowds were too thick I stood still in my dry clean only skirt and my dry clean only silk top and my dry clean only jacket and nylons and what may as well be dry clean only boots my new haircut, once perfectly styled from the night before, absorbing every drop of rain until I finally broke and started laughing at the sky, but mostly the absurdity of this dry clean only life in a city that was neither dry or ever clean.
Tomorrow we go to Paris.
Tomorrow we go to Paris.
Tomorrow we go to Paris.
I’ll be back in one week.
comments (15)
HAVE A GREAT TIME!
1 | C | December 10, 2004 11:10 AM
Bon voyage! (says the girl trying but not succeeding at squelching the extreme jealousy creeping into her voice)
2 | Rebecca | December 10, 2004 11:43 AM
Your're going to Pairs! Which one, Paris in Kentucky or the one in Missouri? :)
3 | michael | December 10, 2004 12:08 PM
Hee hee. Best to ask him, he's always up to SOMETHING.
Speaking of HIM, by the way, today I noticed that his old site, though obviously abandoned, had been taken over by a stranger! With bad decorating skills! And no handsome-handsome-ness! I'm sad this happened before he could save his archives somewhere. I always liked reading about that g-string diva chick. Sigh.
4 | deb | December 10, 2004 12:51 PM
have a great time!
5 | Daniella | December 10, 2004 04:10 PM
Y'all have fun...and remember. Canadian. If anyone asks, you're Canadian.
Oh...and if you get me a t-shirt, I wear an XL. Big shoulders. :-)
6 | Howard | December 10, 2004 05:14 PM
I had a dream last night that you and alex got engaged in Paris and then you blogged about ti from some internet cafe in france.
7 | jocelyn | December 12, 2004 07:10 PM
Bon Voyage!
8 | Dani | December 12, 2004 09:08 PM
Ooh la la! Quelle surprise pour moi! Je voudrais aller avec vous, mais je suis impoveree. (OK, that last word might not be French, but you get the picture. Hope to see you again one day, and wishing you tons of fun en France, mes cheries!)
9 | Esther | December 13, 2004 11:10 AM
Wifey thinks you might come home with a diamond... but we're just wildly speculating etc. At least come back with some strong booze
10 | michael | December 14, 2004 08:52 AM
mmm. i recommend dinner & dancing/drinking at The Duplex
11 | Saltation | December 15, 2004 06:04 PM
Make sure to try out the ice skating rink in the Eiffel Tower.
12 | Lindsay | December 16, 2004 06:30 AM
What are the odds Miss Smitten comes back with a rock on her finger?
13 | Mindwalker | December 17, 2004 02:24 PM
American morons like you ought to be prohibited from visiting Paris. You seem to think that the city is all about the Eifel Tower and museums.
Stay home in Akron and enjoy yourself.
14 | ronald | December 25, 2004 10:13 AM
One of the absolutely *coolest* things about having a website with open commenting is the inevitability of being insulted by someone who misspells both the Eiffel Tower and New York City.
Welcome, ronald.
15 | deb | December 25, 2004 11:10 PM