Monday, August 27, 2007

 

I have had a pleasant and useful 36 hours or so. I went to Ryan's yesterday and took a perfect bath. I commend the people who put the hot water pipes into his building. The water gets exactly as hot as you can stand, but no more. No sticking one toe in and jumping out and then trying to figure out how to dilute the too-hot water with just enough cold. And no not-hot-enough water to torment yourself with, so you sit there in the lukewarm tub gradually being poisoned with hate. It was very hot, and because I brought a giant bath bomb with me, it was also rose-scented. Boom!

I drank one of the homebrews (number 25...it was very good) and read a book and visited Ryan's bedroom to look at the weird mobile of metal mosquitos I noticed earlier. Spellcheck wants me to spell "mosquitos" with an "e" but I am not going to because you would not do so in Spanish and all mosquitos are Spanish. To them, all of us are just tapas on the hoof.

I had a productive day at work, with semi-interesting work that I was allowed to perform without interruptions. I cleaned my office. They fixed my AC. I got a very nice lunch and finished re-reading Howl's Moving Castle, which I started in the tub yesterday. Then I walked toward Dupont Circle, got an empanada at Julia's, ice-cream at Larry's and walked over to 17th and across P street and over to 14th and then down to Rhode Island and then back over to 16th. Then I went to the Burlesque reading and visited with Flash and then walked back to Dupont, where a giant brass band was jamming on the pavement and forcing random passersby to take washboards and castanets and join in.

Now I am home and printing the very first finished copy of A2O. Yay!

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