Tonight a hooker ends up walking side-by-side with me and Louie on our way home.
“I like dogs. As long as they don’t bite”
“He won’t bite. He’d run away first,” I say. (I didn’t raise a dumb dog)
“I had a half-wolf once. Half huskie, half wolf. He had silver eyes,” she says.
“Did he howl?”
“Sometimes at a full moon. Of if he heard sirens. He thought they were singing.”
Suddenly she breaks rank with us, and steps into the path of a tall, middle-aged Asian man who’s looking very nervous. She wraps her arms around him. His arms hang at his side. She kisses him on the cheek and says “Merry Christmas”. He stands there, absolutely bewildered.
“Yeah,” she says, like an affirmation, then crosses the street, leaving him standing there as Louie and I continue.
For the second time this week there’s a cop car outside a building on my block, and again one of the cops has fastened one ring of his (her?) handcuffs to the front gate, preventing it from latching behind him. I figure it’s to give his back-up an easier entrance into the building.
In contrast to yesterday, today was all about LEAVE ME ALONE at work. And nobody seemed to pick up on it. I really need a vacation. But I’m digging reading everyone else’s blogs on company time, especially with the T1 connection. (Yes, I admit it, I use a 56k modem at home. I’m poor. Or at least, poor enough)
One of my three roommates is settling into the living room next to my room. There’s a set of pocket doors that separate the two rooms, which means little privacy (I’ve had sex here, like, maybe twice) and I’m not an extrovert. Which means a slight er, moderate resentment towards my housemates, which isn’t fair, because one of them pitied me enough after my break-up to give me and Louie a place to live. But………but…..but I’m not cut out to live with others, unless the other is Significant. Sorry, the whining will stop here.