Thursday, August 9, 2007

Arrival: an intimation

Chicago is sticky and humid -- this I don't mind -- however I am also
almost broke.

Saw something you might like...but forgot what it was...this being
broke and just moved in thing isn't good for the old meal times...just
waiting until I can walk slowly a few blocks north to get a
dinnerlunch (I would call it lunchdinner, which chronologically is
more correct, but dinnerlunch sounds better in the ear, and since we
are only "calling" it something and what is that really, given the
slipperiness of the sign already, I might as well do better calling it
my candy bar--"Snickers, Keeps You Going").

There are very large rats here...A friend and I were sitting outside my
building the other day (she was about to leave and everything was
tense and sad already) and a large rat, unabashed with its ratness,
strolled around us until, in all ratness, opted for the alley way
and subsequent garbage for a rat treat, rather than our bare
calves.

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