Saturday, November 08, 2003 Aloha!
The mate left this evening on a mini-vacation of unspecified length, to of all places, Newport News, Virginia. The poor lamb thinks he's going to the beach, when in truth, he's lucky if he gets to the shipyards. He'll undoubtably be shanghaied by a gang of roughnecks and pressed into service on some sort of tramp steamer. The last time I visited that particular sliver of urban decay, I was not left with a favorable impression, but that story is too long and has been repeated too often for a blog post.
In any case, I will be mourning mate's absence by leaving cabinet doors open, leaving personal belongings on the coffee table, and wearing the shirt that I think makes me look like a member of a third-world bobsled team, but in a really sexy way, and mate thinks looks indie rock and pretentious.
The unkindest cut of all is this: just this week, we finally got season four of The Sopranos on DVD. Neither one of us has seen a second of season four, because A. we can't afford HBO B. even now that we got the fourth season, we've been holding out until we finished a season of a nother series we follow, which is set in space. Tonight, we watched the last episode we have of that series.
Now off mate goes, leaving me alone in the house but for the faithless cats, underemployed and bored, with no cable to speak of, staring longingly at the bright silver box of season four. Although I didn't promise not to start it without him, it seems like pretty low trick to do so.
On the plus side, this will mean all kinds of free time to work on my play novel. On the minus side, I don't do very well in situations with long, uniterrupted blocks of freetime.
Update on the trashy and parasitic neighbors: within a span of about ten hours, they came and rang our doorbell (which they know full well makes an extremely shrill and grating noise) and when we answered demanded first a ride and then an onion. We refused on both counts. Later, we told them to stop bothering us.
To me, this feels cruel, but I also kind of hate the neighbors, so either way...
posted by Frenz | 11/08/2003 01:32:00 AM
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