Little later...
Tonight was okay, work-wise. I made double what I made last
night, but it's still $20 less than I made Monday night and
almost half what I made last Friday, so I guess there is no
point on my counting anymore. It's just too all over the place.
The people were good though. Very good vibe in there tonight.
I was excited because we were leaving work and a few of us
were going to get a drink somewhere else before we headed
home. It would be my first time hanging out with people from
work outside of that place, but there was a line at the bar
we were headed to, and it was too cold to wait in line. I'm
sorry, is there another way to say "too cold" because
there is no way that "too cold" in any way emphasizes
how fatally freezing it was out there tonight. I have a pretty
good sense of feeling the temperature out. What I mean is
that I make pretty accurate guesses at what temperature it
is. Maybe everyone can do that, but whatever then - so can
I. I can definitely tell when it's in the 20s instead of 30s.
I guessed when it was 17 degrees instead of 20. (I'm really
going by the "feels like" in weather.com rather
than the actual temperature.) Well, tonight after we walked
out of work, I swore that it was the coldest I've felt it
for as long as I can remember. Even two years ago when we
were in NYC, me and my castmates how to do our MTV photo shoot
outside and make it appear to be summer even though it was
one of the coldest days of winter. We had to stand by the
Brooklyn Bridge in tank tops and open-toe shoes while the
wind from the Hudson river whipped at our faces. I swore that
it was the coldest I had ever been, and that I should always
keep that in perspective for whenever I complained about it
being cold. Of course, it was ridiculously cold then, and
we were without coats. It was 15 degrees. Tonight may not
have been as bad because I was in my down jacket and not outside
for very long at all, but my hands felt like they were burning
almost instantly when it hit that air, and in the four minute
drive home, my hands had turned a dark red. Again, the coat
was keeping me alive, but I knew that it was colder than it
has been for as long as I can remember in Boston. I thought
it was maybe 4 degrees. I was wrong. It was -9. NEGATIVE NINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my fucking God, is it cold.
So, I have to say, tonight I feel very appreciative. Being
homeless would be impossible on a night like tonight. I was
lucky enough to come into my room, heat pumping into it so
hard that if I never left my room today, I wouldn't even know
that it was 50 degrees. I feel extremely fortunate today,
and I'm glad I'm not taking that for granted.
Very randomly, I would like to speak my mind about this girl
I really feel horrible for. My friend Emma has a friend named
Chanel who is about to graduate this May. Chanel's parents
had some sort of job transfer, and poor Chanel has to move
10 hours away just before she graduates with all her friends
she's had her whole life. She has a little brother about to
graduate 8th grade. She has been uprooted completely without
any consideration to the emotional, social, and academic setback
her parents have created for her. I feel absolutely furious
about it. What is supposed to happen now? She joins classes
already a month into the semester at a school in a city she
knows nothing about in a class full of people she's never
laid eyes on? That's bullshit. Chanel, I wish you the best
of luck. It'll be a little rough, but try to stay positive.
You haven't lost your friends, they're just an email, IM,
phone call, page, plane ticket away.
What else, what else...Well, I'm feeling exhausted about the
fact that I have to work 7 days in a row. Goddamn that can
be tiring. ugh, I don't want to talk about work.
Perfect Strangers is now in syndication. I thought that show
rocked, so I put it on and watched a few minutes, but it turned
out to be unbelievably horrible. But speaking of Balki Bartokomous,
there was some Broadway tribute on today with Carol Burnett,
two other people I don't know, and fucking Balki. His voice
was really amazing, as was his presence. I have to say, Second
Sight was funny in a horribly stupid way. It was on a few
weeks ago, and I chuckled out loud a few times.
I guess I really don't feel like talking. Sorry. I'll write
tomorrow at some point.
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