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  • I spent the bulk of this work day holed up in the windows, painting and not talking to anyone. Confession: window days are my favorite. Solitude and silence are hard to come by at my place of business, so I take great pleasure in being the only human variable in these window-day projects. It's not that I don't like the people I work with; it's just that I don't have a tremendous lot in common with them. Even my better work relationships are based primarily on the repitition of quotes from co-beloved movies and tv shows. Thankfully, tomorrow is another window day, and the day after that will be a window day, too. No one will feign interest in my love life, academic progress, or the relative comfort of my shoes. People will occassionally wander outside for a smoke break, during which they will leer at me and my work through the windows, offering hypercritical commentary and asking where ever that super-cute dress came from, each of the other... "Target? Really?!? But it looks so expensive! No, I can't tell what she's doing, either"...but they'll think that I can't hear them through the glass, so I'll just pretend they're right. I'll answer their mimes with mimes. I'll try to whistle, oh-welling myself with the thought that, at least, it looks convincing. I am a silent movie star. I am my own private organist. I am "a lone reed...standing tall, waving bravely in the corrupt sands of commerce." That's a Greg Kinnear line from You've Got Mail. Its a talkie.

Thursday, 22 May 2008

  • Last night after dusk I sat on my front porch for a while. It was lovely outside; fireflies and dark blue sky and dog-and-cricket chatter... I tend to imagine that they're talking to each other, the dogs and the crickets, each group to the other, saying "you shut up," ... "no, you shut up"... the way restless girls at summer camp shush each other and giggle at night in their cabins ad infinitum, until the shushing and giggling becomes an interminable, indecipherable nightnoise. I just read something about porches, oddly enough... something Walker Percy wrote... a porch as a metaphor for southern religion... and maybe it was really something owed to G.K. Chesterton, and Percy was borrowing the imagery... Anyway, he was writing during the civil rights movement, referencing the stoic white Christians of the South, who sat on the "porch" of faith and enjoyed the appearance of ownership, and the altitude above passers-by, even though they'd never even been inside the house, and didn't know what it looked like... but last night in the dark blueness I thought more about porch accessories... I thought I should get one of those candles that wards off mosquitoes... that I should get a plant or two... and then Sean came over... went inside and informed me that something in my refrigerator didn't smell so good... I knew what it was... or what it had been; it had been soup at one time. But by last night, it was a substance that merely perched itself on the stoop of soupiness, masquerading as soup, watering soup's plants and patching soup's screen... So I carried it to the alley out back, and dumped it over the fence to the place of its final judgement.

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