Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Yet I can sleep through the building next door burning down?

She dropped me off at my apartment at 7:30 in the morning. I was still half asleep trying to open the door. My bed was calling. I dropped my keys on the table and plugged my phone in to charge. I collapsed on top of the mattress and closed my eyes, trying to fall back asleep.

Outside my window were a number of impediments to this goal. A jackhammer tearing up the sidewalk. A cement saw sectioning the sidewalk for the jackhammer's next project. Some sort of gigantic hammer pounding on steel i-beams. And a construction worker driving a machine that APPARENTLY ONLY WORKS IN REVERSE for some unknown, goddamn, beep-beep-beep-beepy reason.

I made coffee and ate breakfast instead.

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