There are so many people circulating in this wonderful, scummy city! Yet I am surprised that I will see someone on the train for the first time in a year and a half, that my favorite band from ten years ago isn’t my favorite band anymore, that a former classmate will grow out her hair and sit next to me at the Super Wash and there will be the jaunty dance of which one of us idiots will say hello first.

And then we just don’t. We sit next to each other and I sit up straight like a bird and I don’t say anything and I forget enough to slouch and then I remember and the sitting up straight/slide into slouch happens again.

Lately, I am considering presence in a room. The din that happens. You are a really loud person! I am a loud person. I had a sinus infection and now it is gone and now I can hear how loud/quiet I am more accurately.

Let’s see. It’s winter now. It snowed a couple days ago. I dumped a box of stuff on my floor and I own so much stuff! I fixed a stereo. I saw a friend I hadn’t seen in so long in the neighborhood I claim as where I grew up but I guess living somewhere for the first half of one’s life isn’t enough sometimes. It was nice to sit and say hello, to see how things are going.