Soaked.
I walked home from a work event in Prospect Heights tonight. I knew it was about to storm, but I walked anyway. It started to get windy, and as I approached the area where the Carlton Bridge used to be (it was taken out in anticipation of Atlantic Hellhole Yards), I noticed a scary brown cloud swirling toward me. The street was deserted, and I started to worry that maybe it was a tornado or something. Nope. Just crazy dust and dirt from the site below the bridge. As I walked east towards Vanderbilt, a woman in a cab pulled over to offer me a ride, because bad weather was so obviously coming. I thanked her profusely -- this is what Brooklyn is all about -- but continued on.
Garbage and street dirt swirled around me and clouded my eyes, and I made it almost all the way home before the rain kicked in.
It was a vicious rain. Generally, I enjoy a good walk in the rain. But this rain was cold and hard and made me gasp for breath at the shock. It reminded me of being 18 years old and getting caught in a rainstorm with my first love on our way to the Bursar's office one fall afternoon after class, and even though I was wearing a raincoat with a hood, I pulled the hood down and enjoyed getting soaked. That was not this kind of rain. I had to wring my dress out when I got inside. Still, I'm glad I walked.
My new job isn't turning out to be all I hoped it would be. Every office is riddled with its own problems, but this place is unique.
I desperately need to change the colors on this site. Argh.
Also, I realized, while I was at my work event, that I forgot to move my car. "Fuckity fuck fuck fuck!" I thought. I called Marc, who didn't answer, and then Kath, to ask her to see if I had been towed. She informed me that it was actually some obscure Jewish holiday and that opposite side of the street parking was canceled for today. Que suerte!!! Of course, it was raining too hard when I got home for me to verify that it was still on the street.
One more thing. This is the funniest You Tube video I think I have ever seen. Please watch all the way through for the choreography. And I use that term very loosely.
Garbage and street dirt swirled around me and clouded my eyes, and I made it almost all the way home before the rain kicked in.
It was a vicious rain. Generally, I enjoy a good walk in the rain. But this rain was cold and hard and made me gasp for breath at the shock. It reminded me of being 18 years old and getting caught in a rainstorm with my first love on our way to the Bursar's office one fall afternoon after class, and even though I was wearing a raincoat with a hood, I pulled the hood down and enjoyed getting soaked. That was not this kind of rain. I had to wring my dress out when I got inside. Still, I'm glad I walked.
My new job isn't turning out to be all I hoped it would be. Every office is riddled with its own problems, but this place is unique.
I desperately need to change the colors on this site. Argh.
Also, I realized, while I was at my work event, that I forgot to move my car. "Fuckity fuck fuck fuck!" I thought. I called Marc, who didn't answer, and then Kath, to ask her to see if I had been towed. She informed me that it was actually some obscure Jewish holiday and that opposite side of the street parking was canceled for today. Que suerte!!! Of course, it was raining too hard when I got home for me to verify that it was still on the street.
One more thing. This is the funniest You Tube video I think I have ever seen. Please watch all the way through for the choreography. And I use that term very loosely.
Labels: deep thoughts, nyc, pop culture
posted by Lesterhead @ 6/10/2008 09:54:00 PM
2 Comments:
At 6/12/2008 06:13:00 PM,
Jeany Heller said…
not an obscure jewish holiday -- a very important jewish holiday. My rabbi calls it the most ignored major jewish holiday. I enjoyed observing it. That storm was scary -- all my windows were open and the force of the wind blew everything inside all over the place and my dogs were pretty bewildered by it.
At 6/15/2008 08:27:00 PM,
Kath said…
Sorry you got caught in that storm. But at least you had this video to cheer you up. She can't play the horn, and she can't dance, but she does a pretty mean impression of Princess Leia.
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