Meet and Greet
“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly one you can never have.”
Of course, this quote comes to me out of the blue while I accidentally run across some old missives from a loved one. The discovery of the missives felt like someone was throwing acid on me, the quote only served to make the pain more of a cliche. But Kierkegaard was really such a boor and so why should we even consider his philosophical cynical view of things.
On happier thoughts, the whole third floor of Building One at the American Can just congregated at the new neighbors’ apartment for happy hour. H was on a roll telling us about the people who couldn’t swim during Katrina, then he started on me about posting an enlarged photograph of my thigh bite from the evicted dogs – well T (German Shephard owner) who had left moments before, walked right back in when H was telling the story, and agh – I hope he didn’t hear because H was on a roll about it.
So M&K, the new neighbors, both from the Midwest, moved here post-Katrina and so there – see it’s not just us New Orleanians that are crazy enough to be here – people actually are moving here now, to live and work. M is in Media and K is in Film – so we’re happy to have them here with us at the Can.
H came back to my apartment for twist and cocktails – we learned tonight that H&J (across the hall from me) are moving into a house they are closing on in September – so sad. She is the exnun, with the three adopted children and her new old husband H – I love her to death. Anyway the other H had me going with tales of this woman he has been seeing – telling me how she has no life of her own and she has a son who is nuts – we were both doubled over in laughter.