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July 19, 2007
How to Mess with My Head, If You Want
It's not hard to mess with my head. I mean, it's already pretty messed up to begin with, especially on days like today when I forget to take my brain pills.
You know I have a weird thing about dates, right? I have an astounding memory for dates (although I rarely know what the date is). Today, for instance, is the one-year anniversary of that big storm that knocked the fuck out of St. Louis last summer, a situation that I handled not well.
The fact that a cold front and storms rolled in today in a similar manner as they did one year ago this evening? That's not good for my head. Not at all.
Turning on my beloved History Channel this afternoon and seeing that today's Modern Marvels is about the Viet Cong tunnels, which was the subject of the book I was reading while exiled by the storm? That didn't do me much good, either. Not that it stopped me from watching it.
I was almost afraid to start dinner tonight, because we'd just finished eating dinner a year ago when the power went out, so if we eat dinner tonight then MY GOD, THE POWER'S GOING TO GO OUT FOR A WEEK!!!
I'm obviously not taking enough medication.
Posted by Robin at July 19, 2007 05:32 PM
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I'm staying out of Hampton Village altogether tonight, just in case. No lights-out Target for me! Do you know how few windows are in there? And no 7 days at the MIL, either!
Posted by: allison at July 19, 2007 07:20 PM
Hey, I nearly posted something similar today! I kept asking people at work, "Do you know what today is?" NO ONE REMEMBERED that the storm was last year today.
I too suffered from a mild anxiety attack when the storm rolled in...
Posted by: Carrie Freeman at July 19, 2007 07:43 PM
I knew what today was. (Okay, I checked my blog.) I can tell you what I was doing when the city went dark, too: listening to Marianne Faithfull's "Broken English." (Which isn't as cool listening to Bob Dylan's "Shelter From the Storm," like I was before a lesser power outage three years ago.)
All I can say is thank god for the library. As long as I've got somewhere to go that has AC and WiFi, I'm good.
Posted by: Kathy at July 19, 2007 08:00 PM
We, of course, waited for the rain to come down in sheets to leave Cooperella. I spent five minutes getting pounded by saucer sized drops while holding an umbrella that doubled as a lightning rod. You were right to leave when you did.
Posted by: Beqi at July 19, 2007 08:04 PM
Last year we shacked up my MIL out in tornado alley with my husband's grandfather who has alzheimers and had been kicked out of the nursing home due to lack of power. Yeah, that was fun. Three days of hell with air conditioning.
Posted by: Robin2 at July 20, 2007 08:13 AM
I cannot believe it's been a year since that storm. I have no sense of time at all.
Posted by: Katya at July 20, 2007 01:21 PM
What a difference a year makes, huh? God, if we could just send ourselves messages from the future. My sister is just like that with dates -- remembers them all. Me? I just remember what I wore.
Posted by: Marijean at July 21, 2007 08:23 PM
