last night in the midddle of the night i felt slightly down (and it’s a miracle that i could possibly be just SLIGHTLY DOWN in the middle of the night) because i was checking out this website that’s wildly popular. it’s just a woman writing stuff every day. but she has ads on her website and that’s how she earns a really good living. so i thought about how i’m primarily writing this for christine and mom (and finally now randy), and just a few other people.
but so that’s why this morning was so funny. i got in the elevator at the hospital and it was supposed to go up, but instead it went down. i was annoyed (but only slightly, becuase i wasn’t yet awake enough to be more than slightly anything), and it went all the way to the bottom floor. two people got on, looked like a father and (grown) daughter, and the man said to me “i read you every day.” being not quite awake i was startled, and thought maybe he’d read the column that i used to have in the paper, and so he hadn’t really been reading every day.
i said “oh, my blog?” and he said “i read you on the internet, every day.” his daughter looked shocked and said to him “you DO?” and he said, “yes, she used to write for the IT but they told her nobody was interested in reading anymore which isn’t true, and she’s also a comedian and had a one-woman show but i missed it.”
i was bowled over. he didn’t have time to say any more because we all got off the elevator, but this was such an unexpected nice thing to hear. so it’s NOT just christine, mom and randy…it’s also this guy from the elevator.
thanks, elevator man. you made my friday.
people i care about are suffering from seasonal affective disorder. how about this idea – the city buys HUGE HUGE lights for that and installs them all over the place, in restaurants and bars and the library and bowling alleys and other places people go, so everybody can just cheer up.
since the sun isn’t going to return.
and it’s a bummer when everybody around me is so sad.
because i’m feeling unaccountably chipper for such a gloomy gloomy day.
ok then,
friday grace.