But, Also, as a Foil

The weekend looked like this:

• Gorgeous Friday morning at the Greenmarket.
• Gleaming bright cacophony of sunlight.
• Spectacular lentil soup from Rainbow Falafel on 17th Street, only three bucks.
• Chewy Chocolate Sunflower cookie from Body & Soul.
• Chai Latte from Pret a Manger.
• New level of mortification due to desire for said froofy hot drink in disposable cup.
• Boiling hot bath with lavender and arnica.
• Flawless Bill Cunningham documentary on streaming Netflix while in said bath.
• Kitties sounding emergency alarm due to said bath going too far into their dinnertime.
• Eight hours of sleep.
• Busy, speedy Greenmarket on Saturday, with screaming fight across the aisle at 7:45am, ending in lots of name calling, particularly: “whore” and “asshole” and “dickhead.”
• Slow walk up Broadway, past new Spider Man film crew being screamed at by New Yorkers angry at the bright lights and sidewalk blockage.
• Feeling of solidarity.
• “Dark Solo Meal” at Hill Country Chicken: leg and thigh in classic recipe, side of broccoli salad, buttermilk biscuit with honey and butter, bigass black cherry soda.
• Even slower-walk up Broadway, then switching to 6th Avenue at 34th Street.
• Kissing DJ Executive Realness hello outside Town Hall.
• Melissa Ferrick’s opening set.
• The feeling that music can make you invincible.
• Ani Difranco from the 4th row.
• Re-realization that her guitar skills are, like, awesome.
• Ani plays “Way Tight” as per audience request and it’s the emotional high point of the evening.
• Melissa & Ani play “Overlap” as 2nd encore and it’s bonkers good.
• Way too long, almost unbearably bright Q T rain ride home to Ditmas Park with aching back and lots of life clarity.
• String of sad/hopeful/angry/self-loathing text messages from friend-going-through-breakup.
• 8 hours of sleep.
• 3,000 new words on novel #2.
• Visit with Hazel Louise!
• Surprise appearance by filmmaker-extraordinare, Cheryl Furjanic.
• Long nap.
• Car service to Ft. Greene park.
• Visit to Greenlight Bookstore.
• Dinner at No.7 Restaurant with 2nd-oldest friend Becky, and her husband Jeff.
• Broccoli tacos, Turkey & Goose meatloaf, seafood tortilla soup, vanilla pudding with miso bananas.
• Taxi cab home, in which the driver (possibly) comes out by announcing that: “My roommate misses me when I’m gone, and he feels safe with me, so…what are you going to do?”
• Laggy but still delicious episode of The Walking Dead.
• Peanut butter truffles.
• Bed.

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