My furniture arrived today. My apartment went from really really empty to really really full in about an hour. How exciting! It’s starting to shape up, slowly but surely. I don’t have nearly as much storage space as I used to and so I just don’t know what I’m gonna do with a lot of my stuff, but Chia-Jung’s got one hell of a basement and has offered me some space (at a low, low rate even.)
Amazing things seen today:
Thousands of birds, flying across Route 1. I stopped (in a parking lot) and watched them for a while. Wave after wave kept coming. And even as I watched, I knew my ability to describe the scene was just not adequate. Ah well. I saw it and you didn’t. Hah!
At the comic book store: a mid-30’s guy in a beige trenchcoat examining two or three copies of each “new this week” title. he would take a couple off the shelf and run his fingers down the spine, examining them for imperfections. at first, i thought he was just really really particular about the condition of his new books, but then i noticed that he wasn’t taking any books to purchase. just examining and then replacing. he even examined several copies of the new donald duck comic book. flabbergasting! was going to ask the store owner, but he seemed to be typical comic book store owner guy and not very talkative. it reminded me of the scene in Clerks where the guy is examining all the eggs, looking for the perfect dozen. very very creepy. never encountered anything like it before in all my years of comic shop visitation. I should email the comix revolution guy about it. In fact, I will! Ha ha!
The heroes of my novel are taking a trip to Chicago. Was gonna be Paris but then I realized I know nothing about that city, and so….