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Dec. 22nd, 2024 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brandywine28A Christmas blessing! Or...maybe a Christmas humbling?
OK, so. The building across from mine has construction scaffolding erected. It's been up since late July, and what a coincidence! I've also been in a bad mood since late July! I don't think it'd annoy me so much if the workman's platform wasn't exactly at my eye level -- like, when I look out the window, it's just RIGHT THERE. IN MY FACE. HELLO, FACE. It's very distracting. If it were a story higher, or a story lower...well, who am I kidding? I'd still find something to complain about. Nevertheless!
I know exactly what the workers snacked on the day they put it up, and I know that because it's still up there. Three soda cans, two red, one green, something shiny and flat that I think is probably an empty chip bag and a white plastic gallon-size jug -- the kind that usually contains milk, but I hope to God did not. Still there, since late July. Directly across from my bedroom window and I know many of you are thinking this isn't that big a deal. You may even be right! But when you open your eyes every morning and the first thing you see is a big pile of trash and you close them at night on a big pile of trash and the trash is omnipresent and it's slowly turning into a metaphor for the state of your entire existence -- you start to fixate.
So we had a pretty mild fall here. Next to no rain. It was eighty degrees on Halloween day! Only in the last couple of weeks have we had any kind of weather weather. And a few days ago I woke up, took a second to brace myself -- as has become my custom, totally fine, very normal -- opened my eyes, and! It was gone! All of it! I guess the wind knocked it all down onto the street overnight, and I'm telling you, I was overjoyed. I may have squealed. I may have clapped.
And then I realized the high point of my year so far has involved the wind moving some trash around and that -- that was pretty sobering. Pretty humbling.
And yet! The joy remains! So yeah, let's just call it a Christmas blessing. :)
OK, so. The building across from mine has construction scaffolding erected. It's been up since late July, and what a coincidence! I've also been in a bad mood since late July! I don't think it'd annoy me so much if the workman's platform wasn't exactly at my eye level -- like, when I look out the window, it's just RIGHT THERE. IN MY FACE. HELLO, FACE. It's very distracting. If it were a story higher, or a story lower...well, who am I kidding? I'd still find something to complain about. Nevertheless!
I know exactly what the workers snacked on the day they put it up, and I know that because it's still up there. Three soda cans, two red, one green, something shiny and flat that I think is probably an empty chip bag and a white plastic gallon-size jug -- the kind that usually contains milk, but I hope to God did not. Still there, since late July. Directly across from my bedroom window and I know many of you are thinking this isn't that big a deal. You may even be right! But when you open your eyes every morning and the first thing you see is a big pile of trash and you close them at night on a big pile of trash and the trash is omnipresent and it's slowly turning into a metaphor for the state of your entire existence -- you start to fixate.
So we had a pretty mild fall here. Next to no rain. It was eighty degrees on Halloween day! Only in the last couple of weeks have we had any kind of weather weather. And a few days ago I woke up, took a second to brace myself -- as has become my custom, totally fine, very normal -- opened my eyes, and! It was gone! All of it! I guess the wind knocked it all down onto the street overnight, and I'm telling you, I was overjoyed. I may have squealed. I may have clapped.
And then I realized the high point of my year so far has involved the wind moving some trash around and that -- that was pretty sobering. Pretty humbling.
And yet! The joy remains! So yeah, let's just call it a Christmas blessing. :)
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Date: 2024-12-24 07:49 pm (UTC)It sucks it sat up there for so long. That's really kind of disturbing! But I'm glad it's gone. Hopefully, it eventually made its way into the trash. I hope your view remains clean and trash-free in the future!