pieces of orion
twothirtyinthemorning and it’s still too hot to sleep, but when i look outside my window, i see orion for the first time this season. i’m supposed to feel a chill whenever orion comes back, yet here it is nearly november and it’s just hot and sweaty. i know this has happened before …
pat benatar
after arguing pointlessly and confusingly with the most unhelpful USAA car insurance agent i have ever had the misfortune to be assigned (“i can tell you right now, there’s no way your deductible will be waived in time even if you aren’t at fault”; “if Ryder’s insured doesn’t accept 100% blame, you’ll have to take them to small claims court to recoup the rental car fees; there’s nothing we will do about it” and additional doom and unfriendliness about how they might never contact their insured, thankyouverymuch for your help), i unexpectedly cheered myself up by taking home a pat benatar cd yesterday. it wasn’t enough to have seen her live (on september 10, 2001, speaking of yesterdays), but two years later as she’s still turning out new cds, i get to still take a new pat benatar cd home. i understand she’s got a ‘real’ new album out with an all new, different sound, however i took home more of the yesterday stuff yesterday: the double-cd/dvd called best shots. on the included dvd, you can see pat and her husband watching the old videos (back when music videos were so revolutionary!) along with you, and commenting about their hair and makeup and corny video stories the whole way through. it really brightened my day —– and i have no idea why. perhaps it’s because, along the lines of everything old is new again, i have a crush on pat benatar, again! maybe crushes on pat benatar make me happy. or probably, it’s the hair.
or maybe it’s because of leanne. she calls and she writes and she sleeps on only one side of the strange bed, as do i… leanne sends me greeting cards when she’s gone and makes silly rhymes. hmm. leanne pat benatar. hmm …
| pat benatar | leanne |
| small | small |
| prodigy at 12 | prodigy at 12 |
| makes silly rhymes | makes silly rhymes |
| occasional bad hair (in the eighties!) | occasional bad hair (in the eighties!) |
| tight jeans | tight jeans |
| flair for the dramatic | drama queen |
| makes moya happy | makes moya happy |
| makes millions | … makes moya happy |
that settles it. leanne is pat benatar. leanne, come home!
driven
my car and i have seen too much, these days. the poor thing was just sitting at the pump, and i had just swiped my card, when a very large ryder truck didn’t clear quite fully around my right front bumper. there was a large crunch, and a steady escape of air from the outside left rear tire of the giant truck as it sat mangled together with my bumper.
i think this is the second bumper mangling and potential new bumper this year for my car, and although it couldn’t have come at a worse time, with work too busy to eat, stretch, or sleep properly, i have some vague hope that the insurance and repair process will work servicably and without too much additional damage.
ironically, i think the new screw is, at least, still in place, though that turn indicator seems much lower and more twisted than it should be. let’s see how it drives to work later today…
Moya Watson 