22 April 2000 ~ More ghetto violence and a big package...

Shortly after finishing my last entry, there was another gunshot, a car accident, and a herd of police officers scrounging through my yard looking for shell casings.

I'm SO not kidding.

I worked ten hours today. I'm fucking exhausted. But I'll tell you a little story that I thought of the other day... True story:

I was working in the post office in Santa Fe at the time. And one night, I went to see a one-act in the theater building. It was free and I had nothing better to do, and incidentally, it was one of the best pieces of theater I've ever seen. Anyway, there were two actors in the one-act, and during the entire show, they were both in various stages of undress. And at one point, one of the actors in supposed to step out of a bed, and, in a split second, pull a pair of tighty-whiteys on so that the audience doesn't see anything.

Only... he didn't time it correctly. The audience saw everything there was to see. Nobody laughed and there was no gasp or anything, but everybody kind of exchanged one big group-glance...

The next day in the post office, the actor, whose name was Harrison if I remember correctly, got a box from his family.

(Are you seeing where this is going?)

I yelled, "Harrison!" He turned around. I yelled, "You have a HUGE package!" Now, that wouldn't have been all that bad, because I WAS standing in the post office and people were USED to me talking about huge packages and watching me carry around film cannisters and other weird stuff that got delivered... However, THEN, I took it upon myself to realize what I'd said, think briefly of the night before, and seeing all Harrison had to offer, and then giggle and stutter and blush for about ten minutes. EVERYBODY was laughing at me...

Okay, that's my story for the night. Off to take a long bath and put together my housemates' Easter baskets...

Love,
~Helena*

"My dick IS bigger than your dick..." --"The Wibbly Wobbly Wiggly Dance That Cleopatrer Did," by Terence McNally (and spoken by a kid named Harrison, Spring, 1999, College of Santa Fe...)