tonight i go to sleep in anna’s bed, in a forest of bamboo. but first:

i’ve taken to watching the clouds recently, because a wise man once quoted some other wise man and said, “always look up, everything good is up.”… as it turns out, they were right. this morning on the bus i was doing just that, and i saw two rainbow clouds. and i don’t mean there were two clouds with a rainbow between them, i mean they were rainbow colored. the rest of the sky was scattered with clouds, but only two of them were colored. it was one of the strangest and most beautiful things i have ever seen. i sat and watched them out the window of the bus, desperately wishing that by some crazy and impossible fluke of physics jer could see the ottawa sky from wherever he happened to be in montreal… i stared for ten or so minutes before i couldn’t contain myself any longer and had to point it out to the old guy sitting in front of me. i really haven’t been that excited in a long long time…

the beginning of my day has been so strange, why shouldn’t the end follow suit? tonight my dad did something he hasn’t done in over ten years, and it resulted in him giving me cookies and saying, “one for you, an’ one for anna. anna spanana.”

also, one of my future co-workers said to me, with a heavy african accent and while motioning as if he were squeezing fruit of some kind, “i’ve never seen a white woman with that kind of backside!”