Day 23

I am mad and depressed. I am hurting not only because these high heeled shoes are scraping the skin off my heels but because I am in a tall building with an elevator. I want to quit. I want to quit. I want to quit. I feel better somewhere else. I think there is another way to do this.

Day 22

Train station in Manassas, Virginia. The last time I was here I was ON THE TRAIN? Taking a 26 hour train ride to Chicago. Needless to say I felt wistful and panicked and unsettled an remorseful.

Then I contemplated for a long time what it would be like to have children and a husband who don't share my values. Spending time with my family always makes me question my basic assumptions about life and choices I am afraid ill make.

Day 21

I think pictures speak louder than words on today's episode of pixadelphia. I am only slightly below the mason dixon line but life is pretty weird down in Northern Virginia. We all got ragingly drunk on Walmart wine and everyone told me to get a phd. I caught my first fish with a piece of hot dog and rode in a pickup truck???? Lol???????? I approached it with foreign coastie vigor and drank a bud light platinum and also a 6 layer salad.

Layer 1 iceberg lettuce
Layer 2 bacon
Layer 3 canned peas
Layer 4 mayonnaise ( sour cream???)
Layer 5 red onions
Layer 6 grated cheddar cheese from a bag.


Uhhh surprisingly it was FUCKING DELICIOUS.

Day 20

This is my train station !!!!! I love 52nd Street! It was my dream to live here and I made it reality. I am typically the only white person here.

Taking public transit makes me feel liberated and independent and empowered and connected to humanity. I love it. I take the train a lot , and I even take the bus!!! It just makes me super proud of myself because I was actually really afraid of it before. Not like afraid in the sense that I would get hurt, more like I couldn't predict where I could get on and off and I would be late and frustrated. Anyway, I use SEPTA all the time.

It was named the best transit system in America by the "transportation times" or something. Well, that's ridiculous BUT I can say that despite the derisive things everyone says about SEPTA, I can get everywhere on it and it moves a hell of a lot of people everyday.

Day 19

Here are my cats! They like to sit on my side table. They also like to run all over my bedroom and my body l at 4am and hiss at each other. It's annoying. I love them but they peed on my bed. Because I didn't sleep at my house for 3 nights. I learned my lesson.

Nothing else good happened to me today except I hung out with my favorite friend and I sat on his porch and talked about the Haitian revolution.

Day 18

The view from the wonderful Spring Garden St Station! It's on the highway. Something weird happens to me everyone here. Last time a mentally disabled woman borrowed my phone and used it to yell at someone.

Day 17

I went to the Philadelphia history museum! Of course I loved it???? It was free and small and I cried a lot inside. There was a whole room about how incarceration ruins families. And also just random philly words and quotes everywhere. And a huuuuuge map!!!!

Interestingly, the most commented on event during the last 4 decades was the MOVE bombing.