21 October 2008

somedays i think it'd feel better, if i tried harder

well. i almost burned our new house down. i lit some candles on my window sill. candles i have lit before in the same place. candles that were lit for an hour last night, behaving quite nicely while i was in the room (or is it lighted? i lighted some candles? hmm...). then i popped out of the room to use the bathroom and suddenly hear liz shouting, "becca you're room's on fire!!" great. awesome. of course it is.

the damage: a cardboard stenciled poster salvaged from camp nowhere gone, carried out of the house by shana, who knew this would happen someday...and the blinds on the middle window of my east-facing wall. burned. melted.

now i'm awake on the only day i have to sleep in because it's not overcast and drizzly for once and the sun is blaring through my naked window.

on my break yesterday i read an article in the newspaper about three girls dying in a house fire. then i read the article next to it about how they misspelled ralph nader's name "nadar" on the ballot in vancouver. oops. then i read the obituaries.

so. tired. sun is behind cloud. will try to sleep before work.

1 comment:

Malinda said...

Wow, that's crazy.

Meanwhile, i want to see pictures of your new house and stuff.