November 04, 2003

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On Friday, several things conspired against me:

  1. The water went out in our building. There was a water main break somewhere, so we had no water at all.

  2. Due to a subway fire, the subway stop nearest to our apartment was closed ALL WEEKEND LONG (more on this later).

  3. As I walked two skeevy blocks to the next nearest subway station, a crazy man who was already mumbling and crazy decided to shout at me because I’m white, and apparently I look like a hippy, and, he told me I should “go back to the Village,” which is where I was going, because I work there. At that moment I wished nothing more than to still live in the Village, and I vaguely wondered how the man knew I had once lived there.

  4. When I got to work, the screening was cancelled, so there was no free food.

  5. There were four Halloween parties I wanted to go to: Abigail’s, Zoya’s, Eugene’s, and Tori’s. Because Tori’s party also included a slumber party and a Call of Cthulhu game, I picked that one. This was the wrong choice, since it negated all other parties by being in New Jersey – Abigail’s was in Brooklyn somewhere, Eugene’s deep in Queens, and Zoya’s didn’t start until 10pm. (It also negated the sci-fi club party on Saturday.)

  6. I assumed we were playing D&D on Sunday because of Adan’s new work schedule. This turned out to be incorrect. So I had to cancel out of D&D.

  7. I lugged all my crap to work for the overnight stay at Tori’s, so I wouldn’t have to go back home in case the subway was still broke. But N. forgot his CoC character sheet, so we went home anyway.

  8. The subway was still broke. N. and I waited for a bus that never came. This step also involved some fighting and finally taking a cab.

  9. When we got to the apartment, N. couldn’t find the character sheet, because it was actually in New Jersey. (At this point I laid on the floor of the apartment face-down for a while.)

  10. Meanwhile, the Employeress called and asked if I could work on Saturday – event number one millionth Tori’s party negated.

  11. Finally, just when the game of CoC on Saturday was getting really good, we had to leave to catch a bus so my roommate could catch a plane the next day.

  12. I played too long and we missed the bus, which was early, and had to wait a full hour for the next bus.

Some good things did happen, like I got to eat a some free candy and nice Halloween cookies. I also got to see the end of the TV show Neverwhere on DVD.

Posted by erin at November 4, 2003 06:21 PM

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November 5, 2003 12:53 PM, Eugene said:

Actually, the party I invited you to was really my girlfriend's party, who lives pretty close to the Columbia campus. I'm sorry if you thought it was in Queens, but I guess that didn't really factor into your decision anyway.

November 5, 2003 01:26 PM, Erin said:

Sorry about that, Eugene.

It was an epic struggle getting uptown on Friday night, I don't think we would have made it there anyhow.

November 5, 2003 04:48 PM, N. said:

Truly.

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