| the day is triumphant |
[20 Sep 2003|01:41pm] |
Today was really odd. It started with the hurricane winds coming through my window... while that was going on, I was dreaming of having a dream while having anightmare.... or something. brb, gotta get water for greentea.... back. So where was I? well first off let me start with the fact that I realize I do my entries like Doogie Howser, I just write as it is fed out of my edit, I don't care to edit because this thing is suppose to jog down my thoughts. OK, so I took my bed, I was in Long Beach and I put my bed in a parking spot on the street and went to sleep, I wanted fresh air or something. I wake up in the day and the bagel store I parked my bed in front of is opening up and the part-timers are upset they're working on a weekend but puzzled and amused at me sleeping in ym bed on the street. I wake up scratch my head, yawn and go to the house... but it wasn't the house (you know the way it works). It's night time I'm supposedly staying with 3 people and I have to share a bed with someone. it's storming(obviously the scenario ahs changed dramatically and I don't know how, but it seemed smooth). I go to sleep and i'm having a nightmare! This dude was trying to suffocate me to death in my nightmare inside of my dream. I couldn't raise my hands strongly enough because they had JUST woken up so i'm just pawwing at the guys face and he is wearing a mask. not the traditional Friday the 13th hockey mask but Jason Voorhee's is actual face. and not the mild one in 2 and 3 but the really gross one in part four with Corey Feldman. And I'm slowly pulling it off and it's just sliding in front of his head blocking his vision but not preventing him from his task and I wake up SCREAMING in my dream. The person I'm sleeping next too wakes up and tells me to go to bed, I'm covered in sweat. The pudgy bald guy comes into the room with a bat dressed ina t-shirt and yellowish boxers. He tells me to try taking it outside. So all of a sudden I climb out the window and it's no longer a house but an apartment buildings fire escape. They're is a helicopter spotlight on me screaming as if I'm a criminal and sayign some spooky things, I'm creeped out and trying to explain my story but I can't talk as if I've just woken up, so I can't tell them that i'm not the monster. and just as i'm realizing this, I notice a guy jumping to the first floor of the fire escape and coming up and at me fast and it's the dude that just tried to kill me! I know it's him, even though he is now wearing a blac hoodie jacket and he doesn't have the mask and I can't see his face, but I know it's this mysterious guy. I yell at myself in my mind telling me to gather up all my energy and scream so loud that it has to change something. So i start screaming on the wet, rainy dark fire escape in the spotlight while this guy is just about to reach me and ... poof! I wake up for real. I'm scared shitless to go back to sleep, it's the absolute worst dream I EVER had. I was sweaty and hot and the freezing breeze is on my back and moving the curtains in my living room, all the lights are out and it's so silent except for the violent howls of wind outside. So I check the time and it's like 5AM. So I never get back to sleep but I toss and turn for a long time. My mom comes and gets me up because I promised her I'd help today. So Ihop out of bed and we go to get grandpa so he can do his stuff. His landlord has been fucking with his head and he has some medical stuff he needs to get done. My mom needed me because grandpa needs a guide and parking at the locations we have to go to is a bitch. So she parks and I walk grandpa into Social security. Mom said don't say a word to jsut look out for him. But they asked what he needed and well, he's a spanish immigrant who speaks english very well, but old people love to go into detail and you can't do that with the government or hospitals because the get frustrated and don't want t help you or make you wait longer. So I open my mouth and try to resolve what he needs. He shows me a paper and I let him tell me the long story and I pretend to listen as I read the document, ok he needs an official letter stating such and such. Our number gets called immediately and S.S. is crowded as hell but we were called immediately because I "talked" to the security guard and he told me what I should do...you see, you don't get a story you just sympathise with them and make them laugh, the point is to make them seem like a friend but have them forget about you as soon as you leave; this informs them you just want to be in and out and not deal with anything. So we get called up and grandpa starts talking and I take charge and I tell him that they don't need that and so on...it seemed kinda rude because it was the first time I took charge with him, but it was for his benefit, he doesn't need stress or to stand their long when he is as old as he is. So I feed the lady 2 sentences and it's done...and as soon as I'm tellign grandpa to elts go... he starts telling his story, it's so funny and cute. Because I now realize that ALL old people do the same thing, completeing another analysis for me. they don't mean harm they jsut want everyone to hear and sympathize, but I did that for the workers of S.S. so me and grandpa can work quickly. So we come out and mom is shocked. So then it's out to Fordham.... We pull up to Montefiore hospital and I must say... nice lobby. again, in and out and that room was soooo packed it was unbelieveable, but i'm glad it was quick, all the crying babies and the stench...and I was able to discuss the situation with a nurse and she told me how to make it even easier for grandpa. So that was done and improved. Another shocker for mom. People underestimate my attitude, when I have a goal, I meet it, and if you think i can't do it or i won't understand... then you have no idea who I am. So i'm looking at Fordham university across the street and it looked like a campus catalog for ANY school you'd find in Delaware or Rhode Island and I'm just like, " I lived in the bronx for so long and I never saw anything so nice and well kept." Ok so done with hospital trip, done with SS, now off to his appointment at the veterans hospital....man that SUCKED. Appointment was at 11:45 and thank god I spoke up because we'd have been late,a nd because of my intervention we got there at 11:15. Despite being early, and his appointment being at 11:45 we were not seen until 1:30!!!! Now there is nothing I can do with this, this is a different situation, and you can't rush lazy doctors. because yto them it's like..."Well i still get paid" or " I have to eat or else i can't help the patients" or "We can just pencil them inf or another time, they're not seriously injured"...unfortunately thats the sad truth, growing up in and around hospitals this is what I learned(That and a few MacGuyver tricks). So we see them and afterwards we have lunch and I had a chef's salad. I tried a McGriddles for breakfast and I must say, they totally ripped off my dad's breakfast burrito except made it into a burger format. But it's so good. grnadpa gave me 25 bucks which I had to break for some more folders for the sponsor packages. We drop off grandpa and we head home and my mom thanked me for coming , she showed me where she got stuck in traffic when the whole 9-11 thing happened. I asked to go to Bestbuy to check out stoves for the house, they only carry ONE type of electric stove, lame. Doesn't matter ebcause I seriously dislike bestbuy anyway because of their staffing policy...but thats another story. So we stop by Officemax, I get my folders. I get home and as quick as possible I put together two sponsor packages and run to the post office..I had ten minutes to get there and get these things mailed... I've been delayign forever and I can't miss this oppurtunity. and I made it, I was so happy. it cost 1.06 per package though :(. I had it covered, thanks grandpa!:) So i get home and I pass out ebcause I went to bed at 3:30 and woke at 5 as I mentioned. I woke up and was happy to not be disturbed by the phone. I only slept for about 2 hours. oh yeah I fixed my account with the bank...and mom needs to borrow some cash for the rent. I should be the great son with a great job covering the rent for her without "loaning". Anywho, I turn on the news only to find out... DUH DUH DUH.... There was a fucking shoot-out outside on Jerome ave int he bronx only 15 minutes before me, mom and grandpa got there! thank god I told them ," I'm not doing shit until you feed me!" and my mom was like,"oh really?" and I said,"hell, yeah, you wake up and want me to help you, you have to feed me"... that 20 minutes I wasted to get food... probably saved our lives. 3 ppl were hit or something. A former security guard from like 2 years ago strolls in like he is on duty and has a shootout with a officer and took out some people in the bulding me and grandpa had to go to and think three people were hurt or killed or soemthing, and thats not including the dick who shot up the place. so, presenting a thanks to my stomach is very much in order. Thank you Tummy. Ugh...ok what else...So I went to walk to breathe and it felt rewarding in some way. Even though I was already having a great day, this brought a smile as if I were having a bad day. This lady, Jessica who owns this really hyper Golden lab spoke to me. Turns out she is going to school for communications and she works at TGI Friday's. ----what, TJ just paged me... it's 2:30, hope he is ok---- ---turns out he is, I called him back, he was giving me movie reviews----- ok so where was I... oh yeah... So Jessica's situation was pretty impressive because whenever we see each other she is walking the dog or just realxing or she is going out with her boyfriend. I'm not into her if thats what you think i'm getting at, just that our aspirations are similar, except she is ahead of the game. She is going to school full-time, working fulltime but also seems to not be stressed and always smiling....and she has her own place with her boyfriend! Thats what me and felicia want to do or wanted to do... i dunno whats going on. So I went back upstairds, got bored and came back down, s I sat and thought about things and put things into perspective... it felt great, I went and got a vanilla pepsi from the gas stationa dn walked aroudn the blvd. Kids in queens are doing what i used to do with my friends in long island, it felt pleasing but at the same time verys addening because I don't have that anymore. now i'm on the outside of the groups :(. I walked back home and sat in front of the building, These two old women.... or middle aged(to be nice about it) were driving with their hazards on and had a flat tire. I was sayign to myself, they're dressed up and old women... they probably need help. SO i thought they were going to stop when they saw me but the didn't. but they had their hazards on so I knew that they knew they had a flat. I sat there and thought for about 10 seconds. I can help them... they need help... if they don't stop and change the tire they'll cause more dmaage and that'll make them pat more to fix it.... i got a jack if they don't have one..so then, I stopped thinking and I ran. I ran, and I ran and I ran and I always had them in my vision.... I was chasing a broken down car uphill, then downhill and around a corner.... i ran for five blocks without stopping (and now I know why I jog and not run). These ladies either didn't care, or didn't want help. I was determined to help them but I couldn't keep up. My intentions were good though. So I was by queens blvd. on the other side of 39th avenue and it was about midnight and I said to myself, "now what?" So I went job hunting- yes job hunting at midnight. I stopped by the holiday inn and they're looking for help, the lady was excited, I was sweaty and wearing a long sleeve shirt ad a backwards hat but I guess she saw throught hat. She wnats my resume and wants to me to work the desk between 11pm-7am on every other friday and saturday, and during the day on weekdays fulltime. this is good considering my bad sleeping schedule, but at the moment I have to focus on the Blaze of glory event, otherwise it's not going to happen. Once it's done I will hand in my resume. While I marched home with a smile I started rbainstorming, "This place is close, I won't need a car, i can pay my bills, they probably pay well, it is a hotel, Could i help ray and annette or any of my firends with this job? Would I be able to travel more now? Hey i can pay bills, Hey i can finally buy the apartment and do my dreams and stuff like me and felicia were planning, it'd be hard working nights, she'd hardly see me, but she wouldn't mind because I'm close inc ase of emergency and she'll she me every other minute of the day since she'll live there too, and she can go to school..." and it went on and on and on and on....::Singing:: "DOn't stop believing! Hodl on to that feeling! Streetlights, people-uh-uhoooooooooooo...don't stop...." ::enough singing:: Soi got home, got soemthing, i forget what and went to ray's house... had fun there, discussed some stuff played some Double Dragon II and then left and now I'm here. As for the bad things that re going on right now... i'm feeling kinda hesitant to talk about them because I don't know what to think.... that's all I'll say about that. But i'm on my way and I thought I told ya'll that I won't stop... thought I told you that I won't stop eh-eh eh-eh. ok i'm out. gotta do soem things tommorow. This is probably the longest post I ever made. l8er....
oh yeah I normally end with a quote, in my lettrs that is
"Well you ain't gotta like me, you're just mad, cuz i tell it how it is and you tell it how it might be"
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