For the past week I have been living as a nomad. On Martin Luther King Day, there was snow on the ground in Atlanta, so I thought it would be nice to take Mollie for a long winter's walk. We returned to find that my Atlanta had become Atlantis - the pipes in an upstairs unit had frozen and burst and a cascade of water was flooding my apartment. Fortunately, nothing valuable was lying on the floor, and I came home in time to sound the alarm, but the walls in my room had to be torn out, the floor is slated for demolition, and the apartment is now home to a dozen dehumidifying machines. The dehumidifiers create an wind-tunnel effect, so as I was packing my bags I had to keep chasing scarves and papers and other airborne items that got caught in the updrafts. I have been living in a succession of hotels and friends' apartments, and my landlord has made the peculiar offer of a house in the suburbs where I can live until the new floor is put in. Mollie is coping with this well, but I'm starting to feel a bit mental.
At the moment I am at my friend's apartment working on my lecture for tomorrow's class. The readings for this week include Susan Sontag's essay on science fiction film entitled "The Imagination of Disaster." I feel that I am becoming an expert in this field of inquiry.
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Oh my goodness! That's terrible. But I have to confess that I did giggle at the image of you "chasing scarves and papers and other airborne items." I suppose I'd be surprised what items I have laying around that could get caught in an updraft should my home all of a sudden become a wind-tunnel.
Let me understand your situation in full, Atlanta (and this is just from news I read online) is in a serious drought and rationing of water has become important to the survival of the city and the aquarium.
Yet, your apartment has FLOODED. Does this mean the drought is just a perpetration of the Al Gore and his greenies? Or Have you stumbled upon a secret underground spring through which a freak of nature has sprung a geyser into your apartment? and if so, can you claim stake on this new resource and at all benefit ?
As well to save the sharks, please alert the aquarium!
If you need ANYTHING please let me know - you are in my prayers!
Allison, there will always be a bed for you at our place.
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