apropos of anything

I know there was a speech yesterday. If you’ve only heard the sound bytes, you should read it or watch it for yourself. I thought it was honest and intelligent and awesome, but I don’t want to write about it just yet. All my words on this subject are so scattered the only way I could write about it right now is with abstract poetry.

Me, not a poet so much. In the meantime, let’s talk about other things! Scattered things, but in prose.

I made the world peace cookies today. They’re yummy as always, but I think I am still a little scared of overworking the batter. I didn’t make the logs as tightly as I should have, so the cookies crumbled a little upon slicing. I haphazardly patched them back together, but they still made the ugliest cookies I have ever seen in my life, and that includes the time I watched somebody make chewy cocoa cookies with non-fat yogurt. I’m going to have to serve these with the lights dimmed.

There was a tornado on Friday. It looked like this:

After it was done, my office building looked like this:

By Monday, they’d boarded up all the broken windows as well as the holes in the roof. My desk is on another side of the building, so I didn’t get affected at all (except for the still spottily functioning elevators). In those first few post-tornado hours Friday night, I worried mostly for the people who worked the overnight shift and partly for the building itself. If I am perfectly honest, I probably spend more time in that building than in any other, and as much as we joke about business continuity, I never thought I’d actually see it with its windows blown out.

We got several hours of wind and rain today (which probably barely made a dent in our overall water shortage, which means our esteemed state government may be continuing with its plans to annex Tennessee and eventually steal its Jack Daniels). The APD blocked off all the streets surrounding the affected buildings so pedestrians wouldn’t get knocked unconscious by falling windowpanes. And inside our building… well, they did this:

It was raining outside… and inside, too. I am ready for my office to be whole again now. Also for my front window to stop leaking. I wonder whether the HOA would actually make fixing it a priority if I followed Alicia’s suggestion and borrowed one of those tarps to tackily cover the leaky window.

If not, I suppose I always have ugly cookies as a consolation prize.