Seinfeld- A View on life

I have a very kind of Seinfeld life. It has a lot of somethings, but eventually, they all result in a lot of nothing. Over time, character builds and hilarity ensues.

For those of you who don’t know, I was in a car accident a month and half ago. Four cars, actually, rear-ended, a sort-of-almost-defying- physics on a rain-slicked Texan highway. This chain reaction was instigated by an irrational New York driver, at 50 mph as the highway split. In a swift kick of irony, I rear-ended my best friend. After many tears, shock, cops and seeing the car, my car, driven from Washington--> Texas completely obliterated, I climbed into her bruised and battered, ’03 Ford Focus, the car that I rear-ended.

We stopped at a gas station so I could ice my wrist, the only injury I received, with frozen popsicles (ice wrist: then eat, of course this made sense!) And as a stubborn act of defiance, we drove Mr. Catfish, a Soul/Creole, and restaurant on the East side of un-gentrified Austin, as originally planned.

Silently, I ate my fried catfish, red beans and rice. I stared at the fossilized form of an alligator head on the wall, and looked out the barred windows outside to see people hanging out under the tree at the vacant lot next door. I realized, that if there is a God, and he/she/it exists, and they wanted me to be dead, I would be. I stared down at my now swollen wrist, and realized the cuts resemble a deep suicide attempt.

Since then, I have fallen in love with my bike, Penny Lane. I have joined a non-profit board with Austin Poetry Society, been accepted to amazing graduate schools, received scholarships and found time to take photos with my awesome garage sale find, a $5.00 accidental-light leak 35m camera. And, most importantly, I have learned the value and freedom of individual movement that a car brings.

Penny Lane <3

Like the previous post before, to me, there is nothing more freeing than the transitory time between one point and another, where you are not bound to obligation. And, like a Seinfeld episode, it is going this post is going to end abruptly and without a concise resolution. The following episode includes: A thick accented Ukrainian, the internet, Better Business Bureau and Kmart.


Blogs to come:
-Gentrification and marginalization of minorities, or How Everyone and Their Mom is Moving to Austin, Texas.