Smoke gets in your eyes

[pjthompson]

Quote of the day:

"I awoke this morning and attacked my play with a vengeance. A stabbing need to create something out of this madness. To stand art up in the face of it. Maybe it's a redemptive act. Maybe it's this belief in the power of art to construct, to inform us of the nobility of our humanity, to bring us closer to our kinship with the gods, and, armed and armored thus, through will and daring, bring about an increase in our humanity."

—August Wilson

Moving news of the day: Yes, stacking all my possessions into a huge pile, dousing it with gasoline, and lighting it does sound like a good idea. Why do you ask?

One week from today.

Weirdness of the month: My neighbor likes to smoke on her balcony late at night. Sometimes when I'm trying to sleep, I smell it wafting through my bathroom window and clear on into the bedroom. Once when I had a cold it even woke me up coughing.

One night about a month ago, I sat on the edge of the bed reading just before turning out the light for the night when all of a sudden the room filled with the scent of sweet pipe tobacco—so strong it was as if someone sat next to me puffing away. At first I thought my neighbor had someone over who was a pipe smoker. But I peeked out the window and didn't see anyone. My next thought: "Who do I know who's dead who used to smoke a pipe?" My thought after that was, "Oh Christ! X's father just saw me naked!" Which made me somewhat queasy.

I live in a strange little universe.

It wasn't until later that I realized the smoke could have been cannabis, and perhaps came from one of the balconies above me (a fairly likely scenario). But why be logical when it's so much more fun to go to the extreme edge of imagination right off the bat?

Of course, if it was cannabis and it wasn't someone living nearby, I have plenty of dead friends who might have seen me naked that night. Some who have seen me in that state before, some not. Not sure how I feel about that.

But I will certainly be glad not to smell that woman's gacky cigarette smoke when I'm trying to sleep at night.

Comments

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

I'd like to make a comment on this whole thing, but it's really hard to get past that nekkid part... ;-)

[pjthompson]

Hehehe.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

*lol*

[pjthompson]

:-)

[handworn.livejournal.com]

Hung out with my blacksmith friend again last night, who smokes both (not at the same time). I assure you, pot and pipe tobacco smell nothing alike.

[pjthompson]

I have smelled both, though admittedly it's been a few years. There is a sweet, spicy pipe tobacco blend I remember from the misty ages of my youth that did have a similar scent, but I can't remember the name of it. (I do seem to remember that it was cheap stuff.) And of course I thought of that first, rather than the more likely explanation.