...the ice melted, and there was joy among the people.

my driveway was all gritty. it was the best. last night stone face bought me yummy dinner and we had a face off with her roommates cat. the cat won but we put up a good fight. the roommates dog however keeps lunging for annie which is scary. it's big and drooly and it could take us no question. in the animal vein i had the weirdest dream last night. i dreamed that mrs. whatsit had little hamsters, and then they all turned into rats and gerbils, big ones, and it was scary. i think it was because mrs.w was running on her wheel. subconsious nonsense.
Annie has put me in charge of the valentine's day committee. i am filled with a sense of power, a surge of organizational strength, the dread that nothing is open in bar harbor. tricky.
in other news there was almost a laundry revolution last night. at the new laundrymat, which was not randomly closed, the change machine was broken. these burly men with exceptional amounts of laundry kept coming in, and the old would tell the new about the change machine being out of commission and there would be this look of hopeless misunderstanding and each one would say "the change machine doesn't work? but how am i gonna do my laundry?". and then they would see me feeding quarters into a machine and say "hey, where did you get those quarters?" like it was some feminine mystique secret that i had quarters, and i would say "uhh, the bank" and then they would say, oh yeah, i was at the bank today why didn't i get quarters. well gee sir i don't know.