Jay Lake: Writer

[cancer] The brain, she fades oddly

Drove downtown today to have lunch with and Barry the Graphic Novelist. Lunch was very nice, with good company and good conversation. We talked politics, publishing, culture and food. I had fun.

The drive there and back, however, was a bit challenging. On the way there, the drawbridges were all up. I wound up on the Morrison Bridge, which Had Issues coming back down, the kind of issues that involve men in hard hats. Coming back out of lunch, I could not find my car in the parking garage.

I’ve never in my life gotten lost in a parking garage.

As it happens, this particular garage is built as a squared-off spiral with elevators at each corner. I parked on 8, went down to lunch, then came back up to 8 on a different elevator. Except it let me out on a different floor. Because, of course, delimiting floors on a spiral is rather arbitrary. Think about it for a second — took me fifteen minutes, plus a panicked phone call to , to figure everything out.

Oi. And this is a good week.

Teach me to hang around in parking garages.

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Posted: 7:15 pm Tue March 09 2010 |

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