Call me Friday. No I mean call me on Friday. Iâll be ready for anything. Fridayâs the only day worth a goddamn. Youâve got Friday night and 2 days ahead of you. The possibilities are limitless. Itâs like when you were in school; at the beginning of a semesterâŚwell you remember all the good things you were going to accomplish. Go to class regularly, do your reading assignments all that shit. Uhuh, by Sunday (equals end of semester) all youâve got, if youâre lucky, is a hangover.
Enough philosophizing, Friday doesnât need any help or analysis, it is pure, it stands alone, a beacon of hope at the end of a shitty week. There I go again. Ok, I unlock the door. The key works the very first time. An omen of good things to come. At the kitchen counter my fingers around the new bottle of tonic water. It is amazing how plastic can be so rigid. I mean all it has in it is liquid, a nice soft substance and air, so where does the rigidity come from? Yeah I know it has to do with non-compressibility of liquids and all that crap, but I choose to ignore those issues and be amazed. I twist the cap holding the bottle over the sink. The gas releases, the paper label wrinkles, the bottle relaxes as if exhaling from the tension of keeping all that wonderful liquid fresh and fizzy for me.
Like Friday, there are few things as good as the right glass. I like the ones with a heavy base; the kind that wouldnât tip if you drop kicked it. Thin walls though, like crystal. I like rum in them, dark, and a slice of lemon. Buying a good lemon is harder than people realize. You want one with a relatively thin skin, theyâre juicier, which I believe are the ones with little nipples. Iâm still talking about lemons. So then the tonic and Iâm ready.
I only smoke of Fridays. On the way home I bought a pack of Marlboro lights in a box. I fish them out of my purse. I wonât bore you with a description of the pleasure I derive from opening a fresh pack of cigarettes. You get the picture.
The smell of fresh tobacco and the first cigarette, not just the first cigarette, but the first puff, on the other hand are; well yeah letâs just say special and get on with this.
My apartment is not that great, but it does have a nice balcony that overlooks the city. Iâm on the top floor so thereâs a reasonable amount of privacy and a pretty view at night especially when you canât see all the ugliness. The construction, the dirt that come with a growing city. Itâs really not a city; itâs a university thatâs eating a small town. Iâm not a student, but Iâm 23 so sometimes I pass as one. No one knows; I sit in on classes and go to the gym, I can fit in no problem.