amVorstadt...mittwoch 24/31 Mai

(Vorstadt= Suburbia)


faucets dry th last 24 hours...after a week of low- into mid-90's heat plus dewpoint & humidity factors...
arghh...better start getting used to it...
as if on cue, just heard a news bulletin on declarations by Carl Soderbergh, EPA's PR head, warning?
la isla is second only to Haiti in vulnerability to water resources crisis...
when I stroll out to dinner, Piccolo Posto is having a power outage after having replenished th water
in their cistern storage tank after running dry earlier in th day...
--so?I stroll on in th dark, with th half-empty bottle of?Jean-Luc Colombo's 100% old-vine Rousanne Saint-Peray?
I wanted to share with Piccolo Posto's owner Joe Rao;?around th half-assed, pedestrian-excluding
under- & over-passes in th ever & always (except now, after nine in th evening)
trafic-clogged Fort Buchanan intersection, to th Argentinian steak house, for some chicken & salad...


...a week and twenty-four hours add up to Donnerstag-- ThundersDay-- aching to live up to its name--
sultry air sinks sticky still to flatten us
beneath th familiar grey threat?
of veiled clouds...bearing down...like renewed abuse...


...so-- a second straight week I only managed three running days, & barely over?thirty struggling minutes?
each time at that...
can't sleep, then I can't wake up...Saturday morn I gulped down some coffee & rushed out to th gastroenterologist
(my cousin's husband) to finally share my abdominal sonogram & liver protocol tests--
shoulda phoned. office closed, out on vacation. so I continue to wonder how much of this
recurrent pain, dizzyness, fatigue & memory lapses is/are merely age & stress-- 'mental'--
& how much of it all science might finally, at some point, deem to be actually 'physical'...