It Blows Here In Barrow
Monday, August 27th, 2007…but more about that later.
My home for the next month is an apartment on the corner of Ogrook and Kongasak and the Arctic Ocean is just 3 blocks away. The school district recently acquired this 3 unit building to provide temporary housing for itinerant and long-term substitute teachers like me and right now, I am the only tenant. It’s funky, of course, and seems as if it was designed as it was being built as there’s a support post outside my bedroom door, there are 2 utility rooms, and there’s no place for a dining table. I do have a big refrigerator, but it wouldn’t fit in the kitchen, so they put it in the entry room some 20 feet from the stove and counter top. The apartment wasn’t quite clean when I moved in, but Cassie, the district’s Special Services Director, took me to the store and we loaded up on implements of muck destruction, which then gave me a purpose for the next day and a half until I had to report to school. In the purifying process, I discovered a woman’s extra-extra large bikini panty in the washing machine and paused for a minute wondering if I should decorate the wall with it or to use it for some future practical joke. My friend Dan may come up to do some sub-teaching and it would be great fun to sneak it in his luggage when he goes back home. Hey Buddy, explain that to Donna! The indecision decision had it tossed in the trash, however. [read on]
jpb