4:16 p.m. - 2003-02-27
Right Now
Right now there are two rabbits hiding in a cardboard box in a house in Alabama. They have just conned their caretaker out of some large pieces of pineapple, and they think they are being devious.
Right now there are three cats in the same house who have just been given their nightly dinner. They are eating as fast as they can, after which they will stretch out on the sofa and snooze. Except for one of them who is deaf, who will spend his time trying to communicate with the dead leaves outside the window.
Right now, in the upstairs of this house, there is a small black cat who is listening to classical music on the radio. She is thinking about whether to hiss or act friendly the next time her people come up the stairs. She arbitrarily decides to hiss.
Right now, in a university classroom, a biology professor is playing a CD of frog calls to his students. He's thinking of how funny his wife would find this CD, and how he has to get bunny food on the way home.
Right now, in an office in Los Angeles, a woman who has just started using her birthname again is at work in a lawyer's office. She has one more hour to go and a long commute home on a motorcycle. She is thinking about installing her kitchen cabinets.
Right now, in Boston, a man with a handlebar mustache has just gotten off work. He may go home and work on a story. It will probably have the word "xenolite" in it.
Right now, on the other side of Boston, a woman with curly black hair is opening a letter from her friend in Alabama. The letter has an article on the treatment of high blood pressure with fish oil, and she wonders if this would work for her husband.
Right now, a fashionably dressed woman is on her way home to Gloucester. She's thinking about her cat, Zlatko, and also about a service she attended at the Unitarian Church.
Right now there's a man walking down the street in Central Square. He's wondering what to bring to his next writer's group, and whether to go to the Mexican place next to Seven Stars for dinner.
Right now, a nurse in Watertown is getting ready to do her shift. She is thinking about her upcoming vacation to Memphis and Alabama, and about a phone conversation she just had with the friend she is about to visit. The friend was upset about being treated badly by someone, and the nurse had reassured her by saying not to worry, that person never was too well wrapped.
Right now, a couple in North Carolina are expecting their second baby. They are wondering about how to break the news to their first child, a boy named Colin.
Right now, a man in Australia is wondering why he hasn't heard from his cousin in America for several days, and why the candy she sent him at Christmas hasn't arrived yet. He is on his way to visit his daughter, who is distressed about the death of her 18 year old dog.
Right now, also in Australia, two bears are discussing the brain of their good friend, and what the proper use would be for several good sized stones.
Right now, in a cabin in DIllard, Georgia, a woman with straight, brown hair and a shy smile is painting with acrylics. She usually paints with oils, but on her artist's retreat she wanted to try something different.
Right now, in an art gallery in Birmingham, the gallery owner and her husband are trying to straighten out the wiring problem in their new building. There is a group of artists in the gallery, all helping to put together the new space.
Right now, on the bedside table of the first house on this list, there is a cherrywood box with a small bag of ashes inside. And in a sunny corner of feline heaven, the little cat the ashes belonged to sits next to two of his old, close friends, and purrs.
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Yeah, I'm just thinking about some of my friends today. Just wondering about what ya'll are doing....
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