cookies & the apocalypse

Sitting at a table in C-Street with Andrew & Kim, trying to eat my burrito without choking because I'm laughing, at just about everything; Andrew flipping Kim's ponytail & for some reason that became the most hilarious thing. & then Kim looking out the window at the huge dark cloud behind the trees to the south & pointing it out, & suddenly we're all up against the window trying to figure out if it's smoke from a huge fire ("I hope Uwajimaya isn't burning!") or a really big storm cloud, or Mt. Rainier ("No, it can't be, we'd all be dead!" -"If the earthquake didn't kill us..." - "--the ash would!" -"Or the magma!" "Or ME." - Me, Andrew, Me, Andrew, Kim. Again, for no apparent reason hilarious.) & then looking back at the cloud every few seconds, watching it grow enourmous, and wondering--"Why are we the only ones noticing this?" -"Does no one else care that the WORLD IS ENDING?"
& then getting cookies in the Bistro, Andrew & me raving about how good they were, learning that Kim had never eaten one & being aghast, & then she finally takes a bite of one & her eyes go wide & she says, "Ohmygod you're RIGHT!"
& "I don't care if the world is ending, if I can die while eating this cookie!" & "Try me in ten minutes when I don't have a cookie...then I'll WANT the world to end!"

I want to be a writer to convey things in words, but sometimes I don't think I can. I guess this is just for me, then, because I can't explain how awesome it was.


& oh my...the sun is going down now, spreading strange pink & gold light all over the rain--& I am going to the 12th floor. NOW.

[All my locations so far have been moons. I think I will keep up this trend. ...I think. Isn't Tattooine a moon? It's been too long since I saw the original Star Wars.]