It’s a rainy Sunday. Nothing but rain rain rain. So far the high winds haven’t hit but it’s been pissing all day. Some streets are flooded, the skylight outside our apartment in the hallway has a leak and I had to put some pots out there to collect the water and I’ve been popping my head out there to make sure they don’t overflow. I called Peter Amin, the landlord about it but so far he hasn’t shown. Not that he could do anything about it in the middle of the storm. This happened a few years ago and it was fixed then, but once again soggy carpeted stairways abound.

I think I’ve been outdoors more times today than I was yesterday and yesterday was the better day to be outdoors. I went out for the bagels and went to the supermarket and also played nurse practitioner to Julio and Stine’s headaches. Seems like the pipers union was in town for them this morning, due to the fact that they had gone out the night before, Julio not eating, and mixing the grain with the grape, drinking wine, champagne and beer, and Stine having something to eat, with just a general hangover, i.e. Dehydration. I hung out with them for a bit this morning after the emergency call for aspirin, or Tylenol, or Advil and luckily for them I had all three.

They had quite a good time it seemed at a surprise party for Julio’s cousin’s 40th birthday. Julio turns 40 next year which should make for a good reason for a great party. I’m sure Stine will come up with something.Last night I hung out and watched Volver, Almodovar’s latest. It was good but not as good as All About My Mother or Talk to Her. Penelope Cruz was great and it was wonderful to see Carmen Maura in an Almodovar film again. Almodovar’s films have definitely evolved over the years from when Julio and I first saw Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown at the Bleecker Street Cinema in 1987.

And it continues to rain. Just looked out onto the pots and there’s maybe an inch of water in both of them. It’s supposed to rain for the next couple of days actually. I’m taking the rain to be a good omen for me with the new job. When I first interviewed with Wanker Banker it was during a deluge and tomorrow promises to be exactly that. I’m pretty much psyched for it. I just looked at the list of responsibilities for the job and looking forward to doing each and every one of them since they were cherry picked from my resume, so I have no doubt I can do this.

Julio and Stine wished me good luck this week and then they went about trying to decide to go to another family party out in NJ somewhere or go back to bed. They were really struggling with the decision when I left and I don’t know what it was that they decided to do. That’s about it for this rainy Sunday, April 15, 2007.