-ran to my train this morning and actually caught it.
-ate lunch in a mall.
-5 pages from finishing I, claudius.

Red Metro-North trains go to Connecticut; blue metro-north trains stay in NY. I learned that the hard way this morning.

Last night I did something that I’ve never done before

I stayed up to finish reading The Great Gatsby- for the pure enjoyment of it. I have started many books but never ever finish them. I don’t even know why. I will read a book, get about 60 to 100 pages in and think to myself “I really like this book” then lay it down… forever.

I should have been building characters in flash.

You haven’t lived until you’ve had to sink-wash your clothing.

If you are waiting for your paycheck to come or you are just flat broke, you may have had to wash clothes without a machine. Here are a few tips I have discovered through troubled times.

1. Choose only necessities such as underwear/panties, socks, beater or t-shirt and the clothes you plan to wear tomorrow. Don’t try to wash loads at a time. Make sure to leave an emergency (not as filthy) shirt and pants in case clothes do not dry in time.

2. If you know you will be low on clean clothes for a while- try layering the ones you have. This will preserve your outer clothing by trapping sweat at the beater/t-shirt underneath.

3. Don’t use too much detergent. It’s difficult to rinse out and will make your clothes stiffer. Plus, you probably don’t have much if any. You can also use fabric softener after your first rinse …if you can score some. I can’t use softener its makes my skin itch.

4. Really wring out your clothes.

5. Hang them from the shower rod so they drip into the tub. Use hangers or clean off the topside of the rod so dust doesn’t stain clothes when they are stretched over.

6. Open a window and try to get a cross breeze going. Remove clothes from the bathroom after they have dripped and hang them in a drier environment such as your room in front of a window, ac or fan.

7. If it’s a humid summer night in New York City DO NOT LEAVE WET CLOTHES IN THE BATHROOM OVERINIGHT. You will have moist mildew undies in the morning. In which case you must wash them all again and dry in the sun or find quarters for a machine drier. It sucks to take wet clothes to the Laundromat, but it can be done.

8. If you must take wet clothes to the Laundromat (because it's too humid to dry at home): place your wet, well wringed clothes in a bag. When you get there, snatch a laundry cart, walk out of sight dump your clothes in the cart. Now walk over to the driers as if you had been there all along. yay clean socks!



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