3:42PM: phase four (take out trash/feed cats/pack bag/make bed/look at american apparel ‘sale’ bathing suits and start an order you don’t intend to finish) completed. preparing for departure of apartment. official departure sequence activating in 5, 4, 3, 2…

4:06pm: filled gas. Asked attendant inside of they do oil changes. He said ‘nuh. Uh. But’ and gestured to the back and shook his head no. I said ‘are they open?’ he said ‘no. They close’ and sighed heftily. I said ‘oh okay, thank you’ and started to leave. I said ‘do you know who’s open?’ he gestured down the road and said ‘euh. Mobil?’ I said ‘oh Mobil, thank you.’ I liked him.

4:10pm: pulled into Mobil. Saw two sets of legs hanging out the front seat of a white conversion van. One of the sets of legs looked like they were attached to a female ass. ‘bang a gong’ by t-Rex was playing. Got out of the car and said ‘hi, scuse me.’ a set of man-legs attached to a man-body slid out the door. The woman’s legs remained where they were. The woman turned around. I recognized her, she’s kindra, she took pictures of my car for a photo inspection so I could get insurance. She said ‘how’m I help you?’ I said ‘oh hi! Do you guys do oil changes?’ she said ‘yeah, you come back tomorrow?’ I said ‘oh no, I need it today I think, but…’ she said ‘you come back tomorrow, right now I tryna finish up dis one.’ I said ‘that’s okay, thank you though.’ she was smiling really big the whole time, leaning out of the van. When I left the man scooted back into the front seat. They were looking at the floor.

4:22pm: I’m in a waiting area at the gulf station across from the first gas station. Being helped by an attractive man named Chris. He is servicing my car. I think ‘servicing’ is really funny. I’m being serviced by Chris. It will be about 20 minutes. I smell a little like the scallop stuff from last night, I’m bringing leftovers for mom to try. A drake ringtone just went off. A man’s voice answered the phone. He said ‘ey ma.’ he is talking in Spanish to a woman’s Spanish-speaking phone voice.

4:25pm: man with a shaved head wandered into waiting area. Just felt excited about ‘getting to do this,’ like liveblog is my version of a living in Sims-like video game. Holding my phone like I’d hold my DS. Where the hell is my DS. It was a DS lite. It was pink. What happened…

4:27pm: insane email from dentist. this isn’t the first time I’ve received an email like this from this dentist.