•  read large chunk near the end of ‘the remainder’ by tom mccarthy. recommend this book. i feel like the guy in it, kind of. he’s awarded 8.5 million pounds from this car accident settlement, doesn’t want anything with the money, then at a party he’s bored and goes to the bathroom and sees a piece of plaster on the wall and all of a sudden has this sudden unplaceable eidetic memory/image of himself in an apartment he spends his money physically reconstructing. he just recreates his memory of this thing he’s not sure why he remembers…highly recommended.

•  the lights came on around 5PM. texted mark ‘woohoo! you did it, thank you!’

•  mark came up to check my electricity. someone was doing repairs in the building earlier and remembered to turn everyone’s electricity back on but mine and another person’s. mark did things to the stove. then the stove worked. we talked about cats mostly, i think. when he was by the stove, i saw that there was no way he could not see the things in the sink, so i said ‘oh that stuff in the sink is my pre-laundry soak pile’ and told him shirley peed. his cats pee too. he said they recently got a kitten. i said i wanted it if he didn’t. meant it at the time. felt easy to talk with mark, he’s a real…he’s got a real ‘gift of the gab.’ a lot of…shit. i don’t pay enough attention to remember. they’re kind of like wisecracks. have thought for a while that mark is ‘onto me’ but now…seems okay. not sure what he’d be ‘onto,’ other than shitty embarrassing life i seem to be ‘hiding from’ more than ‘living,’ how would he be ‘onto’ that. he left.