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OK...Here I am at ASL thinking about films I  have seen this year.

I saw a few on video at 545:

Social Network (not to be confused with Network)

Symbopsychosocioplasm (or something to that effect)

If

I saw quite a few when I was homeless in August:


Crazy Stupid

The Future

The Help

Columbiana

30 Minutes or Less

Horrible Bosses


And then recently:


My Week


The Skin

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Summer, shelter, stays and storms

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Mid-September and it's getting cold...On August 24th a city Marshall came to my door and informed me I would have to leave the apartment, but my stuff would be held there for 30 days. At the appeals court, someone suggested asking for a stay of the re-letting of the apartment. After two weeks of staying up all night watching movies, riding trains and sitting in diners...I found my way to a women's shelter in the Bronx with help from and thanks to Kristen from Scott Stinger's Office. The shelter is a city intake center and run by the Salvation Army. It's in an old Armory. The people there are mostly nice. However, my case-worker there, Ms. Tavaris, hasn't been very helpful. I have a very limited time to get help with the stay. Otherwise, I will have to move my things to a storage place.

A friend of a friend from 4th U has a lead on an apartment that might work out. Still looking for good roommates to share housing either at 545 or somewhere else. Still feeling righteous about fighting the negligent, harassing, over-charging owners of the 545 W 146th Street. HPD is taking them to court...so that is an optimistic sign. Next court date, September 22...11th floor....111 Center Street.

the sky is falling

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I am feeling alternately good and awful as I am still trying to get over this very bad cold that has moved from my throat to my sinus to my chest then back to my sinus while still kind of hanging out in my chest. Then kind of causing some sort of flu like thing in my head. THis while I am very close to being evicted and needing to take the train downtown to see about making an appeal to Judge Halprin's Marrch 7th Decision that I owe my negligent LL $73, 000.

Oh and the kitchen ceiling collapsed. Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Electricity!

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This is the day after Martin Luther King Day. It's raining outside. I just returned from the gym thinking I should get the laundry together. Then got excited about having a working computer, electricity (con-edison stopped trying to charge me for my ex-roommate's bill) and internet access...so I am cleaning all the old photos from the Nikon Coolpix and putting them on this apple laptop lent by Steven Chiu. I hope he doesn't mind.

In other news, I have combined my roommate search with the search for Art Collective directors. This Is how I met Ana from the Center for Book Arts who has been here for a little over a week and has helped enormously with the rehab.

Au Revoir 2010, Bon Jour 2011

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Sitting here on the futon in the dining room,
listening to the kitchen sink making kind of
pretty, dripping, gurggling, water sounds and
getting ready to head out into the street,
past the McDonalds, and down into the train which
(god willing) will carry me to the gym.

Happy New Year!

May peace and happiness be with you
and your loved ones.