Underwater
Posted on | August 29, 2005 | 4 Comments
I woke up moody this morning, my body drenched in sweat, feeling off-kilter for no particular reason. Sometimes it’s just like that. Everything feels slanted, thick, slightly smashed. And I couldn’t shake the mood all day. Even after a nap in an air conditioned bedroom, an iced tea and a trip to the bakery. Tonight I dragged my unmotivated self to the pool for a swim, doing a just about a mile. Lap after lap, pulling through the water, my lips and nose and cheekbones periodically pushing through the surface for air.
It didn’t help that it was gray out all day, the air heavy with rain that hasn’t yet fallen. Even up here, northwards by many hundred miles, the weather reflects the storm that’s pounding Louisiana right now. I can’t imagine the anxiety they must feel, wind surging up so hard. Water everywhere. The threat of everything being gone tomorrow.
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I am Christina Rosalie
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August 30th, 2005 @ 12:33 am
I know the feeling, girl.
Go to sleep… it’ll wear off eventually.
Pinky swear.
August 30th, 2005 @ 2:42 am
those underwater days are weird, but also beautiful somehow, you captured the feeling very well.
August 30th, 2005 @ 2:15 pm
Oh ha. I feel for you, but I’m glad to know you have days like this, too. From the way you write and the pictures you take, I imagine this fabulously peaceful woman with an idyllic, creativity-infused life.
August 30th, 2005 @ 4:37 pm
That was a perfectly perfect way to describe it. I know that feeling.