Thursday, January 04, 2007
Tenement sweet tenement
Well, I'm back in New York, and the trip getting here was a little grueling. Chingy! acted up in an unprecendented manner once we got to JFK, but since I now have to go to work and spend a wild and crazy day remembering what the hell it is I do in lab and separating about 9,000 cages of mice, I'll have to wait until this evening before I can relate that story here.
In the meantime, I'll just mention that there was no doubt in my mind I wasn't in the P-N-Dub anymore when my elderly Puerto Rican neighbor Rosa woke me up at six this morning reading the riot act en espanol to her common-law husband. After two peaceful weeks in the P-N-Dub, where the most disruptive sound is that of my insomniac father lumbering around the house late at night, I had completely forgotten how noisy life is here in New Jack City. It appears I have some ghetto reacclimatization to do.
On the bright side, all the mouse poison I'd baited my apartment with before leaving seems to have been eagerly devoured by my rodent roommates, and my kitchen counter and oven top was surprisingly devoid of mouse shit. I may have actually succeeded in exterminating all those motherfuckers over the holidays. No hantavirus for me this year!
In the meantime, I'll just mention that there was no doubt in my mind I wasn't in the P-N-Dub anymore when my elderly Puerto Rican neighbor Rosa woke me up at six this morning reading the riot act en espanol to her common-law husband. After two peaceful weeks in the P-N-Dub, where the most disruptive sound is that of my insomniac father lumbering around the house late at night, I had completely forgotten how noisy life is here in New Jack City. It appears I have some ghetto reacclimatization to do.
On the bright side, all the mouse poison I'd baited my apartment with before leaving seems to have been eagerly devoured by my rodent roommates, and my kitchen counter and oven top was surprisingly devoid of mouse shit. I may have actually succeeded in exterminating all those motherfuckers over the holidays. No hantavirus for me this year!
Labels: Harlem world, NYC
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