Don't leave your curtains open or turn off your lights

Don't leave your curtains/shades/whatever keeps people from looking into your house at night, open.

Emi and I went on a walk last night. A long one, that had the feeling that we were waiting for an adventure, a real adventure to begin. 

I'd just finished "The Magician King" (I am soooooooo glad Lev Grossman is writing another book!) and the strange almost melancholy feeling was settling over me. The kind when you've just finished a book, and you know it's over. But it was also the feeling that you get when the book didn't turn out the way you expected, and in a bad way almost. Not that anyone died, but the main character has just lost everything that they cared about and for a moment is stuck in a place where nothing can move on. The overall tone of the ending of the book stayed with me as well. The endless stretch of sand, the unmoving water, the soft touch of cold (now replaced by heat) and the feeling of adventure.

I went into our late night walk with that feeling. For a while we swung just talking. Then getting off we walked to a place we normally don't go. A large community of condominiums on the far side of our neighbourhood. There was a small cluster, and a side walk ran around it, stopping in front of each door. Let's walk around was the suggestion and we did. Finding dozens of un-curtained windows and a story behind each. Not that we could really comprehend the lives of these people we could see a moment of it. 

We sat there for a while just watching people. A street lamp flickered on and off. Sending a morse code, and I don't mean that figuratively it looked like it really was. ...... stop .. ...... ... .. stop. Imagine that with a light. Just an ordinary street lamp. An adventure, that sadly wasn't ours.

We walked to Bushes and got doughnuts. Then we walked back. 

It was almost midnight when I got home. No one cared. 

I went to bed and had a ton of dreams. Plays, horror stories, Jess, Jared Leto, buses, 9th grade memories on paper... Just dreams. 

The color of the sky: (yesterday) A sunlight yellow blob took over the horizon on all sides. From it came the usual light blue. Looking up you could see white lacy clouds forming from the blue sky.