Too late.

[hummingwolf]

I went into DC today to pay the doctor bill. Got there too late. Door barred. No forms, no cooperation, no reason to be there.

Wandered around a bit in a daze after that, going in circles in ways that made even the crazy street people think I was weird. Had another one of those interminable depressing discussions with myself about whether or not what I do matters and whether it matters that it matters. I'll spare you the boring details. In any event, the debate was a tie, so the tiebreaker will be a phone call to the doctor's office on Monday to find out if too late is or is not truly too late.

To save myself some money, I hung around in bookstores and then a food court until seven p.m., when the Metro fares are reduced. As I was walking out of the Metro station close to home, a light in the parking lot went out as I passed it. I remembered that some people with fibromyalgia have claimed that they have weird effects on electrical things, making lights go out and computers misbehave; and I thought to myself how neat it would be to be able to impress people with this ability, to think to myself, "Lights will go out now" and have them go out; and as I thought of the lights going out, a half dozen more lights in the area around me did go out. Too bad I couldn't just think them back on again--I hate walking alone in the dark.

Now, time to figure out what's around here that I can eat for supper.

Comments

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

oh, darn, all that way and then they were closed! i'm sorry, cb. i hope they cooperate with you when you call on monday. hope you found something good for supper!

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your good hopes. Much appreciated. :-)

(Supper was from a Chef Boy-ar-dee can. I was too tired to go for nutritious food.)

let there be dark.

[icdedpeople.livejournal.com]

i've had similar experiences with the lights... i can't tell how much is coincidence or what. they at least seem more likely to go out when i walk near them. one night it seemed expecially so and then one went out the second i walked underneath it and gave me the willies.

you might do a search under "Pauli effect" and see what you find.

Re: let there be dark.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Most of the time, I'm sure the street lights are coincidence. After all, people rarely pay attention to streetlights except for the nearest one, so with bulbs dying all the time, it's the ones that died as you walked by them that you notice. What got my attention last night was that it happened when I thought about making it happen, and it was at least six lights all at once.

Fortunately, I don't seem to create problems with my computer (though a monitor I had until last summer always hated me and probably would have killed me if my surge protector weren't looking out for me).

[skygypsy.livejournal.com]

hee. i always notice lights going out when i pass them too. so odd. and rather disconcerting. YESSS, it definitely should work the *other* way!!! "let there be light!" *shazam*

;)