danger, danger will robinson!

it is ten past nine in the morning and i've already had a very, very long day. i wake up at a quarter to six, have a very nice shower, and i'm blowing my hair dry...when the doorbell rings. i ignore it, figuring it's some dipshit door-to-door thing that i'm really not interested in.

it rings again.

and again.

finally, i figure that maybe, just maybe, it might be something important. so, i throw on some clothes, buzz them in, poke my head out the door, and...

"anybody call for an ambulance?"

ambulance?

"um...no...i don't think so. probably my downstairs neighbor." (my downstairs neighbor is from the devonian era, more or less)

so, they go to his apartment and knock and knock and knock and knock. no answer. his phone rings. and rings and rings and rings. no answer.

so, they do what any EMT would do when a potential call doesn't answer:

they bust his door down.

i kid you not. when i come downstairs to go to work, tim's giant metal door has been beaten out of the frame and is now lying on the floor, along with a few chunks of doorjamb. and what did this act of object brutality reveal? tim wasn't home.

so, it looks like he didn't call the ambulance.

and then it occurs to me...well, i didn't ask the roommate if he'd called an ambulance. what if it was for him? what if there was some sort of history of heart issues or something in his family that he hadn't told hime about? what if i'd just left him to die?

so, halfway to the subway, this thought strikes me, and so i start calling the roommate. the logical part of my brain says: no, he's just sleeping. the irrational part of my brain says: aaargh!

either way. i'm going to worry until i hear from him.

anyway. time to chill out if i can, show tonight and all the wonder that that entails. and worry. will i have a crowd respectable enough to get them to book me again? will the ghost make an appearance as promised, or do i get to chalk him up to the list of assholes? will the cover go okay? what's the playlist? will i remember the words to the new song?

ah, the life of a wannabe rock star. it never does run smooth.