Maybe I shouldn’t have come in to work today
I’m pretty neutral about birds but now that a dozen or so are dead due to mysterious circumstances in downtown Austin where I work maybe I should care more.
I came in yesterday to work on some stuff… at one point while I was smoking in the parking garage I was staring at the birds that cluster in the three trees in front of the Omni hotel and thinking about nothing really. If only I’d known that I wouldn’t see them alive again.
So I drive in today (I come in from MoPac down fifth street), a little late due to extremely bad allergies and lack of sleep, and the police have shutdown Congress. I think, Must be a marathon, and keep driving in a long loop down to first so I can come back up Brazos. By the time I get to my floor in the garage I realize that this garage is empty—there’s really a dearth of other cars about. I pull into a primo parking space, thinking about bomb threats and anthrax scares but not really concerned (I just don’t worry about terrorist attacks… not very productive kind of thoughts). When I get into the office it’s a ghost town and I finally get the news.
If I get any pictures of guys in hazmat suits on my phone I’ll post them in a flash. ( =