09/03/2002

I'm on a subway going to work. I get off at my stop and it's a big station underground. It's warm, steamy, full of people, things gray and brown. On top of the station is built a mall that goes upward. It is very fancy and the ground level is decorated like an English train station.
I go to work. It's my first day and I don't do anything. I have my coat on for a lot of the day. After work I go next door to this shoe store. There are so many pairs and I want them all.
I leave and it's snowing out. I'm on East Colfax, walking west. I'm struggling against the wind and snow. Now I'm on a side street, by an elementary school, possibly Stedman. I see this guy I went to school with; he's wearing shorts and a Hawaiian shirt. He tells me not to give up against the wind. We start walking together and I don't have a problem any more. The entire time I was struggling, not the other way around.