do you know what it's like???

at the moment, outside of my window, there is the following combination of sounds:

the "ice-cream" truck (elsewhere referred to as the Drug Truck)

a stop-and-start car alarm that is jarring in a way that manages to sound both rusty and piercing

some large antihumanoid machine burrowing into the pavement. the same machine that was doing that a few weeks ago, that caused our house to shake so hard that i became convinced they were must have been delivering a subpoena to satan, but no, they are just tearing up the road. again. and again.

also the annual week of the evangelical church gospel pride or whatever has kicked off in full force from the adjoining roof, so throw in the mix sexy-sounding sounds about the love between God and his men (maybe the Gay Pride parade can appropriate that one) and a hypnotic deep male baritone booming into the microphone over and over "gloria gloria gloria hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah santa santa gloria santa santa."

wouldn't you like to be me?

hallelujah.

santa.