77339

thats my zip code in texas, holler.

i remember when i learned it, in first grade. well maybe i learned it before then. what i remember, is having a conversation about it with a classmate. we were both stunned to find out that we had the same zip code.

her name was also allison. and around the same time as our zip code revelation, we started calling ourselves "long lost sisters." because we have the same name. which doesn't really make sense, but we were 6.

anyway, a couple days after ike hit, my dad called me and asked me to look up something online. they didn't have power. he needed a generator for the store he works at, and needed phone numbers to call. i didn't think much of it, because hey, a hurricane blew through.

he just did that again, ten seconds ago. only this time, he told me they heard on the radio that there was a website that listed which zip codes were going to have their power restored on which days. so i looked theirs/ours up? (this is not my home...neither is houston...but it's cool...i'm fine...whatever...)

their power isn't being restored until "late monday night, the 22nd."

dude.

WHAT?

that's so messed up.

here i am, blogging way too much again. two posts in a night. how narcissistic. and down in the promised land*, they don't have any electricity. they're still not back into the swing of things. my parents made it sound like it was no big deal since alicia was so much worse in 1983. i declare that they are wrong.

it's just so strange to me how our situations could be so different. my life has only changed in terms of gas prices. they're probably so hot every night trying to sleep, and they can't cook in the house, so they have to like...heat up tv dinners on the grill outside or something like that. they're living like freaking cavemen. 21st century cavemen.

weird.

*this might tempt you to say "i guess it's not the promised land, after all." so i would like to remind you that there were giants to conquer in the original one. it wasn't all milk and honey, people.**

**blog footnotes are cool.***

***i wrote these footnotes yesterday, and today i discovered they were missing...so now i'm kind of creeped out. like maybe someone knows my password. but they only wanted to delete that out of the post. creepy.