passing afternoon

At lunch time yesterday I walked home to the apartment, and there were donkeys chilling across the street with no apparent owner to claim them. By the time I came back out they had crossed the road and ended up in the roundabout with the big Kilimanjaro brewery fountain. I really wish I had been carrying my camera.

After work yesterday I aquired a surprise walking companion, a boy of about 8 still in school uniform, named Andrew. I said, mambo, he said poa, and next thing I know he was dodging puddles with me the whole mile to my gate (this is the 3rd day in a row of Oregon weather, thanks to whoever put in that request for me :0). The funniest thing about our walk together was that we really couldn't communicate. I would try to ask a question, in either swahili or english, and he would try to answer it. But I dont think either one of us ever understood each other, other than that we were enjoying not walking alone.

When I got home, I turned the t.v. on for the first time in a month, prompted by a rumor that our cable was working again. There was a cute Indian commercial on with people singing on a train, and at the end of the commercial the following words pop up on the screen: "why walk alone?" very cute and conincidental, I thought to myself.

A bit later I was texting my friend Alfred to find out what the world cup game schedule was for the next couple days, and he wrote back the following (verbatim mind you): did u c liverpool play the other day SWEET "YOU SHALL NEVER WALK ALONE"

Okay so blame it on me reading too much into things, or the fact that the power had just shut off and I was sitting in the dark, or the fact that Victoria who was sitting and chatting with me was creeped out too, but I was about ready to NEVER walk by myself again. Alfred clarified later that it is the liverpool motto, which gave us all a good laugh, but I'm still not so sure someone wasnt trying to tell me something!