Hmmmm. where to start...

The other night I was reading the "Today in Rotten History" post at Rotten.com. There was a blurb about the 1991 Oakland Firestorm. The day the firestorm started, October 20th, I was away from home. It was the week of my cousin's wedding.

Across the San Francisco Bay from my house was an inferno. I watched the firestorm on a hotel TV from Manhattan, NY! Touching base talking to a couple Marin friends gave me real non-mass media understanding: Everywhere it was really, really smokey, and the huge fire tongues were visible across bay from our Marin County hill- neighborhood view. It felt SO SURREAL just arriving in NY, NY, with the Bay Area conflagration on (which I never ever never watch but is on in the Hotel Room) TV.

I brought my then epic significant living together (bipolar, fresh from a week in the crisis center, too) boyfriend. He obsessed with fire, who's house was fried, and took his meds half the time we were there.

I realized another feeling coaster ride I was on too. Before our leaving home for the trip east and I kept thinking something was wonky with my monthly cycle, hummmm thought more.

We just had the Loma Preita Quake 2 years before

There is another angle to be revealed but I'm melting now. Nighty Night