DELIGHTFUL

we've been pretty busy at lightstudiola lately. my boss landed a gargantuan project (57,000 sq. ft. house in bel air. the average american home is about 2,300 sq. ft. so...yeah. it's definitely gargantuan. ps: the wife's walk in closet is 1200 sq. ft. so is the theater in the basement.) and of course the architectses we're working with want everything yesterday. i've been working a lot more than usual. it kind of sucked, at first, b/c i wasn't used to long hours. i'm bad at taking breaks, so my eyes get tired, and i have bad posture, so my back does too. i'm more used to it now. but i digress.

so i was in a terrible mood, day and night, for a while.

one day in the midst of this grump fest, a rabbit hopped by the sliding glass doors my desk faces. a fucking rabbit. in culver city. i thought i was hallucinating.

it was obviously someone's pet. jamie and chris and i had pet rabbits when we were kids. they were all males, and territorial--rabbits mark their territories like dogs do. they piss all over. our three rabbits lived in adjacent cages. not together, but pretty darn close. and they pissed all over each other. we rotated their cages so each rabbit had it's turn being in the middle cage. despite that, they needed baths pretty frequently. we would wash them with the hose in a plastic basin, and they would come out looking really pathetic then run away and find a safe spot to lick their fur back the way it was.

this random rabbit looked like my rabbit, midnight, post a good bath. it was all wet. so i immediately thought: someone was bathing their pet rabbit and it got away!

i went outside and grabbed it, and brought it inside so we could find it's owner. turned out it belonged to my boss' neighbor. his name was pitch. he was in the backyard (she called it "the garden" b/c she's british, which automatically makes it and her way fancier. i'm imagining a profusion of roses and dainty china tea cups and....uptight fabulousness.) while it was being watered and got out.

so there's my anecdote for the day. notable only because it was notable--and strangely uplifting. it made me realize that i need to let more amusement into my daily life. so often i choose to be annoyed or pissed off by something that just as easily could be entertaining. there's so much out there that's amazing and miraculous, just waiting to be witnessed. i wanted to tell everyone about this rabbit. and now i have.