Halloween

I boiled some eggs for breakfast. I used Larry’s “get the water boiling then put the eggs in for four and a half to five minutes” technique. It gets the eggs to the perfect softness. The problem I’m having is when I put the eggs in the boiling water gently with a big spoon to assist in the gentleness, one of the eggs always ends up cracking and spewing out its innards which froths up the water and reduces the amount of egg in the affected egg.

Larry’s watching this film called Babysitters while he draws which looks sexy about babysitters having sexual relationships with the husbands of couples they babysit for. I criticized it for being about relationships of younger women with older men. Larry has a problem because he can’t watch action or comedic or subtitled films when he’s drawing. They’re too visual. Because, ironically, he doesn’t actually watch the films that much, he listens to them. It wasn’t fair of me to criticize it just because of the older man, younger woman thing. But I did anyway. Then I joined him and watched it for a bit and it wasn’t bad.

Eli came home extremely drunk in the middle of the night. He knocked on the side door, waking us up then collapsed on the stairs that lead up to the main floor. He was crying. He was talking incomprehensibly about being treated wrongly. About being beaten on. I don’t think it was that bad. Larry was talking to him and even helping examine him and making sure.

Larry was helping him so much this week with emotional problems he has. Making sure he got to see his therapist. I don’t know why he had to go and get drunk. But I’m not completely ungenerous. I told Larry that maybe it’s just that the only way Eli used to know how to cope with his problematic feelings was by getting drunk. Now he’s doing better so maybe the getting drunk thing is just an old habit. Wasn’t that sweet of me to think that?

Eli had black mascara on because it was a Halloween party. A girl he liked had made him up. But we don’t know what happened to that girl from his story. There were these guys he shared a tab with and it was about eighty dollars and they took off. But he was the responsible one and stayed and didn’t run away. Also he was helping sort out a fight that had happened earlier. So if he was the responsible one and not running away why should he have to pay the full tab? That wasn’t fair. He just wanted to pay his part. And it wasn’t right either that he was picked up by security in the first place. He was the one helping out and being responsible. What was the most upsetting thing – the bad treatment - I think was they wouldn’t let him go.

Eli couldn’t answer Larry how he got home. Maybe because in his head, he was still out there. He could answer. But his answer kept starting at when he was helping out with the fight and then winding somewhere other than answering Larry’s question.

He was going to take responsibility for the $4,000 lambskin jacket that he didn’t come home with that Bubbie had got with him a little while ago in the morning. Eli looked down at his arms which were only partly covered with a short sleeved shirt on and brought up losing it. But I don’t think they really paid $4,000 for it. There’s no way Bubbie would get Eli a $4,000 lambskin jacket unless it cost a lot less than that.