It's Literally Just Like 'The Shining'

So on Thursday night my friend Seung had a painting in this art show and stopped by the opening after work -- it was at one of her friends' apartments on Broadway, right above Yellow Rat Bastard (how's that for location?). She basically had the best thing in the show (and the only painting -- on canvas at least). The rest of the stuff was pretty... bad. It was mostly so-called "mixed media" pieces, including, but not limited to, a plywood crate attached to a set of a drapes and hanging from the ceiling. You know, like, stupid stuff.

Anyway, by the time I'd left the show it had gotten pretty dark, which was sort of disorienting, since it was totally light when I'd gotten there. I thought I should head for either the Delancey St. or East Broadway F stops, so I headed off Eastward and walked for like 6 blocks before I realized I had know idea where either of those stops was in relation to where I was. That, plus the fact that I kept thinking that Mer would be waiting for me and I hadn't called her to let her know where I was, and hadn't yet realized how sick I was with this shitty cold I've got now, led me to basically freak the fuck out. Pretty embarrassing, considering I'm supposed to have grown up in this city. Well, Jake, it was Chinatown.

I eventually made it to East Broadway, which, no kidding, is pretty East, and thus home to B'klyn. But I was still all wound up by the time I got back to the apartment, so I thought I'd do a few chores to calm myself down. The overhead light in the kitchen had been getting a lot dimmer, so I decided to remove the fixture and replace the bulb. One thing we'd always noticed about the fixture, which was one of those simple, screw-on glass dish dealies, was that it had a big splotch on the interior of one side, which we'd always assumed was paint. Well, when I finally got it down, I noticed that not only was it full of bug carcasses, a bunch of which had rained down on me as I was unscrewing it, but that splotch was actually a wasp's nest! Holy shit! Mind you, it was clearly devoid of actual wasps, but it definitely had a little hole in it for a wasp or wasp-like critter. So that didn't calm me down at all.