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krisis

Krisis has been creating Crushing Krisis since 2000, writing songs since 1996, and reading comics since 1991. He is a Customer Success and Digital Brand Strategy executive, serial organizer, parent, and feminist, among other things. Based in Philly through 2017, he now resides in Wellington, NZ.

October 14, 2001 by krisis

Out of my entire family my grandmother was really the only person who read the Sunday paper with any kind of regularity. Whenever i would stay in her house i was absolutely guaranteed to wake up to find her at her thick kitchen table with the comics section all splayed out in front of her working on cryptics and things with the teevee blithely chirping weekend nonsense in the background.

I wasn’t one for waking up early and so i would always miss the sound of crawling through the paper… front page stories, local interest, past the ads neatly tucked in front of the funnies for just that reason. I only ever saw the aftermath.


Today i awoke to a quiet sort of rustling seeping through the sturdy door and it took me a moment to orient to just where i was before i realized someone was reading the paper in the kitchen. I didn’t want to bother them, so i just rolled over and took a nap.

https://crushingkrisis.com/2001/10/6328055/

Filed Under: family, memories Tagged With: boston, rabi

October 14, 2001 by krisis

I did not expect, among all of things i could have possibly been expecting, that i would see my breath when i stepped off of the plane. Honestly, it wasn’t anywhere on the list. One wing had a blue light and the other had a red one and when we descending from inside of the clouds down into fog it lit up the entire mess of it like two flavours of cotton candy on either side. I couldn’t see a thing until we weren’t even a few hundred feet from the ground, and then it was taxi taxi taxi to the bus that lead to the terminal and every time we were hustled off of one thing and into another i would breath my own little fog and then move on along.

Flight delays were on the list of expected things, but not flight delays literally as long as the flight itself. Not that i’m complaining about being in the airport for nearly four hours before leaving, i’m just remarking… otherwise, the airport was an airport, and flying was flying (except for the fact that we were in a tiny 36 seat saab with only 7 total passengers and a funny female pilot and it just felt a lot more secure than other flights i’ve been on – i don’t mean secure in the sense of national security and being worried and things like that, i just mean that i felt more comfortable than i do on bigger flights where i’m trying to distract myself the entire time).

Rabi was amusing and as effervescent through my incessant chattering as always, and she enthusiastically joined in my attempts to make the internet kiosk in the airport boot up. And now i’m in her house, after meeting and haltingly chatting with her parents and brother. Isn’t it funny that i’m in this middle of this huge stretch of hardly being able to relate to anyone and yet i’m in the middle of another state with this random (for all intents and purposes) girl in her dining room and i feel like everything is okay?

I definitely needed to get the heck out of Philly, that’s for darn sure.

https://crushingkrisis.com/2001/10/6321990/

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: boston, rabi

October 13, 2001 by krisis

Okay. Suitcase is packed. Layout is in a holding pattern. Gleaming metallic ruby hair is gelled. Two forms of identification proving my identity safely ensconced inside of my wallet. Now for that bit about flying…

https://crushingkrisis.com/2001/10/6312989/

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: boston

October 13, 2001 by krisis

Only i would start a freaking redesign mid-pack. My only excuse is that i was packed before Rabi, and she has to catch two trains while i only need to catch one.

See, if you rationalize enough you start to get good at it.

https://crushingkrisis.com/2001/10/6312276/

Filed Under: thoughts, webdesign Tagged With: boston, rabi

October 13, 2001 by krisis

Boston is currently fifty-five degrees, but it feels like forty-nine. Cords are back in the suitcase. I am neurotic.

https://crushingkrisis.com/2001/10/6311157/

Filed Under: ocd, thoughts Tagged With: boston

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