January 16, Sunday.

Woke up to a parking ticket on my car. Asked a guy on the street if I wasn't supposed to park there. Apparently there is a even-odd parking deal in Derby. There wasn't a sign saying I couldn't park there.... And there were other cars there when I left it. $10 won't break the bank.

Met some of my neighbors on the floor below mine. I met Mark, who retired at 52 and is missing his front teeth. He was smoking in the stairwell next to the no smoking sign. He said if I ever needed anything I could see him, or if I just didn't feel like leaving the apartment building, I could visit him. He thought that I looked like I was a college graduate. Yes I am. He said it was because I looked intellegent. okay. I told him I had to go because I was meeting friends in New Haven. He said I looked like someone from New Haven.

I also met a morbidly obese woman who was blocking my path down the staircase. She had to hold onto the rail to stand up. I forgot her name, but she introduced me to another woman, Dee Dee, who was her case manager. Dee Dee and I left the apartment building at the same time. I didn't talk to her, because I couldn't figure out what to say to my neighbor's case manager.