sitting in a wafflehouse sunday before st. patrick's day 2010

when we were in Charlotte we tried to put our luggage in a locker at the greyhound station. they don't have any. so, luckily they(the city) has a set of free buses that do two crossing routes through the centre of the city. we were able to get on them and saw the centre of the city anyway. the buses are kitted out to look like old wood trams, very nice. we wandered the city a bit thinking that if we could find a museum or some such we could waste a few hours before the bus to Columbia. that did not work. $20 to a small museum, i think not. so we heard of a place called the epic centre up where we had started our city wanderings. it had a cinema. we decided to go see "Alice in wonderland". they were very nice and let us put our bags behind the counter. so having just over 1/2 an hour before the show we went next door and had very nice burgers at "just five guys" and then went to the cinema. the setup for the cinema reminded me a fair bit of a shrunken version of the UGC in Bruxelles. it seemed rather classy and we had a pair of chairs that was in fact a couch. comfy seats! while watching Alice i was near overcome with pangs of mortality by something the hatter said to Alice. it is so strange to think of death and your own death. if anything rather than make me nihilistic or religious(though that does rear it's head) it makes me hopeful that i shall try to dd to humanity in a small way, maybe become a starting point or a cog in a grand design for something grand like an actual long term plan that helps uplift humanity.