January 28

 

I am in someone’s house using the bathroom. The door to the bathroom is a screen door. As I relieve myself, I say aloud to myself in French how exhausted I am. My mother walks in the room adjoining the bathroom and repeats what I just said in French. I do not respond and there is no further conversation. The scene switches to a setting where there is a lot of disarray. I see boxes and bags with items hanging out of them as if someone had packed or unpacked very sloppily. Two young men are walking in and out of the rooms. It is understood that I am there to fix the toilet, but it’s difficult to do since the two are in and out and often in my way.