(dc fast 5) another whole world

each year at this time i am blown away by how many people are out and about at 5:30am. it's like a world that's completely separate from mine that i never get to see except between march 2 and march 20. i don't know about you, but when i wake up at 5 and get dressed and it's cold and dark out, i go out of my house expecting to be the lone ranger on empty streets. the degree to which reality is the opposite continually amazes me. today on the way in to work traffic was actually worse than it normally is at 8 or 9 when i usually drive to work on monday mornings. busses running, people clustered on corners, people getting coffee, solid headlights both ways on the roads. and today is the first day i've gotten here early enough to snag the VERY first parking spot closest to the door. last week both fast mornings i wasn't fast enough.

i know i must overlap with these people (the people whose normal life is getting up at 5am every morning), but i never really notice them until march. respect and props to them. i don't know how they do it. 19 days of this is about my limit. it's day 5 of 19 and i'm already behind on sleep because i had too much fun last night at my hiphop/reggae/rap devotional. nasan (aka mozem) rocked my studio that was jam packed with about 40 people. ashkan took lots of pics. as soon as he sends them to me, i'll post them.