a broken lull.

bah. i got a cold this week. called in sick wednesday because i woke up with a scratchy throat and i wanted to take care of it (took advantage of this ruse to wacth both Seabiscuit and American Splendor). thursday i went in feeling kinda alright. but i got it with the biggest energy drop once i was actually at work. i was a walking zombie. thank god the department i was doing was easy. yesterday was another matter. i felt rather low. i called my friend/coworker up to see if she knew if i could get a vacation day instead of going into work. she said no. she also filled me in some more about why she hadn't been to work the past two days (last week her boyfriend called her up at work, in tears. seems his meds hadn't worked well. she rushed home and they spent the weekend up north to see his doctor).

well, her boyfriend had gotten in a car accident this wednesday coming home from work. he was at the other hospital's emergency room and the cops called my friend up at work and told her to drop everything and come straight away. two hours later he was rushed to a hospital in montreal where there were specialists waiting for him. seems he'd gotten caught in his burning car. that must be hell. seriously. how freaky can that be? anyway. he'd been pretty much out of it since then and scheduled for his operation yesterday. apparently, everything went super fine. but, understandably, my friend hasn't been in the best state since then. last week she lost four days of work. this week she was down by two. so she was going in yesterday. i knew i was also going in when she told me that.

so i went in.
once again i was a semi-zombie but i took some tylenols and only fruits and vegetables for dinner. i actually felt a whole lot better during the evening. i think i spurred my system on to fight this thing. and i slept very well last night. today i'm gonna get some stuff for the cold (it even tastes like a sickness when i cough :) urgh).

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the roommate is once again out for the weekend.
those of you in the Ottawa area can catch her around the Rideau Canal today or tomorrow.

what does on do when he has over two full days off with no roommate? party - no. go out with friends - nope.
you rent movies, dummy! or i do, at least. losers do.

so today i'm planning on going all the way across town to the Blockbuster and renting To Die For (now i'm not sure if i haven't seen it, actually. i started remembering parts of it yesterday at work but i'm not sure if i ever saw the whole thing. i know a friend of mine had the laserdisc back when it came out) and You Can Count on Me. i'm on an 'older' movie bent right now. movies i missed out on and that i can rent for one full week. finding buried treasures among the crap.

last night i thought i could do a Mark Ruffalo festival since i was renting You Can Count on Me and In the Cut is coming out next week, but there's nothing really exciting in his filmography, is there?

oh, and on the trail of Seabiscuit i thought i could rent Gary Ross' Pleasantville. dunno if Blockbuster is carrying the dvd, though.

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next week is Conan in Toronto.
and he's actually gonna have canadian celebs on. i just thought he'd get normal celebs but no. Mike Myers, Michael J Fox (Scrubs is now apparently on tuesday nights. fuckers.), Jim Carrey, Barenaked Ladies, etc. oh well. it's cool because it's Canadian Power but these seems like the most obvious choices. these are good but hopefully he'll have some more indie or cooler choices (Broken Social Scene, etc. Conan always has interesting musical acts on).

Posted by Anonymous | 11:43 AM |