it's been a weird week, my desert rose.

I am rediscovering the fine art of doing nothing and of napping then eating and playing video games. not writing nor working on projects nor cleaning my apartment nor getting devon's birthday package together, but really almost nothing. this is the weird thing, though: the more I relax, the more I feel myself becoming abrasive and unlikeable. unfortunately, because of my state, I'm far too relaxed to counteract these measures so I just generally sigh and make mean faces at people. my guard is resting! the demon of surliness is waking!

but a woman at work is teaching me cross-stitching. I need devon to come over so we can watch M*A*S*H and cross-stitch and drink hot tea and she can just ignore the surl. [Is surl a word? no.]

in case you didn't catch it in the entry that I deleted (in a surly demonic manner), White did not wed Chad of GAP fame, but a fellow who works in sheetrock or something.

another weird thing-- last night I watched four movies! four! I haven't watched that many movies in a week since New Year's in Toronto. these are the movies I watched:

1. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. A martial arts spoof, self-indulgent but funny in places. worth seeing once. annnnd, okay. I would watch it again. and I totally laughed out loud at the part where Master Pain gets bo-staffed repeatedly in the groin.

2. Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave. An actual martials arts film which, oddly, does not involve Bruce Lee in any way. Funny, if you're surrounded by people adept at MST3King a bad martial arts film. which I was.

3. Gremlins 2! oh my god, I forgot how much I like Gremlins movies. the acting in this movie is terrible overall, with the exception of brilliant bit roles by John Glover as a opportunistic but loveable entrepeneur and Christopher Lee as a genetic scientist. and also Gizmo! c'mon, people! he's so furry with big ears and little bity feet, and he walks around and stuff. there's one part where Christopher Lee has to "struggle" with him.

4. okay, this one wasn't a movie, but it was several episodes of the truly, truly excellent Japanese cartoon called Naruto. which is awesome, and I-- being suprememly predictable-- love Gaara. like, I haven't been this excited about a character in a long time. I made a livejournal icon, even. It's replacing messianic!Hermione. Gaara! more will follow about all that, I'm sure.

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another weird thing. tonite christina is sleeping on the sofa in the living room and she, asleep, said, "Here it is. Erin, here it is." And I, on the computer, turned and said, "what?" and saw that she was sleeping. I went over to her and she kept saying, "here, here it is."

"What is it, baby?"

She picked up the remote control from the floor next to the sofa and held it out to me. (She was still asleep.) "The submarine."

"The Submarine?"

She laughed. "Noooo . . no, it's not a submarine." I took the remote control from her and she, laughing, said, "It's a train." Then collapsed back onto her pillow.

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now I must go. what with the napping and all.

love to my love affairs,

--A.