it's official! muji is opening a store in america!!!! in NY of course. good grief they get all the flagship stores. damn the man. but this is a good sign. a good sign indeed. i fucking love muji! and now it won't be imported when i want to buy shit. the store is slated to open in november which is perfect because i think i'm going with alex back to philly for thanksgiving and i was planning to hop over to NY for a day to see kyla. and now to see the new muji store as well. oh holy shit! the streets will be filled with madness in NY i just realized. that whole start of the holiday season shopping stuff. gahhhhh. well whatever. anyway, i'm soooo excited!!!
today i feel a lot better. though when i first first got up i took my temp and to my surprise it was 102. i didn't feel bad though and i didn't have the chills. i'm sure it was due to a few things. now it's down to 99. more normal. i'm not out of the clear yet but at least i'm feeling better overall. just in time for alex's party!
oh yea, i'm hooked on that show dexter. alex netflix'd it and we can't stop watching the first season. we have to hurry to catch up to the new season which he is going to tivo at work and bring home. i can't believe i like that show but i do.
1 Canadian dollar = 0.997506 U.S. dollars
yes, it's true. the canucks have surpassed us. incredible. apparently it's been 31 yrs since this has happened. the point is, america is just slipping and slipping. motherfuck. i shake my head. we need to turn this ship around. i feel like i'm living in a slowly slipping downward spiral. 2008 had better see some changes or this shit is just going to get worse. how can i afford my $3+ gallon of gas with my weak ass dollar? jesus christ.
in another news. i'm sure most people already know, but mark ecko bought barry bonds' record-breaking 756th homerun ball for over $752,000. he then put up this website to ask the public to vote on it's fate. bestow it (keep it in tact and send it to the hall of fame), brand it (brand it with an asterisk and send it to the hall of fame), or banish it (send it to outer space). the votes came in, and branding it prevailed. when i learned of this, i can't tell you HOW happy i was with this decision. i know i'm so unlikely to even be saying this but ever since this whole barry bonds steroid scandal came to play years ago i've been hoping he wouldn't break hank aaron's record. and when he did, i was like well fuck. there it is. tarnished record right there. so to me, this asterisk is oh so fitting. i know many disagree. i don't care. to each his own. but the fact that mark ecko, someone i like never even think of because i don't like hip hop clothing, decided to do this is awesome. barry bonds called him stupid and an idiot. that's just barry is a fucking asshole in my world. hopefully the hall isn't just fucking with mark and when he hands them the branded ball they don't just turn it on it's other side so the asterisk can't be seen. but i'm sure mulit-millionaire mark wouldn't let that sort of thing happen. he has lawyers for that.
not much to speak of my ailments today. all is sort of just running it's course it seems. i feel better(ish) on the whole though again, all relative. i've learned to live with a constant headache and such. it's just not fun. but last night i woke up at 4am randomly and i felt really good. no fever AT ALL. however i think the reason i woke up was because i had SWEAT THROUGH MY CLOTHES AND THE SHEETS!!! like it looked like i came out of the stellastarr* tent during coachella 2004. haha (some of you will get that!) the entire back of my shirt and pants were just soaked through wet with sweat which is entirely disgusting. and the sheets on the bed had this lovely wet imprint of my body on them. i mean wtf? i hope this is a sign of getting better. considering at that point i had no fever and it was past the time which i would need more meds. but yea, man that was a trip. i've never seen such a thing. i think many days ago i said "i haven't been this sick in like 5 years." i'd like to change that to "i have never been this sick ever."
in other, more positive news, i found a girl online who will letterpress my business cards for a very reduced rate for me. it's awesome! she said she needs some more work and she can clump my order with this other person's so she's gonna do mine for a reduced rate. that rocks because letterpress is a beautiful craft and it's also very pricey. i have thought about doing my cards in letterpress twice now but every time the price is always so high that i shelve the idea. but now it's finally happening! i mean it's still sort of pricey but it's doable. it's in my price range. i'll get less cards but that's ok. it's totally worth it. this reminds me of the scene in american psycho when they all whip out their business cards. although none of those were letterpress but still. the idea of fawning over such things. and yes i do. i own books on this sort of shit. no joke.
well, i lied. this thing ISNT coming to a close AT ALL. my temp spiked again in the middle of the night and then also in the morning. so i went back to the doctor. of course not MY doctor because she NEVER has openings. jesus fucking christ. but i saw a lovely woman in her office and i might actually make her my primary after all this shit is taken care of. i quite liked her and she seems to be more available. that's key. what's the use of a goddamn doctor if you can see them? you never gain any history. i've seen my actual primary twice i believe. twice in like 3 yrs or something. the rest has been seeing other doctors, specialists, or going to urgent care. ugh. anyway....
this new doc was world's of help. she was really thorough which is awesome. after checking me out she was like, "well, you really might just have whatever virus is going around. it's not flu season yet but that doesn't mean there aren't viruses spreading every month. however given the fact that you've been sick for so long and your symptoms haven't subsided, i want to explore other things just in case." BINGO! that's what i wanted to hear....so she took some blood from me which won't be ready til next week and she took a urine sample and a chest x-ray. man that x-ray lady was HILARIOUS. i'm not sure she realizes that she is, but she is. anyway that turned out fine. no peumonia. but the urine was another story. turns out i have a kidney infection. wtf? how did i get a kidney infection? well the doc said "it's hard to say. i chalk it up to women's organs being placed very awkwardly." so she thinks that the infection might be the cause of this whole thing OR it might be that plus me getting sick from like lawrence or whatever. the point is, she gave me antibiotics to take for the next 10 days. so hopefully this will do the trick. usuallly antibiotics take hold after a few days so i'm hoping i will be well for alex's party! however i probably won't be well to see the national tomorrow night with him. which is so sad because he was really looking forward to taking me to that. but what can ya do?
i also noticed a pattern in my sickness since it's been so long now. i've been taking my tylenol every 6 hrs but after the 5th hour i start to get chills which then makes me cold so i have to bundle up and that lasts and hour and then by the 6th hour the chills stop but the fever is really high. like 103ish. so no more of that. taking meds every 4.5 hrs to hopefully curb this. because hell, having chills followed by a 103 fever is FUCKING HELL. especially when it happens like a few times a day. i just noticed it this time around so i'm sitting here waiting for the tylenol to do it's thing. i'm starting to really know my body well. i bet in about 15 min the fever will be back down to like 100. at least i hope!
ok so i think this thing might be coming to a close. i hope i hope. after my battle last night i didnt get to sleep til probably nearly 6am. and then alex woke me up to take my temp before he left for work and in doing so i think it sort of disturbed my sleep pattern, exposed me to the coldness of the room and thus started a near repeat of the early morning prior. chills for an hour. followed by high fever. but finally the fever subsided midday and it's been down ever since. AND this is the time when it would spike again. so maybe i'm in the clear somewhat. i think i'll be returning to work tomorrow fully armed with meds and thermometer just in case. if a relapse should start to occur i must be ready!
yes it's 4:43am when i'm writing this. i can't sleep. i have been up for hours. i woke up around 2ish feeling cold. so i turned off the overhead fan and put some socks on. didn't work. the shakes began. they continued for at least an hour. they were relentless. i started to have gas pains a bit (sorry i know, sort of gross) so i drank a bit of ginger ale with the hopes of making me burp. went to the bathroom. after a somewhat ridiculous ordeal, the gas pains subsided. shakes were still a bit present though. so i went back to bed and really compressed more core. i realized the shakes seemed to be eminating from my chest area. so i tightened up a lot in that area and sort of burned them out. made my core warmer than my outside. but then i felt really hot. i took my temp. 103 again. UGH. this flu is relentless. so i took a tylenol. wasn't really on schedule but i had to get a way to reduce this fever. it seems like i took the pill hours ago but really it was about 45 min ago. i still feel warm. i decided that when this happened earlier i took the meds and laid down but that never really helped. sitting up seemed to work. so now i'm sitting up blogging and drinking water. hoping this fever will die down and i can go back to sleep. or maybe i can't sleep because i'm not tired. i have been laying in bed for literally 2 days straight with breaks to merely go to the bathroom or the kitchen. the body can only rest so much. rick would beg to differ, but my body can only sleep so much. so i wait. i will take my temp at 5am. i hope it will have gone down at least a point. we'll see. i want to get fucking better. this shit is terrible. i suppose this is what i get for not getting the flu in like 5 years. though i did have an amazing share of colds last winter. that wasn't too hot. though the cold is so much better than the flu. at least i can do shit. go to work. not be bedridden. the flu is debilitating really. and it's a tricky motherfucker. just when you think you are on the upswing (ie, earlier today and right before bed...shit i felt fucking great!) the goddamn flu just pulls you back down. fucker.
the flu continues to plague me. i was feeling pretty decent during the day. relatively speaking of course. and then my fever spiked around 7pm. it went back to 103!! ugh.... i felt like ASS. but now i'm starting to feel a bit better again. it comes in waves. i ate some more food today which is good because i'm weak as shit and i probably lost some weight too. i had some chicken for protein cuz i was totally NOT get any of that from my bread, water, and soup....one more day at home i think and i should be back to work. i hope they aren't pissed off. i mean they shouldn't be but who the fuck knows. though a company that gets mad for you being sick and missing 3 days is probably not a very good company right?
the hell continues but at least it's better. better being the appropriate word there since better is only relative and relative to a 103 temp with cold sweats can be a lot of things. i still have a horrible headache, bodyaches, lack of appetite, and my temp is around 99 or 100. so i'm not out of the woods yet. i want to sleep more but hell, i've been sleeping for like 24 hrs on and off. it's hard to keep sleeping. so i take breaks from sleep and tool around on the internet on my laptop in bed. i've been staying at alex's this whole time and luckily he hasn't gotten sick yet.
oh! and something random i forgot to mention for last night. after going to the doctor i went to rite aid to get some meds and then to ralphs to get some bread and such and i saw this guy there. his name escapes me and i actually tried to see if i had blogged about him because i remember a distinct moment when kyle visited me back in 2004 and this guy was working at ralphs during the huge supermarket strike. he was one of the temp workers except that meant he was working there for months. and everytime i went there he would chat with me a lot. i got this weird vibe like maybe he was interested. but i could never really tell. he was just really friendly and chatty. and i thought maybe that was because he wasn't actually a checker and didn't care if he held up the line chatting with some girl. or if he was interested. anyway, once the strike was over he of course, stopped working there and i saw him once since then. he was with some chick down one of the aisles making out with her. wtf?? haha that was like probably a year after the strike. well last night i saw him. but at first he didn't see me. but then as i was checking out my stuff, he looked over and saw me and smiled. and i smiled back. and then he sort of walked on but looked back and smiled again. i guess he also remembers my face. how hilarious. that or he's just a smiley person. but the double look and smile. i dunno, i think it's recognition. but it's hard to say because my face recognition is so good that i have a hard time figuring out if it's been too long to remember a person's face or not. because i mean i remember faces of people from ridiculous amounts of years ago. people i barely knew too. but that's because that part of my brain is really turned ON. if only i could use that for good somehow....hahaha
the day from hell is coming to a close.
alex came over to bring me some lunch which i ate very little of. then i took some more meds and slept some more. i did a TON of on and off sleeping throughout the day and had myself so bundled that i felt hot at some points. i felt pretty good around like 4 or 5pm but then around 6 i started to feel crappy again. took some more meds and at 6:30 alex came home and took my temp and it was over 102. so we promptly went to urgent care where the doc checked me out and my temp was over 103. i felt HORRIBLE. but he seemed to not be that concerned. like to me a 103 temp is BAD NEWS but he didn't seem to think so. he said that there aren't too many things that cause such a high temp. the main two are strep throat and the flu. he took a strep throat test and it came out negative. so then he took a culture but that won't be ready for a few days. he doesn't think it's strep because my throat doesn't hurt at all and my glands are barely swollen. he think it's probably just the flu. i agree. after all, lawrence was sick all weekend and it sounds like i have what he had. he never took his temp but he had the headaches, bodyaches, cold sweats, etc. i just can't believe how high my temp got. 103+ goddamn. seriously, i haven't been THIS sick in ages. like a fever this high. i'm going to stay home from work again tomorrow and hope to get better to go to work wednesday. the doc said i'm still quite contagious so i don't want to spread my shit to everyone at work. i hope i'm not making alex sick. he's trying to stay away and wash his hands alot and such but he also wants to take care of me. i just hope he's not sick for his birthday this weekend. that would suck.
i feel like death right now. i think i caught what lawrence has though i'm not sure if he had it this bad. it just happened so suddenly. i was coming home from drawing class and i started to feel a bit unwell. so i went home and took a nap. then i begrudgingly did 4 huge loads of laundry which i think made me overexert myself. i started to feel a bit worse at that point. temperature was at 99. so i went to alex's and he gave me soup and OJ and sprite and i just laid in bed. i took some tylenol and went to bed around 11ish. but then i woke up at like 2:45am feeling like death had taken over me. my temp was 101 and i had the cold sweats and all that. UGH. i haven't had it this bad in years. that's a good thing i suppose. so i took more meds at 3:15am and tried to sleep but i couldn't because my stomach hurt. i had vomited up the soup a bit earlier. so i laid in bed tossing and turning and at 4:15am i said fuck it and forced myself to puke some more which made me feel better but then the little hangy ball thingy in the back of my mouth was swollen. it's less swollen now so i'm not sure if it swelled due to forceful puking. i'm going to try and make it to the doc or urgent care later. so i went back to sleep and the fever broke miraculously! i woke up at like 6:30am and felt way better. no chills and whatnot. i couldn't really sleep for a bit and alex woke up around 7:15. so i was up wanting to take more meds but my stomach was totally empty. so i didn't. but alex has no crackers. the one thing i want more than anything right now. crackers....so i emailed work to tell them i was not coming in and i went back to sleep. but then around 9ish i felt terrible again. probably because i had no meds. my temp went back to 101. so i forced myself to eat a bit of soup and took some meds. and now here i am, sweating like a big in the bed and hoping my temp went down. alex is coming over with some food and such so i will check it then. i hope it breaks again. i want to go to the doc but right now i feel so weak i can't really bring myself to drive the 1/2mile. ugh.....seriously, it's been YEARS since i've been this sick. i think i recall the last time i had it this bad. it was senior year and michael almost took me to the doctor. but it was literally the 24 hr flu and i felt fine the next day. i hope that happens again this time. i cant be missing work. i have a ton of shit to do. ugh.
sitting at home waiting to see simian mobile disco and boys noize with james. he told me to get to his house at 7:30 but that was too early so i came back and decided to watch electroma since it's just a little over an hour. perfect to fit into the excess time i had. i just watched it and i don't even really know what to say. i was SOOOOOO excited to see it ages and ages ago and totally crushed when i didn't get into the theater because of all the goddamn hipsters. my coworker downloaded it but i couldn't watch it because i needed a couple of codecs. so i finally installed those and watched it. man, it's weird. it's TOTALLY artsy. like i mean, it's definitely not for everyone. there's no dialogue and the music is very scattered. so there's long sequences of silence. most of the time the two guys are just walking around. it has some weird and unexpected moments that i won't say because some people might still want to see it. i guess overall i think it could have been worse for what it was, but i definitely wouldn't say i liked it either. it's not exactly visually stunning. it's just visual. you feel slight pity for the robots though you don't really have a reason to per se. and there is one shot that is quite clever and i'm not sure i would have gotten it if i hadn't happened to read an article about the movie. so in short, would i recommend it? eh, i mean if you have like 70 min to spare, sure why not? especially if you have a free copy of it like i do. but don't go busting down doors to see it. cuz most likely at the end you'll be sort of like "hmmm....was that worth my time? i don't really know."
ok so i was going to start off with saying how awesome across the universe is since i saw it last night but i have to get to more pressing (ie, pressing on my mind) things first.
so AFI is doing this 40th anniversary screening event at the arclight. they are showing 11 films in one night and each film is introduced by either the star or the director. so me and my crew wanted to see one flew over the cuckoo's nest because good ole jack was presenting it. so i needed to nab 8 tickets. ok so on the AFI 10th anni site in the FAQ section it says:
Tickets can be purchased through AFI.com or in person at the ArcLight Hollywood Box Office from 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 midnight.
now to me that means tickets are going on sale at 11:30am. not, the arclight box office opens for ticket sales at 11:30am. and even if that's the case then why when i tried to buy tickets and they were sold out did it say:
Sorry, there are not that many tickets available via web sales. There may still be limited seats available through the theater box office (open from 11am to 11pm daily).
that's coming from the arclight website itself. so the times are all fucked up. regardless, tickets went on sale at the AFI site at 8:30am and we missed out. i got to work at 9am. i was thoroughly pissed off and how poorly constructed this all was. i mean if tickets are going to go on sale at NOT 11:30am on the website, they should have made that more clear. two sentences. a clarifier. something people. something.....furthermore, the sentence wasn't even correct anyway since it said 11:30am and the arclight site said 11am.
so i called AFI to ask if there were more tickets and explain how i thought all of this was unclear and unfair and the woman was a total BITCH to me. fucking hell. i mean i know it's early but we don't have to start the day with that sort of tone do we? i guess we do. so that even made me more pissed off. i mean i didn't NEED to see this screening by any means. but the fact that their website was totally misleading AND the woman was a bitch to me, just pissed me off even more. so i had to let the world know of my disgruntlement.
ok moving on to happiness....across the universe was FANTASTIC! everything i expected it to be. i read that script nearly 2 yrs ago back when i was at the infamous movie poster company. back then it didn't have a title and hadn't even gone into production. but i recall reading it and LOVING it. everyone was saying how they felt the songs just flowed right into the dialogue and fit in so well. i feel like a lot of times in musicals people just sort of break out into song and it fits to a certain extent but not necessarily that well. but these songs fit so well like 95% of the time. and all from the same band! i mean that's just impressive in it's own right. then coupled with crazy visuals and hilarious guest appearances, this movie really took me for a ride. it was awesome. some of the scenes were choreographed SO WELL. i don't really like musicals but this one was done really well. and yea some of the songs weren't sung the best but it was ok. it wasn't like anything was overly out of key or anything.
the one problem i had with the movie was it's length. it was 131min which is pretty damn long. and it felt that long because some scenes were too long or just unnecessary. i think it could have been cut down to like 100 or 110min and worked even better. but other than that i thought it was great. it's sad that it's getting such lukewarm reviews. people seem to either love it or hate it. and i guess i can see how that would be. some people find it cheesy and over the top. though i mean that's what musicals ARE. people don't sing and dance in the streets in real life. of course it's over the top. and some people hate the beatles so they don't like the songs. well clearly this movie isn't for you then. and some people LOVE the beatles so much they think the renditions of the songs are a mockery. which i don't think is the case. and some people don't like anti-war propaganda type films and to that i say, yea this movie is about that in one sense but it's also about people coming together for a cause and that spanning the "universe." the vietnam war was just the vehicle for this because the beatles were thriving at that time period. and how can you deny that the songs were so perfectly placed? i mean shit, at least give some credit for that. even if you hate the music, can't stand the visuals, and think the whole thing is cheesy, at least (in your oh so scathing review mr. reviewer man) mention the fact that the songs are seamlessly placed. or maybe these people who hate it, hate it so much they couldn't even see that. oh well. sucks to be you.
this is a new bottle from evian. the palace bottle. it's available in bougie restaurants....it has a special pourer and coaster to catch condensation. it's ridiculously over the top. see below:
the palace pourer
to complement the palace bottle, evian created a line of unique serving accessories. the palace pourer is the first of its kind for bottled water and delivers on both form and function. designed with the input of leading restaurateurs and sommeliers, this elegant serving accessory ensures a smooth pouring flow and elevates the serviec of water to a heightened level of sophistication.
the palace coaster
attention to detail is critical to the ultimate dining experience. that's why evian created a custom coaster to complete the new palace bottle water experience. cast in stainless-steel, the coaster is engraved with the evian logo on one side and the story of evian natural spring water on the other side. this coaster perfectly accents the bottle's stunning silhouette and provides the table with an elegant finishing touch.
ridiculous huh? the new bottle experience?? i mean COME ON here people. it's a fucking bottle of water. the thing is, in some sick and twisted way, i totally think evian water is better than other waters on the shelf, with the exception of fiji water which i think is as good as evian. why do i think this? why do i hold evian above the rest? marketing. it's all marketing. i've been brainwashed into thinking this water is better. i mean i do feel that this special bottle is ridiculously over the top, but at the core, i still think evian is a superior bottled water. and i KNOW full well that this is ridiculous and stupid. i totally know this. yet whenever i'm buying a bottle of water, i think, "should i get the evian? should i spring for that $0.30 extra?"
i'm not really sure how evian has done this, but they have managed to fool me into thinking they are better. and i know i'm not the only one. laurel agrees with me. though she also agrees that this palace™ bottle is ridiculous. yet, we also think that it is an attractive bottle. haha but nevertheless, it's JUST WATER. i took a look through evian's site at their product line. it's mostly filled with various bottles of water. plain water, just different sizes of bottles. glass vs. plastic. case of 6, case of 24, etc etc. but what struck a nerve with laurel was the PET water. yes PET water. bottled water for your pets. nothing different. just packaged smaller. also the evian facial spray atomizer. it's just water and nitrogen. and it's like $4 for a tiny bottle. INSANE!!!! it's just water people. fancy packaging and plain mineral water to spray on your face when you are hot or whatever. see now that shit i don't buy. literally or figuratively. my mind does not think that is any better than anything else. it's just pure absurdity is what it is.
so alex and i went to play tennis last night. there are a bunch of courts on la cienega and you can reserve them for an hour at a time. so we went after work. now mind you, i LOVE tennis but i haven't played it outside of P.E. in high school. so i basically can't really play to save my life. but i love the sport. it's probably my second favorite to football to be quite honest. so alex and i got some cheap rackets and balls and went out to play. this went marginally well. i mean we hit ball back and forth but by no means we were really playing a proper game. but that was ok with me. i think was slightly frustrated at my lack of skills but what can ya do? i blame my mother who never let me play any sports because she thought i'd get hurt. this is why i can't rollerskate, play tennis, ski, snowboard, or ride a bike (to name a few). yes, i can't ride a bike. i used to when i was a wee kiddie but i since have lost the ability. and no it doesn't come back to you. at least it didn't for me. though i think if i fiddled around on a bike for a couple hours in an empty parking lot i could do it. but i've never tried. i think stacey is on par with me with this stuff. our urban upbringings and scared mothers have resigned us to a life of lacking basic sports skills. sad, sad indeed. anyway, tennis (or rather hitting the ball back and forth 75% of the time) was fun and we're gonna do it again. it can definitely be a workout and i commend the tennis players out there in the world.
things are finally cleared up. literally and figuratively.
today i went to the ENT and they got my wax out. they didn't do the flush method because apparently that way isn't as good as the suction method. water can get trapped in your ear and lead to an infection if your ear isn't fully flushed. but the suction method is just as it sounds. the woman stuck a thin, long metal tip into my ear and it was attached to a vacuum-like device which then sucked out my wax! it took less than 2 minutes and was totally painless and awesome. woo! i'll be going back and getting that done about 2 times a year for sure.
on the figurative note, i finally found out what is wrong with my car! sadly, it's a costly fix. $750 costly. UGH. my goddamn acura and it's goddamn pricey repairs. luckily what's wrong isn't a big deal in terms of the car's performance. so i don't need to get it done right this second. thankfully. i shall gather some more cash and do it in about a month i think. i am once again convinced that AA's god fucking awful parking lot is the cause of this. i mean both these things and my rack and pinion are both exposed parts at the bottom of the car. easily FUCKED UP by me driving over bricks, uneven gravel, and god knows what else in that fucking parking lot. UGH. so this is $1500 of repairs in like half a year. fuck you AA parking lot. fuck you asshole owner who won't spring to re-pave the parking lot.
i have such rage. it's really terrible. most likely stemmed from the bottled up road rage i endure everyday on that goddamned 101. it's amazing how much i can bitch about that freeway without the bitching ever really having much to do with the amount of traffic. it's just directed towards the ASSHOLE drivers. today i channeled that rage in the form of yelling at a security guard in hollywood.
so they were filming something on hollywood blvd. i hate when they do that because it fucks up my entrance to my gym. but whatever. i just go around. so i parked and decided to walk over to the AA to check out this dress i've been eying. so i'm crossing the street and i hit the corner right before the store. i mean literally the store is 3 down from the corner. i'm stopped by this woman.
security woman: you can't go down here.
me: what? (baffled because i know the stores are open and i see signs saying "stores open during filming."
security woman: you can't go down there. they are filming. if you want you can cross the street and go down that way.
me: but i'm just going to the AA right there. (pointing at it. hell i could spit at it, it was that close)
security woman: (to another man trying to walk past her) you can't go down here.
man: WHAT? i'm just going to the baja fresh. (which is literally ON THE CORNER. 5ft away from where we were standing)
security woman: you can't go down there. they are filming. you can't get in the shot.
TOOTHLESS security man: they're filming so you can't go down there.
me: but there are people walking towards us, COMING FROM THERE.
security woman: yeah, well they shouldn't be.
me: are you fucking kidding me? i just want to go right there. i won't get in the shot. the shot's down there. i see it. people are walking towards us and ARE NOT IN THE SHOT.
TOOTHLESS security man: yea well the people down there aren't doing their job properly.
me: are you fucking kidding me? (looking at all the other stopped pedestrian's behind me) can you believe this? i mean we aren't even close to the shot.
fellow male pedestrian: well if it was just me (he was with a kid) i'd just walk on by her....
at this point i contemplated the idea of just walking past the security guards because what are they going to do? run after me? i highly doubt that. and i'd be in the store in 2 seconds anyway. but i didn't walk past them. i stood there arms crossed pissed the fuck off.
me: are you fucking kidding me? i can't believe this. we aren't going to get in the shot. how long will this take?
TOOTHLESS security man: probably 10 minutes.
me: TEN MINUTES? (thinking in my head that i'd be in and out of AA in less than 5 and i have to stand here waiting TEN FUCKING MINUTES?)
so i not-so-patiently waited.
TOOTHLESS security man: they're done.
me: done? (and i start bolting toward the AA.)
security woman: stop. you can't go down there.
but i was already off and into the store. i didn't turn back. fuck that shit.
now many would definitely say i was being disrespectful to the "law" or whatever. though these people were not cops so this wasn't really the "law" we were dealing with per se. they were hired security guards. and why should i wait for no good reason? it'd have been one thing if NO ONE was walking where i was going to walk and i might possibly ruin the shot. cuz i wouldn't want to do that. but when assloads of tourists are just walking right on toward me passing the AA, why should i stand around waiting because some dumb ass woman told me to? jesus fucking christ. if i had wanted to go to the baja fresh like that one man, i'd have just walked right through them. i mean we were standing in front of of the goddamn place. man i was so angry. i need to control my rage though. i'm going to get in trouble one day.
on another lighthearted note. i had my very first laugh til i cry moment at my new job. one of the guys was fucking around with another guy's computer and basically got it so zoomed in that when the guy returned to his computer all he saw was a huge cursor arrow. he had NO idea what was going on and started trying to figure it out. but the guy also set it so anything he moused over would have a computer voice speak out the action. so things like "finder open," "photoshop" and "close window" were coming out of the speakers. the guy was so baffled it was fucking hilarious. i was crying. finally after like 5 minutes of him futzing around we told him the command to zoom out. but then he encountered an inverted color desktop. it looked like a virus. and yet again he was thoroughly confused. it was so hilarious. i mean if that happened to me i would have just given up and forced the guy to fix it but not this guy. he persevered. it was so hilarious. you had to be there. it's just too hard to explain in words.
so i was driving to work this morning and i happened to hear "free fallin" on the radio. you know, the fun little ditty by tom petty. and all of a sudden i was transported back to to 1992 (or was it '93?). it's funny how songs do that to ya huh? it was like instantaneous. i was sitting in my car going down highland when i heard that song and all of a sudden i felt like i was back on the cruise ship in antarctica. the ship i was on was very small and the crew and passengers were very intimate. so there was a talent show one night because it just so happened a ton of people on board were musicians and such. and i recall one of the guys that worked on the ship, geoff, sang "free fallin." i also recall having a crush on him. now i wish i could remember exactly how he looked because i'm pretty sure i would not think he was cute now. but young, impressionable mind, thought many older guys i met on trips were cute. like when i went to vietnam and thought the cruise director was hot. his name was tim. tall, thin, white guy. geoff was a stocky, blondish white guy. and it got me thinking about all the guys i thought were cute when i was like aged 10-13 or so. my taste was odd i do believe. ah well. a little trip down memory lane for this early AM.
the weekend itself was not very eventful. i didn't really do much. watched blades of glory on netflix which i thought was fucking hilarious. i loved that shit so much. i went to my drawing class yesterday which was interesting. the entire class was full of women except one guy. the lone man, kevin. the people ranged from my age to senior citizens. hobbyists, career-changers, and people like me who are designers that want to enhance their craft. the teacher has a different method of teaching she said so the class should be prove to be interesting. i have homework which is something i haven't had in ages. it's very odd but to be in a class and taking instruction rather than being at work and taking "instruction" (ie, notes from the client or my AD).
thank god it's friday. this was the longest short week ever. ugh. all because of my ear!!! so sad. my goddamn wax-filled ear. today it was giving me so much grief that i had to go lay down in my car. i've been using these drops that are supposed to soften the wax and help remove it but i swear to god they get trapped in my ear or something because my ear will feel ever more full and blocked than before i put the damn drops in! consequently i couldn't concentrate to save my life and i my ear had so much pressure the only thing i could think to do was laid down in my car and take a nap during lunch. so i did. i sacrificed getting a proper meal for an hour long nap. it helped a lot so it was totally worth it but i barely had any lunch which was ok up until i was starving like a madwoman coming home from the bar.
today was my boss' last day with the company so we all went out to this bar down the street. it was nice to see my new cohorts drinking. some more than others. i learned a bit more about certain people and met some spouses. though many of the married with children had to go home early. and they also spoke of fixing their homes. always fixing something. i ask again why do i want to be married, with kids and own a home? it just means i have to leave functions early to cook dinner with my husband, tuck my little one into bed, and get ready for the day at home depot finding the right tiles to redo the bathroom floor. umm no thanks. hahaha anyway, bar outing was good. and then i rushed home to eat some food. and now here i am.
last night i met with this guy about his cd package that i'm doing. i'm not really designing it per se. just sort of laying it out how they want it. i'm the production artist on this and i don't really care cuz it's like half a computer's worth of cash so that's fine by me. but i was out late meeting the guy. the band is the band who sings the "fucking" version of the song in old school. i'm sure you guys know who i'm talking about. anyway, that's nearly done thank god. i just want to get paid and get ready to buy my new computer!
ok, so this is kind of gross. i have always had an earwax problem. ever since i was a little kid and my parents took me to my pediatrician because they thought i might have a hearing problem since i guess i didn't respond to them as well as a kid should. turned out i just had a crapload of earwax in my ear. haha well this problem has continued on throughout the years and plagued me really. sometimes i feel like the wax is building up a lot and when i wear my headphones it bothers me. i finally tried an earwax removal kit some months back only to realize that i totally did it wrong and thusly gave myself the worst earache i've ever had in my life.
this brings us to now. i've had an ear problem for the past week now. my right ear has been heavily clogged up. i didn't know if it was wax, congestion, water, or just a plain ole ear infection. i waited a few days to see if it would go away. if it wasn't an infection i thought it might clear itself up. i took a bunch of sudafed to no avail. so i finally just said fuck it, i need to go to a doctor. but getting an appt on such short notice was not really possible. so i decided to trudge over to urgent care. i say trudge because waiting for urgent care really shows you the degradation of our healthcare system. regardless, at least i knew a doctor would see me before the night was through. so i waited and waited and finally the doc took me. i told him the situation and he took a look. no ear infection, just a massive blockage of earwax. so much so that it's gotten harder and stuck in my ear canal blocking nearly all of it. this is why i can't really ear and it feel plugged. LOVELY......but i figured he could remove it. irrigate it. nope. too hard. he said it wouldn't work most likely and that i should first use eardrops to soften the wax for a few days and then either irrigate it myself or have my doc do it. blargh. my goddamn earwax problem.
so i got the eardrops and tried this out. the drops are like this gooey substance that you drop into your ear and let it sit there for a few minutes. i did it to both ears since i figured my left ear probably needed it too. well the left ear, over the course of a couple hours, had some leakage. i guess the substance did what it should and sort of loosened the wax and it drips a bit here and there. yea i know, gross. but it's not really that much. it just sounds really gross. but my right ear, nothing came out. that's cuz it's all trapped and hard. i have to use the drops for days to see results. lovely. i am going to see if i can get my doc to irrigate my ears in a few days though i don't know if i can get an appt. i hope so. if not i'll try and do it myself. but goddamn, how nasty is that? my entire ear canal is blocked with wax. so gross. i hate having an earwax problem. so fucking nasty. and this time it's just a pain in the ass. at least i don't have an infection i guess. though part of me is like, if it was just an infection i'd get some meds and it'd go away. this i have to baby the wax til it decides it will come out. meanwhile it sits there plugging my ear, preventing me from hearing properly, and just bugging the shit out of me. grrrrr.....
and you know what else bugs the shit out of me? the goddamn 101 freeway. i feel like i aught to write a daily post just on that. every day it's something different. some new way that a car pisses me off. yesterday it was a BMW going like 90 on the freeway, changing lanes right behind and thusly comingthisclose to sideswiping my ass. motherfucker. today it was me merging onto the 101 in hollywood which means merges on the leftmost lane up a hill. therefore it's a slow process and that's why they dedicate like a mile to it and allow the people merging to take their time to get their car up to speed. the lane also has a solid white line bordering it so that technically no one can cross it. well today some fucking asshole comes up behind me and starts tapping the horn like "come on buddy, i wanna switch into your lane. go faster!" well "fuck you asshole. i'm merging up a hill trying to break 60. DEAL."
ughhhhhhhh
MOTHERFUCK IT'S HOT. ughhhhhh....i'm so irritable right now. i haven't slept well in days. DAYS people!!! it's just been so fucking hot that i toss and turn and itch and scratch all fucking night. it's been 90s-100s for at least a week now i swear and it's supposed to cool down at the end of the week. so help me god. jesus fucking christ i can't stand this. i mean ok. it's one thing if it was just hot when i went outside where the heat resides. but when the heat starts to invade my house, that's when it gets fucking nasty. at least at work we have proper AC. i can only imagine how my old coworkers must be feeling. that office is probably as hot as my room. and my room is like a goddamn sauna. my fans don't do shit for me. and i feel bad because i'm so mean to alex. he tries to hug me and shit and i'm just like NOT having it. i can't. it's too hot. another person's hot limbs touching mine? no way jose. ugh. anyway, i think i could rant for ages about this but it's just pointless, so i'll stop. suffice to say, it's FUCKING HOT IN LA. be thankful you live elsewhere if you do.
it's so weird. recently i've been seeing all these guys i haven't seen in ages. first started with dominic in seattle. i mean it had been like 3 or 4 yrs since i last saw him i think. then it was john at sunset junction. that had been at least a year since i saw him sail through my office. then joe the other night. though it had only been a few months, it feels like it's been ages. and then just last night i saw josh. josh from the band. i haven't seen him in like a year. i think the last time was right when alex and i first started dating because i remember telling him about alex in the car. josh and i used to hang out a lot. i mean at one point we were hooking up so yea but then after all that ended years and years ago, we still used to just go out and late night coffees and snacks. that ended over a year ago as we both started dating people regularly. we used to hang out when we were single without anything to do. and now not so much. sad. but i saw him randomly at hollywood video. it's funny because i went to ralphs first and as i entered ralphs i contemplated walking over to hollywood video first but said fuck it, i'll just drive over. and thankfully i did because otherwise i wouldn't have seen josh! he looks the same. isn't in the same band anymore though. he's got a new gf who i had never met and they live down in koreatown. we have to hang out soon and catch up. for sure.
today it is blisteringly hot as it has been for like a week now. temps in the mid 90s and not breaking anytime soon it seems. yesterday i went out for lunch and being that i work at the beginning of "the valley" it was fucking hot as balls. at least 105 in the heat i'm sure. UGH it was a pain. at least we have AC. those poor fuckers down at my old office are sitting in baking heat because there is NO AC in the office. only on one side. meanwhile the fucking graphics kids got another AC duct installed. thank god i don't work there anymore or i know i'd just start screaming and shouting. that or pass out from heat exhaustion.
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