it’s official: i’m old and i don’t adapt well to change (i understand they’re not mutually inclusive, but in this example, i’m fairly confident it’s a cause-and-effect relationship).
my entire week has been plagued with DST-related sleep problems. the morning comes far too early, but even though the clock says it’s bedtime, my body knows better and just won’t let me to go bed yet, which just makes the morning come all that earlier.
today’s the capper, though. i didn’t get to bed until midnight when, thanks to cramps and too much pizza for our late dinner, there wasn’t much sleeping at all. what sleep i got was very, very light. so light my sleep-talking actually woke me up. twice. as you can probably imagine, the five-thirty alarm was not a welcome visitor. i feel like complete and utter ass right now. i’m barely conscious and i have no idea how i managed to drop christopher off and get to work this morning. i do have a vague recollection of enjoying how well my new windshield wipers work, though.
yes, DST, you should go to Enumclaw and get your intestines ruptured by some hard equine anal intercourse.
on top of the exhaustion, the lunch out i was looking forward to has been rescheduled until next week. of course, that’s not such a bad thing seeing as i spent way too much money yesterday.
i left work at two (yay for having a couple hours of vacation to burn), picked up christopher, then we drove across town so he could drop off film and search for the toe-sock store he’d heard about. while wandering around granville & broadway, we passed a clothing store i just had to go in. i’m very glad i did, because i left with a beautiful vietnamese poodle skirt made by a local designer. it cost a lot more than i’d normally pay for such a piece of clothing, but i just could not say no. while i was trying things on, the owner/designer was talking to chris about the pinhole camera he was carrying and showing off the fabulous photos he has loaded on his ipod. actually, if i were worried about such things, i’d think that she was hitting on him — hard — but, i’m sure she was just interested because she had studied photography and was intrigued by his unusual apparatus.
after that effusive experience, we drove a little bit further down granville to hunt for a parking spot so we could go get christopher his sexy new shoes. truly, they are beautiful. i may be biased since they’re on his feet and they match the colour of my sofa perfectly, but i really do think they suit him to a T. at first, i was concerned they’d be too red for casual wear, but since seeing them on, i’m sure he’ll be getting a lot of excellent wear out of them.
while in the neighbourhood, we stopped into the new Urban Outfitters store all the trendy hipsters are excited about. together, we decided that it’s like Old Navy for people who listen to the Fiery Furnaces. still, they got my attention with the home decor section and, of course, the Lomos. i was this close to buying myself a fisheye2, but i reigned myself in just in the nick of time. actually, it’s probably a good thing there’s nothing in that store, except scarves, which would fit me or i’d totally have outfitted myself from head to toe before leaving. their stuff is very cute — almost too cute. cute is a very fine line to balance upon.
since the new H-Mart was on the way back to the car, we popped in to see what the fuss was all about. it’s like a mini T&T supermarket, with a much better food court. i bought a couple bags of edamame, but nothing else really stood out. i would like to go eat there one day, though. maybe before the next show at richard’s we go to…
tomorrow, i’m planning on going to lunch & a movie with my friend karen. the plan is to eat at Burgoo and then see 300. it should be a good afternoon. i’m hoping she’ll have time to come by the apartment since she hasn’t seen all the changes which have taken place. speaking of, i have two new photos framed and hung: jamie’s breathtaking photo of the electra and amanda olbrys’ luminescent self-portrait i purchased via deviantart. colene facilitated the framing by letting me abuse her work discount — thank you again, colene!
posting will be in flux for the next while as i settle on a new routine. i hope you’ve enjoyed the recent regularness, since there won’t be much of that for a while.
no prob :)
yay for urban outfitters being open! i was wonderin…
For two years in college I lived next door to Urban Outfitters. Back then they didn’t have hardly any “housewares” and they were really selling the ‘grunge’ look pretty hard. It used to be somewhat affordable. Now, about half the store is housewares and geegaws, and what clothing they do sell is like Anthropologie cast-offs and half as expensive… so, STILL expensive. It could have been the location, but I think they really cater to the dorm crowd, although my most recent visit had me really considering some plates and bowls I saw. I love the patterns and material, but they have me priced out. Still, I remember fondly ducking in on my way home from class just to see if there was anything new or on sale. Living near those kinds of stores means certain financial death.