down and out

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other than a bright spot on saturday afternoon and the fact that i did good things for my body by exercising, this was one of the worst weekends i’ve had in a long time. nothing tragic occurred, but i felt totally abandoned and alone. i didn’t see my friends for cards or dinner or anything, jeremy left for a week away, my father’s dating a hungarian woman twenty years his junior. everything just seemed to conspire to make me feel utterly sorry for myself. so i did.
i’m so glad i decided to go out on saturday to surprise col with a visit to her bookstore. it was her last day at what’s become the job from hell, and i thought it would be a nice surprise especially since we haven’t seen each other in, quite possibly, a year. then ritchie showed up and we spent several hours keeping col from doing any work, mocking her evil manager, joking with her cute coworker (oh, yes. very yummy coworker), drinking starbucks and randomly misplacing books just because we could.
i didn’t realize i’m so fucking short.
i hadn’t meant to, but i did let col abuse her employee discount on my behalf and bought three books: hey nostradamus! and all families are psychotic by douglas coupland and the trouble with islam by irshad manji. now, i think, i’m only missing one coupland for my collection. i love douglas coupland. really. i think i should marry him right after i marry kevin smith.
i think i need to move to utah.
here’s to hoping no one wants to talk to me today. it would be a bad day to try to chit-chat. put out the word, okay?

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11 Thoughts on “down and out”

  1. Tanya on March 29, 2004 at 08:03 said:

    “All families are psychotic.” I think that’s the first line of Anna Karenina. Ok, but it should be…

  2. Tanya on March 29, 2004 at 08:04 said:

    Um, and that wasn’t chit-chat. It was… um, free verse. Yep.

  3. jodi on March 29, 2004 at 08:22 said:

    i *heart* douglas too! but i have to say i didn’t dig all families that much, but i totally loved hey nostradamus– that’s the one i went to see him read at the ruminator, he’s quite funny. he’ll make a good second husband.

  4. col on March 29, 2004 at 19:13 said:

    hehe, it was fun :) glad you guys came! we’ll hang out again SOON. not a year from now!
    cute co-worker *chuckle*

  5. heather on March 29, 2004 at 20:14 said:

    he is! hrmf.

  6. fizzgig on March 29, 2004 at 23:26 said:

    that trouble with islam is an interesting read. you’ll learn some good tidbits about the internal struggle they’re having with changing some of their.. tenants. considering the countless death-threats irshad got after publishing that, you know it’s gonna have a few good digs ;)

  7. heathersak on March 29, 2004 at 23:45 said:

    my favourite douglas coupland book (he’s my favourite author) is ‘microserfs’ :) and then, ‘girlfriend in a coma’, and then… :)

  8. (that other)Heather on March 30, 2004 at 09:12 said:

    The short comment… that was added later, right?! Or am I crazy?
    (shush)
    (uh, since when was an email address required?)

  9. heather on March 30, 2004 at 09:15 said:

    editorial license!
    since i started getting crap spam anonymous posters.
    where are my cookies?

  10. (that other)Heather on March 30, 2004 at 09:32 said:

    Hmm. Somewhere between Worcester and Vancouver, no doubt.
    I had to use a special customs label because the package was over 5 pounds. Never had THAT happen before!
    Maybe customs is “inspecting” each of the girl scout cookie flavors, too?

  11. heather on March 30, 2004 at 09:37 said:

    they better not. those are MY cookies, dammit. mm, cookies.

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