Monday, December 01, 2008

the strength of 5 go-rillas

in the middle of the most boring morning class after 3.5 hours of sleep (holiday traffic made the drive almost twice as long as it should have been). the cats are in new orleans. i didn't sleep well because of 1) coffee 2) teen romances (damn you, stephenie meyer, with all your chuckling, rippling muscles, and smoldering eyes; you are too easy to digest when my boyfriend and i read out loud to each other, eagerly and sarcastically flapping our hands: OMG THEY'RE GOING TO PROM!).

i could make this again another new yorker style abstract of my week. but again, all i can think of is "nothing." probably this class i'm in is not helping.

the needle in my neck thing went ok. it did hurt, and it was hard to talk with a numb neck. the lump is still there though, which is disappointing.

i waaaaant to sleeeeeeeep. i can't.

i might start eating fish again, to be more healthy. i didn't realize how reliant i'd become on it for protein, and there's only so much tofu i can take. it will make me stronger. it'll be better than cookie dough, at least, the main staple of my diet the last few months. but cookie dough's brand of guilt is a different kind of guilt than hook-in-mouth-of-suffocated-creature guilt.

well, i guess i'll get back to examining the guy in front of me's computer, where he is planning his next world of warcraft character. sad!

10 comments:

Jamie said...

Edward Cullen is so tremendously hot that I can't stand it. When I read Twilight I got really excited and giggly when they went to prom.

ginny said...

I am conflicted! Half the people I know have fun reading those _Twilight_ books, and half do not! I suspect I will be in the Fun camp, versus the Not Fun, but what if I turn out to be Not Fun, and then I have wasted my brain on reading something I did not like? Actually, now that I say that, it wouldn't really be that much of a problem, would it.

ginny said...

Oh! The wordverify seemed to know what I was talking about!! It was "readersi" -- which, in Spanglish translates to "reader YES!" So I guess I _should_ read those books.

Carrie said...

It's compulsively readable, and not well written or deep. I don't know what else to say. It finally made me see what's so hot about vampires. I could picture whomever I wanted (not dumb Tom Cruise or David Boreanaz). I kind of suspect you wouldn't enjoy them, though. You have to suspend...a whole lot to buy these.

Jamie said...

The dialogue is stiff and stilted and completely un-self-conscious. The book's worldview, which places repressed sexual longing at the very core of all important and beautiful things, is silly and completely un-self-conscious. The movie is the same way. I don't know why I liked it SO MUCH!

Carrie said...

well put. and now something completely superficial: according to the previews, edward is way hotter than i envisioned. but his hair is unfortunately too ridiculously distracting. what if they ever made a movie with marcus flutie? i never pictured marcus very cute, actually. but now i'm forced to wonder: what if he's in real life (that is, movies) cuter than I imagined? i would have felt like a chump all this time feeling so confident i could sidestep his masculine wiles.

Jamie said...

Edward's hair IS ridiculous. But his carved-from-stone beauty is ridiculous to an extreme. And not funny at all. Just breath-taking

Ellen said...

I am conflicted about starting the Twilight series, too. I would probably like it, I know. The movie looks horrible, though, based on the preview.

If they ever made a movie with Marcus Flutie, I am sure I would be charmed by him, no matter what he looked like.

Carrie said...

THANK YOU JAMIE!!! This made me laugh.

You must not love me BUT I LOVE YOU but stay away BUT NOT TOO FAR AWAY let me stare at you NO I MUSTN'T but I will LET ME TOE-LOOP MY FEELINGS don't look at me EXCEPT DO I am dangerous TIME TO SPARKLE"

I am disappointed that the actress made it on there though. She is my favorite! Maybe not in that movie...but Zathura anyway. Which I highly recommend.

Carrie said...

DON'T READ THESE BOOKS! IF YOU HAVE A DAY, MAYBE READ THE FIRST ONE, BUT DO NOT READ THESE BOOKS EVER IS A BETTER IDEA. i am finally done, and i did not grow as a person at all.