Yes Is A World

Can I do 2 bulleted posts in a row? Of course!

• This is my first Weds off, in like, forever. I kind of don’t know what do with myself.
• After work we went shopping at a new Food Co Op which was a little scary because I am a creature of habit and am not a member of the co op and I was a little afraid they’d yell at me or something, but it turns out that it’s just a super expensive organic grocery store. My little veggie heart did flutter at all the possibilities. But I managed to only buy products that were on sale, so my wallet also fluttered at the final cost.
• I had veggie hot dogs for dinner. On whole wheat. My family would cry if they could see me now. [insert evil laugh here] But they’re really not bad. You just have to add lots of topping so then it just tastes like topping. Yum.
• I just received a belated bday gift that included a mix cd. Also, you should know that I’m a little bit anal retentive and normally I have to have all artists/song titles/etc in place before I’ll listen, but this time I just popped into my CD player (cuz I roll like it’s ‘99 sometimes) and it’s so freeing having no idea what song is playing or what is coming up next. I do intend on getting the playlist ASAP because otherwise if I don’t have those details it will never make the move to the laptop though.
• My boyfriend has fallen asleep in a rocking chair. He rolls like he’s 99.
• Let’s talk again about how I’m anal retentive. And also how I hate when people do this on their blogs but I so totally am about to: I can’t give any details because I think I’ll jinx things. But right now I’m having control issues about something that will happen on or before July 1st that involves lots of boxes and packing everything up and I really just wish that all the details were already in place.
• IKEA is opening in Brooklyn in about a month. I.CANNOT.WAIT.
• Right now I’m reading Obama’s book about his father and learned inheritance and race and it’s fascinating. I’m still crushing on him.
• I think I need to take more pictures. I’ve been lacking recently. Hopefully you’ll be seeing some soon.

Can I have another Simple Sunday post about drugs? Well I am. So remember the RX strength advil the doctor prescribed. I thought it was a bit unnecessary, but I took it anyway the first day for the body aches and then basically forgot about it.

Until one day I went to nap and somehow either A) slept wrong or B) coughed my body out of whack or a combo of the both because I pulled a neck muscle and could.not.move. Seriously, the most painful thing ever. But, ta-da! Crazy meds to make the pain go away!! I’m down to taking just one a day when it starts acting up.

But hooray to doctors who can somehow see what I’ll need in the future.

And also - hooray to feeling 99% better! I can do things besides sleep & cough! I can concentrate! I don’t need the codeine! Sundays are always great when you have your health!

Hooray!

I’ve had a pretty great weekend. Ready for some bullets?

• Friday night I decided that we should have a date night. So we went to see Iron Man. And as someone who doesn’t like comic books (ahem, graphic novels) and didn’t know anything about the history of Iron Man, it Rocked. With a capitol R. It was highly highly enjoyable. And Gwenyth Paltrow didn’t annoy me. And if you go, you should stay until the end.
• Because the pair tickets cost me $27 (Dear NYC theaters, do you have a drug problem you need to pay for?!?) we did what we always do to try and get our money’s worth. We snuck into some other theaters. So we watched about an hour of Speed Racer. I don’t think my eyeballs could take any more. It’s amazingly visual, but I think I need to see it on the small screen when I can avert my eyes when needed. But the story, uh yeah, we walked in on the 2nd hour, and could follow perfectly, so the first hour might be a complete waste.
• Then we saw Baby Mama. And it was not funny. And I was saddened because I was hoping for greatness.
• We got home Friday night and within a half an hour one of my roommates came home with like 15 people. My apartment cannot handle that many people. And it was late. And he was all, “oh, I thought you were out of town.” And I was like, um, what? And my apartment has been full of people visiting for the weekend ever since. What is wrong with notifying roommates about having people multiple people stay for long times? Am I asking too much?
• Saturday we had brunch at my favorite place ever. And then walked through the village, trying to waste some time. We enjoyed making comments to each other about people’s outfits while we were sitting in Washington Square Park. And pretending that a red squirrel was an attention seeking photograph whore.
• Then we went to hear some of the 2nd years read some of their thesises. Thesisi? Some were really good, and it made me less nervous for a year from now when I would have to do the same, because 28 people reading for 5 minutes all tends to blur together and now I can’t even remember who I liked. So yeah, no pressure for next year.
• And it was the 1 year anniversary for my favorite bartender/bar owner’s bar, Nelson Blue. So we went and had some Steinlagers and ate some amazing food and watched a dance/presentation by a New Zealand tribe with the real costumes and everything. So much fun.
• At 9 o’clock we were home and exhausted and fell asleep. Until 12:30. When we woke up and were full of energy. So we moseyed over to the living room to watch some DVR action. Including a movie that was playing on Sundance about a Canadian man trying to build a bear-proof suit so he could fight a bear. I am not kidding. And it was so badly done. And he was a pretty awful man. And all in all it was hilarious.
• Finally we made it back to bed and complained that we were touching each other because it was so hot. And now I’m doing this while he’s at work.

FUN TIMES! Don’t you wish you were here?!?

So remember how I’ve been on and off sick for about 2 months now. How I’ve been feeling like I have a cold for 3-4 days, then I’m totally fine for 3-4 days and it just repeats itself endlessly? Remember how awesome that has been?

Well Thursday night it hit an all new low. Well, high. After having body aches all day, I came home, curled up, and was incredibly cold. Shivers, goosebumps, all that fun stuff. But of course it was really a fever, a fever of 103. Ugh. And when I woke up on Friday I still had a fever of 101. So my roommate/boyfriend/mom all convinced me to go to the doctor, who was all, uh, yeah, it’s a virus that is going around. And I was all, yeah, I figured you couldn’t do anything. And he was all, well, wait a minute…

So he gave me 2 prescriptions, one for codine cough medicine and one for high strength advil. Both of which make my stomach quite upset. So I’ve vomited more in the past 2 days then I have in a quite a while. But the good thing is that I’ve learned I can eat toast (and banana waffles!) and popsicles. And I’ve been pretty much sleeping non-stop and catching up on my watching of really awesome bad movies.

The doctor said 4-5 days of uninterrupted rest. Turn off the cell phone, all of that. Which, is like, so hard. I’m on day 3 right now, and I think I’ll give it a go one more day and take off Monday, but Tuesday I think I have to get back to work and school. Because, yikes, there’s only so much sleep one girl can take.

The other good thing is that I explained that the BF has been going through the same thing and we keep passing it, and I was all, uh, can I share the meds with him, so the MD gave a HUGE supply of both. And really, there is no one else I’d rather be cooped up with 4 days in a codeine haze. We haven’t killed each other yet, so I think that’s a good thing.

So because I’m actually semi-lucid right now and it’s Sunday, I’m also going to turn this into a Simple Sunday. The really simple pleasure of sleeping away an entire weekend. So rare and so amazing.

I just took the longest shower ever and it felt amazing.

I saw a co-worker at the bus stop the other day (er, month) so obviously we got to talking about how close we must live, etc etc and it turns out as she was describing where her apartment is located, that it’s right across the street from my bedroom windows. So I went a little awkward and didn’t tell her which windows were mine and kind of avoided it when she asked, because, um, if I can see straight into her kitchen and living room, that means she can see right into my bedroom. Which is where some private stuff goes down. And I’m not at all good about keeping my blinds down, because my room is tiny (see: all of my posts tagged nyc) it feels even smaller all covered up.

So now I’m in this awkward position of always being mid-getting-dressed or mid-sexing and I suddenly realize that OH MY GOD A COWORKER IS PROBABLY STARING AT ME. And then I have to shuffle/cover myself/close blinds all at once. And it’s not fun.

But what is fun, is that now I have 2 people I know in 2 apartments across the street from me, so I can be a total voyeur into their living rooms. So if they’re ever robbed, I’ll totally be able to describe the bad guy. That’ll be pretty awesome.

My Simple Sunday Post this week is all about fruit. It’s finally spring time here in NYC. This week it got up to 80 degrees and was sunny and beautiful. This means that I want to do nothing but eat fruit. Luckily, this also seems to the first week that we’ve had fruit other than apples & oranges at a normalish price. So yay! I’ve been filling myself with grapes and nectarines, and pears, bananas, strawberries, and grapefruit. I think my favorite time of year will be when raspberries are finally cheap again (right now, in my grocery store, they’re $6.99 for a little tiny plastic thingy of them. SO RIDICULOUS.)

But I’m quite happy for all this great fruit and good eating.

I finally got Lars & The Real Girl from netflix. Besides having Paul Schneider, who stars with Zooey Deschanel, in my favorite movie ever, All the Real Girls, which is hilarious because of the names, the movie is incredible.

You should rent it if you haven’t seen it.

The End.

So back in Oct ‘06 my third roommate decided to move out. We put an add on craigslist, etc etc etc and narrowed our choices down to two. I had done the original “showing everyone the apartment” because my second roommate was out of town and we had to find a new person quickly. Of course 2nd roommate wanted to meet these 2 so we set up an “interview” for each one at a near by starbucks. So the long story short, we picked candidate #1, he moved in, about 8 months later he moved out, and our current roommate moved in.

Fast forward to today, my current third roommate has a friend stop over. They talk for a few minutes and then he yells for me to come out of my room for a second. I do, and he says, “Do you remember this guy?” And I’m all, “Um. No?” and the guy tells me that he was the other candidate for the apartment. The one we denied even though he was southern and sweet and desperate for a place because he was staying at his girlfriend’s dorm and that was being frowned upon by, everyone. He is now friends with, and works with, our current third roommate. Crazy!

Awkward! This has been my morning.

Things are slightly weird this weekend. For some reason I have no desire whatsoever to leave the apartment. It’s a perfectly beautiful weekend and all the springtime people are out and getting their drink on and people are happy and free… but all I want to do is curl up and read and do a lot of nothing.

I’m working on not berating myself for things like this and instead embracing it and trying to be productive. And hoping that it won’t last too long and that soon I’ll want to be social again. Maybe I just need to recharge the batteries a little.

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I know I’ve written about Four Eyed Monsters before but had mostly forgotten about it until last night when I caught the end of it on IFC. They re-edited the ending! And it’s still awesome. It turns all meta on itself, which I guess it did from the beginning, but then even more so. So interesting.

Anyway, I love the movie so much, and even though I still haven’t bought it, there was a commercial for FEM after the movie that said that Borders was selling it, starting Tuesday. Crazy. I’m excited for those kids and hopefully they’ll finally make some money so they can stop begging to everyone all the time that we should help get them out of debt because they made an awesome movie they couldn’t afford. Anyway.

If you happen to get IFC, keep an eye out for it.

And in other movie news, the Tribeca Film Fest has started again, so suddenly there are huge crowds around the theaters near me and walking home from work the other night was crazy annoying because they all think they own the sidewalks, and I’m all, uh, I’m trying to walk here, and feel like being smooshed by a car, thank you… but The Boy’s Best Friend is in town from Toronto because his girlfriend’s brother has a movie premiering during the fest. So yay for that!

And yay for weekends!