Stock Taking
Is it inevitable that the minute I'm off my parents' insurance, I seem to be constantly sick? I think, yes. See, there's another wrinkle (hopefully the last) in the whole saga of this summer. On Monday, I started developing this glorious, full-body rash. This shit was on my ears, folks. We're talking toes, fingertips, scalp, everything. Gross. Turns out, however, that it's totally normal: 80-90% of people, I guess, who are on amoxocillin and have mono get it. And luckily the doctor let me go off the antibiotics a little early because of it. In the meantime, I've been religiously taking oatmeal baths and smearing myself with this diaper rash ointment Ryden got for his last tattoo. Unfortunately, it's still not out of my system. Hopefully soon. The mono has been holding steady at not-that-bad. I've got one more week-ish here. Maybe by then I'll be well and stay well. Until I go to Spain and get swine flu. HAHAHAHAHAHA. Okay, one, it's months too late for a swine flu joke. Two, now that I said that, I'm sure I've jinxed myself, because the universe obviously reads my blog, etc. etc.
I'm almost done with the second story I've written since I got off school. This probably doesn't sound all that impressive, but I hadn't been doing so hot on the productivity front all year, so it seems awesome. I set myself a goal to write three solid stories this summer, and so far I'm on schedule. Check. My reading list is also going well. I'm working on Eat the Document now, which I'm not, to be honest, a huge fan of, but before-and-after stuff like this has never really been my thing. Next up: Joan Didion (I've never read anything by her which should probably deeply embarrass me), Wells Tower, more Nabakov. And I'm trying to catch up on some movies I should have seen, but hadn't. I rented "Taxi Driver" last week and stupidly finished it, yesterday, while eating lunch. I wasn't a huge fan, really, except for the parts that I thought were completely hilarious. The same guy was working when I returned the video as when I checked it out, and when he asked me what I thought of it, and I told him it was funny, he looked at me like I was unbalanced. Why so serious, Video Central guy?
The idea of leaving now seems sort of silly because I just feel like I've stopped getting lost all the time. And, obviously, the idea of going back to a long distance relationship gives me the sads.
I'm almost done with the second story I've written since I got off school. This probably doesn't sound all that impressive, but I hadn't been doing so hot on the productivity front all year, so it seems awesome. I set myself a goal to write three solid stories this summer, and so far I'm on schedule. Check. My reading list is also going well. I'm working on Eat the Document now, which I'm not, to be honest, a huge fan of, but before-and-after stuff like this has never really been my thing. Next up: Joan Didion (I've never read anything by her which should probably deeply embarrass me), Wells Tower, more Nabakov. And I'm trying to catch up on some movies I should have seen, but hadn't. I rented "Taxi Driver" last week and stupidly finished it, yesterday, while eating lunch. I wasn't a huge fan, really, except for the parts that I thought were completely hilarious. The same guy was working when I returned the video as when I checked it out, and when he asked me what I thought of it, and I told him it was funny, he looked at me like I was unbalanced. Why so serious, Video Central guy?
The idea of leaving now seems sort of silly because I just feel like I've stopped getting lost all the time. And, obviously, the idea of going back to a long distance relationship gives me the sads.