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December 06, 2005

mystical healing powers

maybe i have slayer healing powers, or maybe i'm just especially good at sitting on my ass when necessary, because my foot is improving more dramatically than i really dared to hope. this is like, wildest fantasies improvement.

many thanks to b. who loaned me his bug so i could go to the doctor this morning. doc said i could give manual transmission a try in a couple of days.

since my doctor is where i work, i went into the office this morning, but found that i could not elevate my leg and work comfortably. i'm going to work from home tomorrow, and then i should be driving on thursday. i can bring my laptop to work if i still need to elevate my foot, and get a little more comfortable.

i walk almost normally on a level surface at slow speeds. normally enough that a co-worker who saw me ambling down the hall commented that my limp was not very pronounced. i should have offered to show him my foot. it's lovely now. the bruising is really going strong and my ankle bone isn't yet visible (normally, it's quite pronounced).

:|:

i've been watching a lot of chick flicks. the video equivalent of chocolate fudge brownie ice cream. surprisingly good: spanglish and a lot like love. i tried to watch a very long engagement but somehow could not get past the opening sequence. subtitles and battlefields. no way. non-chick-flicks included Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I was surprised at how good Lemony Snicket actually is. I didn't remember it being that good.

:|:

i kinda had this momentum going. read plone docs. get some christmas presents together. make some things, buy some things. buy things to make things. that feels kind of shot now.

oh, and i had things i wanted to do with christmas lights. well, i might still do them. if i do then you'll see. if not then maybe next year.

i was all ready to buy a real christmas tree on sunday after i got my burger that i never got. i moved the furniture around and put the stand where i wanted it and got all the decorations down from the attic. i had a list of other things i wanted to get-- like bubble lights, i love bubble lights-- and i was going to do that on sunday too.

so it's good i am a fast healer, maybe i will still get to do all of that.

Posted by lisa at December 06, 2005 08:00 PM

Comments

i loved spanglish, too.

so, you saw "unfortunate events" twice? i'm scared to see it for some reason. carrey-phobia, i think.

if you need help with xmas decorations or ANYTHING don't be afraid to ask, ok?

Posted by: xta on December 7, 2005 01:51 PM

Restaurant Starlu had a "spanglish" sandwich for a while. Unfortunately for me, I didn't really like the movie. I thought that the characters' emotions and behaviors moved too quickly from one state to another. But Adam Sandler was pretty cute. And I liked the drunk grandma. And the dog.

And of course I always think of the real estate scene whenever someone with long hair sits in my car ;-)

Posted by: Phil on December 7, 2005 11:28 PM

yeah, of course people had to get their panties in a wad because carrey was cast. yes, he can be wildly annoying, but he has his talents. he is reined in enough in this film that he doesn't overshadow the movie, and honestly, he was not a bad choice for the role in question.

i was also distracted when it came out by the fact that it wasn't directed by tim burton, because it just seemed like such a tim burton movie.

but really, it's a darn good movie.

i actually find adam sandler's forays into dramatic acting wayyy more annoying and distracting than jim carrey being jim carrey.

phil, i am so bummed out that you didn't figure out the perfect configuration of windows so that my hair would blow back, and then totally have an affair with me, after i rode in your car.

actually, that thing with the windows would be cool to figure out. let me know if you ever do.

Posted by: lisa on December 8, 2005 12:10 AM

i reserve the right, thankyouverrahmuch, to take offense at the mere presence of jim carrey on the planet, let alone in a movie i'm watching.
i will say that, having seen the out-takes & deleted scenes on the DVD, that the director (and/or editor) does seem to have created a fairly restrained jim carrey performance out of what appears to have been a completely unrestrained one.

Posted by: georg on December 8, 2005 09:25 AM

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