On Weather, Injury, SNES and Books

Hello, my internet chums.

Today is the day that ends in blizzard. Well, no, that's yesterday. Today it's just snowy. The driveway appeared to me as a giant slab of paper, and I drew a huge heart with my feet. Do you know how hard it is to proportion these things when they're on a large scale? My heart ended up being demented and oblong. After I finished, I wondered if I should have attempted to draw something more interesting...so I leaped and made a smiley face in the heart. I know, I know, it's so original and potent with depth. But my auntie was on call last night, and before she drove over my heart dude, she saw him and all her troubles washed away for a moment (Or so I optimistically speculate). So the mission was accomplished.

So the weather has been teasing us with thoughts of spring. I think that the weather has a very mean sense of humor. However, though it's toyed with my feelings up until now, there will be no more. It's March - anything can happen - do what you will, O Weather, One Who Likes Getting A Laugh On The Hopeful. I will not curse you any longer. I will not treat the warm weather as though it is here to stay. There will be no more laughs on me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Suddenly I feel like I'm in elementary school again. Though I was firmly against abusing exclamation points even then...

So yesterday I fell down a few wooden stairs at my house. I was all, "ouch! Yearg!" And Luna looked at me very curiously, and dare I say, worriedly. But the searing pain in my back had lessened, so I got up and brushed myself off. Pish, a minor flesh wound. But as I returned to the computer, I was struck by a heat wave (or perhaps it was endorphins) and started falling over. Was I dying?!??!?! No. Just passing out. Though my body was falling over and not standing well, because of all the fuzziness, my brain was coherent. "No! Fight the fuzziness! Do not pass out!" And then I layed down and the fuzziness dissipated. So I watched an E! Hollywood True Story (Punky Brewster) and then it was all good, except for the bruise. It's an unusual bruise. A line runs three inches parallel to my spine, almost directly on it. The base of this line is a lump. And bruised backs are annoying. If your leg is bruised, whatever...but you put pressure on your back all the time, so every time you sit, or bend, or lay down, the pain awaits.

Anyway, I think that was such a spectacular event for me because I've never almost passed out before. It was a new experience.

Last night, Derek was stranded at my house, so we had a slumber party with gossip, booze, and SNES. SNES is one of the best gaming systems, in my heart, anyway. See, original Nintendo knew it was primitive. It openly admitted it, saying, “The games are simple, but hell, what else are you gonna play?’ Super Nintendo, on the other hand, was all, “Check me out! I’m revolutionary! My graphics are almost 3-D and the gameplay is amazing!” SNES is so proud of itself. Thus, it’s very fun to play. The graphics are silly, so you’re always grinning, because it was trying so hard. Not to mention the games are just fun.

I read ‘1984’ by George Orwell last week. If you haven’t read it, you should. It’s so wonderful and disturbing. And now I’m reading ‘Midnight’s Children’ by Salman Rushdie. This man is quite wonderful. His entire books are rambles, that’s why they’re so long. He’ll be talking about the character’s huge nose, and then discuss at length the life of the grandpa with the huge nose, and how the grandpa came about learning that this was a wonderful thing, and then, after many pages, circle back to the main character, and then some other detail will be explained, like the full history of it. His writing style makes the rambles fun, though. Sometimes he can go entire paragraphs without a period. “…While I sit like an empty pickle jar in a pool of Anglepoised light..”

Meanwhile, Doug and I are scrambling to get a sort of album put together of our material. If everything goes on, there will be something like 21 songs, but I’m hoping we’ll cut it down a bit. This project ambitiously hopes to be done within a week, and after that, “Kat Has the Key” songs require my attention.

So that’s what’s going on. Happy snow day, everyone!

Allysia