the lightening of the dark

ok.... it's been a while since i wrote here... but believe me - i have spared us all a boring, whinging litany of how strange my life has become. to make it less long and more short for the month of december i have been doing some hourly-wage work for a company that processes A LOT of paper. a lot. and i've been doing exciting things like alphabetizing giant stacks of paper by company name and then taking a calculator and adding up all the totals of all the same-named companies together. urgh. i know - it makes no sense.

and this brain-rot has the unattractive side effect of hurting me. seriously. i have some sort of strange nerve/muscle thing happening in the left side of my rib-cage. i think the constant sorting of papers with my left hand has done this to me. yech. guys, be warned, excessive repetitive hand motion can lead to a searing and rather painful ribcage. who knew? on the bright side - my doctor gave me a prescription for tylenol 3. she wanted to give me 40 (?!?) for one week. i said i wouldn't need that many. 40. for one week. that seems excessive. maybe i'm just too squeaky clean.

right now i'm putting off washing dishes (so that the cat sitters won't think i'm a total slob) and then calling a cab to come pick me up to take me to the airport tomorrow morning. yes, that's right - i'm headed to edmonton. where they actually don't have any snow on the ground. here in toronto we have absolute mountains of the stuff. it's a total reversal of wintery-fortune. of course the nice weather in edmonton has made me pack much less wool and heavy-duty winter clothes. normally when i'm back home, i freeze the entire time and end up wearing layers and layers. hopefully my choices don't leave me missing the warmth.

earlier today i caught ed the sock's annual festival of frommage and this year wasn't nearly as cruel or cutting as it could of been. i think the videos are all just so bad that ed has lost the will to massacre. regardless, there was a great line that actually made me laugh out loud. it was during the review of gwen stefani's horrid video, "rich girl". ed said something along the lines of, "it's funny that they're singing about not having money when the budget for this video could feed a third world nation for a year, or pay for all canadian videos for one year."

blessed yule, merry christmas, happy hanukkah, joyful commercialism, or whatever it is that you may celebrate this time of year.

[music | stellastarr, "love and longing"]