Eh. It won't be the worst holiday season of my life—that was in sixth grade, when I had chicken pox and mono simultaneously for Hanukkah. Now that was something.
Up until my mid-twenties, I was sick every year for my birthday. When I was in San Francisco, it was strep throat or poison oak outbreak (I was hypersensitive to it, and it was everywhere in San Fran), and one memorable year, both. After we moved, it was strep throat or bronchitis. Then in my mid-twenties, the pattern changed. I would either be sick for my birthday or sick for Christmas. At twenty six, I was sick for all of December. In January, I was diagnosed with CFIDS, which explained it all.
Well, today and yesterday's fun and excitement is an all-over body rash with swelling in the face and extremities. I went to see the doctor about it yesterday, and have another appointment now for tomorrow morning. Current speculation is that I got a windgust of at least one thing to which I'm allergic (not difficult).
Considering your condition at the time, I'd say any possible upside would be welcome, though...yeah. Bleh.
I watched The Tailor of Panama last night. It was good. I liked the dialogue. I liked how the tailor concept was played with for Geoffrey Rush's character. I loved the scene where he starts yelling at Brendan Gleeson, Mark Margolis, and Martin Ferrero about pride in tailoring.
I wasn't quite a hundred percent on the movie, though. It sort of bothered me that those last three actors I named were clearly an Irishman and two Americans meant to be Panamanians. Jon Polito (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0689237/) stuck out like a sore thumb, too. It seemed sort of like a throwback to Anthony Quinn and Alec Guinness in Lawrence of Arabia, which sort of makes sense because John Boorman seems like he's heavily influenced by David Lean.
Pierce Brosnan was good, and it was interesting hearing him with more of a cockney accent. It seemed to me he wasn't playing utterly against James Bond, but playing a bit of a tweaked Bond. Which was kind of nice.
As I was watching, I remembered another movie I'd seen Brosnan in, Death Train (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106689/), a movie I think he and many of its other stars would like to forget. It predates Goldeneye and is sort of cheap, dull cheese, though it was fun seeing Brosnan attempting a Kentucky accent, if you can believe it. There's a moment where another character refers to him as a stupid redneck or something and it's a little amusing in a way I’m sure wasn’t intended.
Anyway, thanks for recommending The Tailor of Panama. I couldn't find The Matador for some reason. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong section . . .
For reasons related to my health, which are nonfatal but immensely frustrating at the moment.
That's too bad. I hope they vanish mysteriously for you.
I have thirty boxes of books!
That's impressive. I have a feeling you're taking a lot of your apartment's insulation with you.
I couldn't guess how many books I have; they've gotten so dispersed over various moves. All I know is there's a mountain to my left, a few towers to my right, a jigsaw puzzle of books in my closet, and, mashed together in my car, what might at this point be described as "book felt." When I dream, I dream of book shelves. Lots of 'em.
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Nostrum est interim mentem erigere
et totis patriam votis appetere
et ad Iherusalem a Babylonia
post longa regredi tandem exilia.
Apologies for the Abelard--it's what popped into my head.
Hanukkah's insanely late this year...
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There have been a couple of years when it overlaps with Christmas. That's always a little odd.
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stranger than the times when, as
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When festivals collide . . .
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(Sorry, I could resist at first, but eventually the bad joke got the better of me . . .)
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Ah well. You may appreciate this, which features a fried of friends.
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Well, yes, and the things they fried.
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These aren't like the Latkes of Sweeney Todd, are they?
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All we need is an appearance from Saint Lawrence . . .
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That must have come as a surprise to Titus and Vespasian . . .
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Likewise!
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I will have another apartment, and it will have the same futon, and you will come and sleep on it.
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Heckuva time to be moving.
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Eh. It won't be the worst holiday season of my life—that was in sixth grade, when I had chicken pox and mono simultaneously for Hanukkah. Now that was something.
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He wins.
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Chicken pox and mono, though. Yikes.
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Bleh. How are you currently doing?
Chicken pox and mono, though. Yikes.
It was reasonably abysmal. The only possible upside was that because of the exhaustion from the mono, I couldn't scratch at the pox . . .
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Considering your condition at the time, I'd say any possible upside would be welcome, though...yeah. Bleh.
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Yikes. All you want for New Year's is a friendly immune system?
Feel better!
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I watched The Tailor of Panama last night. It was good. I liked the dialogue. I liked how the tailor concept was played with for Geoffrey Rush's character. I loved the scene where he starts yelling at Brendan Gleeson, Mark Margolis, and Martin Ferrero about pride in tailoring.
I wasn't quite a hundred percent on the movie, though. It sort of bothered me that those last three actors I named were clearly an Irishman and two Americans meant to be Panamanians. Jon Polito (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0689237/) stuck out like a sore thumb, too. It seemed sort of like a throwback to Anthony Quinn and Alec Guinness in Lawrence of Arabia, which sort of makes sense because John Boorman seems like he's heavily influenced by David Lean.
Pierce Brosnan was good, and it was interesting hearing him with more of a cockney accent. It seemed to me he wasn't playing utterly against James Bond, but playing a bit of a tweaked Bond. Which was kind of nice.
As I was watching, I remembered another movie I'd seen Brosnan in, Death Train (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106689/), a movie I think he and many of its other stars would like to forget. It predates Goldeneye and is sort of cheap, dull cheese, though it was fun seeing Brosnan attempting a Kentucky accent, if you can believe it. There's a moment where another character refers to him as a stupid redneck or something and it's a little amusing in a way I’m sure wasn’t intended.
Anyway, thanks for recommending The Tailor of Panama. I couldn't find The Matador for some reason. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong section . . .
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For reasons related to my health, which are nonfatal but immensely frustrating at the moment.
I have thirty boxes of books! The kind from Staples, which are made out of industrial-strength white cardboard. And I haven't even packed the OED yet!
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That's too bad. I hope they vanish mysteriously for you.
I have thirty boxes of books!
That's impressive. I have a feeling you're taking a lot of your apartment's insulation with you.
I couldn't guess how many books I have; they've gotten so dispersed over various moves. All I know is there's a mountain to my left, a few towers to my right, a jigsaw puzzle of books in my closet, and, mashed together in my car, what might at this point be described as "book felt." When I dream, I dream of book shelves. Lots of 'em.
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In the New Year, I want less sketchy landlords . . .
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It's safe through the end of this month.
Or are you having mail forwarded?
(I need to set that up . . .)
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Are you moving far, or only within the vicinity?
I hope the move goes well, in any event.
And that you cease feeling exiled soon. (Would it be helpful to wish for the defeat of the Assyrians?)
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Nah, they produced some terrific literature . . .
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And besides, I shouldn't have done them the disservice of getting them backwards with the Babylonians, no?
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Just tell yourself it's all Akkadian and no one will be offended.
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Thank you! There are quite a number of them . . .
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May your books feel as light as feathers when you move them. Perhaps this might help (not that the books need to be invisible)? (http://www.amazon.com/Invisibility-Levitation-Guide-Personal-Performance/dp/0938294369
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I can't help feeling that thirty boxes of invisible books would be a certified household disaster . . .
Happy Hanukkah!
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Happy Hanukkah!
- Ellen
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I can indeed.
Happy Hanukkah!
Likewise!