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September 10, 2006
the covenant
you know what's wonderful about nuala being in town? being able to go see horrible, truly horrible, YA fantasy movies with someone else.
the covenant is about teenage male witches. hot male witches. with bad lines. and speedos. really quite good looking though. they're all seniors at some private prep school on the east coast and descended from witches that went into hiding during the salem witch trials. at the age of 13 they get some wicked awesome powers. and at the age of 18 they "ascend" to full powers and then start dying. because the powers are their life force, and oh so seductive. everytime you use them you die a little on the inside. and every time you use them you want to use them more. as a premise goes...this one was pretty lame.
it became lamer as they didn't have the intelligence to use the powers to full potential. moreover they constantly drove around in the rain with the top down on the car. and every time the girls were alone in their dorm room, they stripped down to tiny tank tops and underwear. i know this is male wish fulfillment, but girls don't really do that. especially when it's freezing. they're called fuzzy warm pajama pants, people, learn it, live it, wear it.
there were some horrific moments with spiders where nuala and i cringed and squealed in our seats. they did the laying eggs, baby spiders erupting from a sore thing. oh god, it was awful.
the best lines:
reed: "harry potter can KISS MY ASS!"
as he drove the car over a cliff and used his powers to levitate it in concert with the other three hotties.
and:
chase: "how about i make you my wiotch?"
WIOTCH?!?!? ha ha ha ha ha!!! i changed my phone to have nuala's # under 'wiotch'. i am so excited for the next time she calls me. so, SO excited
Posted by michele at 07:40 PM | Comments (1)
September 09, 2006
pink sleep
for the last two weeks i've been convinced that moo cow (my cat) was dying. she had elevated enzymes in her liver and bile system which is indicative of either a liver disease curable by antibiotics or terminal cancer. the symptom i developed from this disease was an antipathy for dealing with other people. i pretty much haven't left my house for 2 weeks. i've been awful about answering the phone and initiating email.
yesterday, moo cow had a second set of blood tests done which came back with significantly decreased enzyme levels. which means the antibiotics are actually helping. which means she probably won't die. i started feeling better about things. i actually emailed people today to ask how they were doing. i commiserated with jason's story of mexican food poisoning. i matched electronic wits with sean and lost (because, as we know, he's so much funnier than me). but that was this morning.
last night i walked out into the backyard where fats waller (my other cat) was lying on the grass meowing piteously in a voice not his own. he actually let me walk right up to him and pick him up. if you know fats, you know this is completely against his normal behavior. this morning he was still doing no better and we were worried about him so a trip to the emergency vet was in order. first they thought it was just kidney stones--treatable. but then they thought it might be a kidney infection--again, treatable. so for a great part of today i was feeling all right about things. fats would be ok, he'd be treatable. soon he'd be back meowing his actual meow and flopping over for me to rub his belly.
it turns out though that he had kidney cancer--really not treatable. this is the first time in my life i've been around for the death of one of my cats. it's not an experience i have any desire to repeat. the vet injected him and he turned to me for comfort. he put his head in my palm and i watched him die.
Posted by michele at 08:12 PM