migblog

sick, and tired, and relieved.

the past two weeks, i've been living in oakland commuting from 45th and broadway to campus because my place didn't have a bed. thank goodness jon and andi let me live with them for two weeks. it was good times.

only thing was, jon was kinda sick during a weekend, and i caught this nasty head cold thing from him. i ended up in bed for a few days. oh well. such is the summer weather swing.

dayquil has been my elixir of choice, and now these silly nagging sinus headaches are disappearing. i can actually say "mom" and not have it sound like "bob."

on another note, my parents visited over the weekend to help me get a bed and fix up my new place. i found out recently that i had just broken three of the largest family infractions ever:

1) spending more than eight hours with family. especially not cool when your brother and the rest of your family is kind of weirded out. plus, i was sick and headachey all of saturday, so i wasn't much help when they wanted me to answer any questions.

2) going to ikea on a weekend. that place is motherfucking CROWDED on weekends. it was a bad idea. i could hear people groaning. the worst exclamation i heard was "someone's not following the arrows." so many yuppie gay couples, starving college students, and people expecting babies -- all of them carrying bright yellow bags and trolling around huge carts with forty pieces of unconstructed furniture. makes me wonder how they carted all of that home.

3) going to ikea on a weekend with your family. disaster beyond all proportions. enough said.

granted i had a great time seeing my mom and my stepdad -- food was provided for, and now i have a sleeping surface in my apartment now -- there's always a point in there where i just had to get out of earshot and just curse and mutter under my breath about how frustrated i was. i mean, seriously -- who needs to argue about the depth of dressers if they're not the ones who are going to be using it?

sunday started off marvelously. brunch with the family and final fixing-up of the apartment happened. soon after they left for socal, though, my body decided to wreak havoc on itself, and i was bedridden the whole day. the next day, i went to the doctor's to make me feel better. and tuesday was definitely a no.


i did see anchorman last week, with jon and andi, along with the third year crew. this week's agenda involves chicken and waffles, so i'm mighty excited to take in some more cholesterol than usual. plus, pants is getting a free dinner cos i owe him that much for helping me move.

giving a tour when you're sick isn't exactly fun, but it impresses people that you can walk ninety minutes backwards through campus while you're saying "that's the cabpadile behide us right dow." (okay, so it wasn't that bad, but my knees were about to give out when we were nearing the college of chemistry.)

and my new place feels very cozy. i just put up posters from the london underground, jennifer garner (gotta represent the ALIAS freak), the romeo and juliet poster i've had forever, and i'm thinking i should leave some space for the football and basketball seasons.

cable television is fucking awesome. i get to watch the daily show every night. i even get to watch conan! (that might not sound like a big deal, but the east bay has really crappy reception of nbc, which translates to no conan in oakland and really bad reception up near the eastern foothills here at berkeley.) i'm so excited that i have comedy central, cnn, and mtv. no more trashy talk shows anymore -- just real world / road rules marathons, headline news, and the occasional newlyweds or the assistant with andy dick (which, by the way, is a fucking hilarious show).

mm. chinese food. and beer.

posted by Open Source Food @ 12:51 PM