“this country is safe again, Superman, thanks to you”
“don’t thank me, warden, we’re all on the same team”
My apartment is an unholy oven of misery. It has been so unbearably hot lately. Too hot for good sleep so I got up after 4 hours and shined my shoes while I watched the original Superman movie while sweating in t-shirt and boxers.
Working nightshifts now. Caffeine withdrawal headache. I can tell. Advil doesn’t help these ones. And it’s localized just so.
It’s night and Thunderstorming now. I shouldn’t post at 5am because these ones always seem too whiny/stupid/dark/inane when I read them the next day.
I’m stuck in 1982. Can’t switch my running music cause compy died.
Nick Hornby has a new book coming out tomorrow, A Long Way Down. I’m contemplating paying the hardcover price. I read a little of the entertainment weekly review and it seems like something I’d like. First I have to finish my current scholarly tome and literary masterpiece, The Pelican Brief by John Grisham. A Deft Potboiler! Kaleidoscope Action! A Megathriller! Unputdownable!
One more hour and I can go home. Gonna get soaked.
The Ancient Undergrad 
don’t try putting a block of ice in front of your fan to make it act like a pseudo-air conditioner… you could kill yourself you know. i learned that from an episode of CSI hahaha aaahhhhh
i shouldn’t post comments at 2 in the morning. they’re usually delirious/stupid/stupid/stupid/stupid… hehehehe =) have a good week!
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“I shouldn’t post at 5am because these ones always seem too whiny/stupid/dark/inane when I read them the next day.” exactly.
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I loathe the summer. The heat has already put me in hibernation mode. This icky, sticky humidity. There are days when a t-shirt and boxers is too much to wear. (Hey, that’s what I wear too around the apartment!). Man, I haven’t watched the original Superman in forever. I was pissed off the other night watching Bravo or something, and they had the top 20 superheroes ever. You’d think that Superman would be #1 and Batman #2. Nope. Spiderman is supposedly the best superhero ever. *rolls eyes* How fad based. The best comic vixen was Catwoman. Wonder Woman was like #8 or something! Though, Julie Newmar in the cat outfit… *purrs*
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I feel your pain, on many levels. My sleep schedule is messed up and my insomnia bad enough without an erratic schedule. I hate heat and it makes me physically sick–no AC in your place? Gah. Take a cold shower and go to bed naked with a fan blowing right on you. I can deal with 10 below zero, but anything above 80 degrees kills me. My friend was visiting from Georgia this weekend and I was whining incessantly about the heat and humidity, clutching a Kleenex to my perspiring face every second we were outside. He just laughed. I would kill myself if I had to live in the South (for more reasons than the heat).
My best friend dated Conor of Bright Eyes, before they were all “big,” so I got a few of their albums for free. He even named a song after her, on their last major recording before this double album release. Ahem. If you do take a listen to any of their stuff, let me know what you think.
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dude I totally know how you feel my apt. felt like an oven… Damn you Boston.. damn yoU!!
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Poor fella. Hey, now that you’re graduating, are you going to change YOUR Xanga name?
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The beauty of living in Colorado is the wonderful summer weather. Its a wonderful 75 degrees in the day, and a cool 45 to 55 degrees at night. No need for fans or AC. I live pretty much in the mountains, so that does make a difference. I know this does the opposite of help, but everyone who posted agrees with the simmer summer predicament you are in, and well… I felt the need to be different. I envy the thunderstorming though. Since I live just outside of the mountain range… everything pretty much passes over my little city… then beats down on the plains some 60 or so miles away. I love the rain… but you know that.
Superman… I have these wonderful memories of watching the movies on the couch with my cousins and falling asleep with them runnning on our new VCR player. I am so old…. damn… hahahaha… whatever.
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The Pelican Brief is fantastic. All of Grisham’s are. The Firm and The Street Lawyer are by far my favorites, though.
It’s hot as hell here, too. My car AC is broken, so I have to drive in 95-degree heat with no air. Oh, Houston summers. They’re killer.
Still, guys sitting around in boxers and shining shoes is always good. 😉
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Oh, speaking of the original Superman (meaning the 1980 film–now that I think about it, there might be a more original original, and maybe that’s what you’re referring to). I watched it a few weeks ago at the behest of my super-hero obssessed boyfriend. I was so pissed off at the movie that it made my blood pressure go up, literally. Few movies are able to piss me off that much. It is SO awful. That part when he and Lois are flying through space, and Lois is talking to herself in her head (IN RHYME), I wanted to throw something at the television. GOD.
Sorry. I hope you this isn’t offensive. Just sharing how I feel.
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To deal with the heat I like to squirt Sea Breeze face cleaner on cotton balls, swab em all over my face and back of my neck and then rub an ice cube over it. Instant deep freeze.Jake
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I hope your ode to Grisham was sarcastic.
Guess who saw Batman Begins on IMAX with a bunch of comic book geeks two weeks before it’s release in theatres? yes yes, that woould be me. and christian bale is as perfect a batman as christofer reeve is a superman (but Margot Kidder is a better Lois Lane than whatever character it was that Katie Holmes played)
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i LOVE what you’ve done with your banner!!!!!!! hooray for being a grad, finally!!!!!!!YOUR school ended two months ago. i, alas, am barely doing finals because i go to PCC, aka Suck School. fortunately, i am transferring in the fall. hurrah for me.
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O yeah… The Pelican Brief is my favorite.
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“unholy oven of misery” i love the imagery it conjures in my head!
you should try shining your shoes naked. i say, try doing everything naked just to say that you did.
ryc: must suck to be sweaty AND hairy like animal.
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