itsallovernow | Today, I Am A Human

All right, migraine? Vanquished.

It must have been the sleep - inexplicably, I slept for 9.5 hours on Saturday night, falling asleep at roughly 12:30 p.m. and waking up at 10, cocooned in a fuzzy blanket and bright, bright sunshine. I was punch drunk and kind of sick for the rest of the day, which was still fabulous - modern dance workshop in the afternoon (I'm going to choreopgraph and piece for myself and am BEYOND excited) and then Rufus Wainright doing Judy Garland at the Hollywood Bowl - but the migraine hit hard as I stumbled to my stacked parking space and it didn't let up until last night, despite sleeping for another 9 hours on Sunday night and 8 last night. If I keep this up, I'm going to be rested and then the world is going to fall apart.

Saw King of Kong: A Fistfull of Quarters on Saturday and it was excellent, surprisngly engaging even if you don't give a hoot about crazy people and their crazy hobbies. (Actually, as fans, it's behavior that I think we'd ALL recognize with a sympathetic underdog, and asshole on top, subjective praise and award giving, nutty acolytes, weird poetry, and of course, Donkey Kong).

I have watched the first season of How I Met Your Mother. Second season, where are you? For the record? I have dated the Ted's of this world, and while they are fantastic, they are also often freaky to those of us who are a leeetle intimidated by people who know exactly how their life should play out. For the equal part of the record? I kind of love that about this show. I was not sure about Robin watching random episodes out of context. Now? Very sure. Plus, Barney so much for the win.

I really do think this show captures the people slightly younger than I am, and the tail end of my peer group, in a way that nothing else really has, at least for those of us who dwell in cities and make family of our friends. There's less need for irony than Friends, which had to have something to cut the manicness and the quirk. These people are far, far more like real people - with weird jobs at the beginnings of their careers, and school, and ambitions, and funny apartments, and bad judgements about love.

I know the Lily's and Marshall's, those people so in love from the first day of college - I know the one's who got married, and the ones who ultimately, did not. And I love that this show lets them be who they are - adorable, annoying, conflicted, in love, joined at the hip, but still people in their own right, even if they're not sure where they individually begin and end.

So, gurus of the internet, where the HELL do I get episodes of Season 2!?!? WANT!

In other news, I look FANTASTIC today, and I want someone to appreciate it! I've got a killer Michael Kors dress on (grey, tight, a high belt and a slit up the back) with black fishnets, a black wool short short jacket and my red high boots. I look like I belong in New York being a professional at something (although with a bigger ass than those around me). I want someone to buy me gin martinis and light my cigarettes in a dark bar as I stand around to be admired. (Okay, so maybe I don't look THAT good, but I feel that good in this dress, which doesn't disguise my giant ass, but does make me look ultra curvy and chic and better than the model in the picture on whom the dress looks odd and it makes me glad I didn't see it first on her because then I'd have never bought it. It makes me feel like everyone would stare if I were 20 pounds thinner. But really, even if I were, there's no one to stare in a nicely appreciative non-sexually harrassing way, so internets, you need to give me props, or at least buy me a Martini:)

Oh, and for the record, because it's LJ and we all know someone who knows someone, the Knocked Up DVD comes out today, and if you cruise on by LJ's

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