Things have been real annoying here since Thursday! That night, the puppy needed to go out at 1:30 am and then again at 3 am and finally at 5 am, at which point I just put her and myself on the couch until the alarm went off at 6:45. My husband had to get on a two-hour work Zoom at 8 am, which is precisely when the internet crapped out for the first time.
I did get the dogs to school more or less on time, but after that things fell apart: I got on a 30-minute call at 9:45 am and ten minutes in I noticed I wasn’t actually recording, even though I’d started to. I re-started the recording and then the internet went down again. The call rambled long past its scheduled end time, and then the house cleaners arrived nearly two hours early.
I didn’t feel well (not in a COVID way). Work issues that should have been easy became annoying and I desired – but did not seek – retribution. At one point, I churlishly gave an email the double middle finger.
(A small good break in the day occurred when I had leftover enchiladas for lunch, and then washed my hair and dried it with the Revlon styler.)
I did get to have the house to myself for a solid several hours on Saturday, for the first time since March. I did some work, a few chores, and then I laid on the couch in the upstairs sunroom and tried to watch a movie. Recently I’ve half-rewatched two of the Jason Bourne movies, and in case you haven’t seen them the plot is basically this:
CIA: We are the CIA and we have endless resources at our disposal, we are totally going to find this one human man who has nothing and nobody to rely on
Jason Bourne: *gets away again*
CIA: HOLY SHIT NOT AGAIN
[Moby music]
Don’t get me wrong, I like these movies. But when you watch them close together this particular thing really stands out.
Anyway, on Saturday I rewatched Obvious Child, which is good but not as good as I remembered it being. I do still think Jake Lacy – a big meh! for me, typically – looks very cute in this movie, and I laughed because I forgot that Jenny Slate’s character nicknamed him “pee farter.” After Obvious Child I tried to watch A Dangerous Method but I had to stop because Keira Knightley’s performance kept making me scream laugh, and I do not think that was the intended effect. Sorry to everyone who liked that movie, I could not make it even 40 minutes, Fassbender or no Fassbender.