A Few Thoughts Before Bed

I'm out of here in a couple of days, and I can't wait. I don't want to have any contact with my real life for a while, I want to forget about nearly eveything and everyone I know. That sounds bad, but it isn't, I just need a break from being me, and I need to be someone else for a while. Really, it's not you, it's me, I couldn't be happier.

Before I go, I'm trying to get my shit together, which means getting all the work shit square before I go, and of course running around town, doing a ton of little errands so I have all the crap I need while I'm gone. On that front, I pretty much just need to get a pair or two of comfy shorts, and some toiletries, and I'm good to go. The shorts may have to wait until Mexico. I have to clean the house, so that it's not completely disgusting for my friends who are staying here on their own vacation and watching el perro in return for the crash.

Meantime, after my long run with E today, I stopped in the Barnes + Noble to get some all important reading material for my trip and I was in and out in minutes. My choices were somewhat easy to make, but had some serious strings attached.

I knew I wanted to buy Douglas Coupland's new book Jpod because I've bought all his books pretty much on release since Life After God, his first work released after I'd read the Seminal Generation X. Unfortunately, it's been a while since Doug's had a winner, and his last book Eleanor Rigby was just awful. Interestingly in discussing this with fellow fan E's E last night and grabbing these links from Amazon, I was surprised to find out how utterly reviled Girlfriend In A Coma, a book I consider his last good work, is. Maybe you have to be a Smiths fan?

The other book I bought was A Canticle For Leibowitz, a sort of sci fi classic that was recommended to me by a rapidly cycling manic depressive I used to date. It's a good book, but somewhat forgotten I think until this rerelease. I've never heard anyone else mention it, but I'm looking forward to reading it again.

As for the rapidly cycling manic depressive, there are some things you just don't need to repeat, though I hope she is well.

And I'm in that place between midnight and 2am where you know you should go to asleep but I'm enjoying reading and writing, and I don't really want to stop, but I'm going to.

I'll see if I can write you from Mexico.