So I'm sitting here trying to come up with a topic for a new entry.
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Hm.
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Well.
The problem is that I am feeling impatient today. I could tell you about my (fun) weekend, or I could elaborate on some mundane detail of my life in a (hopefully) amusing fashion, or I could bitch about the neighbors or work or stupid people or the cat, my God I do a lot of bitching, but I'm having one of those "Oh bleah, life, always the same!" moments. I want to spend the next week or so in a hack movie, so that I can skip over all the dish washing and walking around and, oh, just all the dull parts. I want some omniscient editor to sift through all the minutiae and pick out the good stuff. I want plot points only, payoffs without effort, effect without cause, and at least one car chase. I want my endless seething resentment for the presence of stupid humans to have its final vindication, clearly marking me in the right once and for all, preferably with some kung fu fighting involved. I want the things I already do by rote to pass without my awareness, just so that I do not have to waste one more single precious nanosecond of brain power on toasting yet another damn bagel. I want to close my eyes and fast-forward to the next time I'll say something witty, see someone I love, look supercool. I want the fly soundtrack without the juggling of headphones and batteries. I want to never have to do anything twice. I want to never demonstrate the phrase "one step forward, two steps back" again. I want to know that my every action is another mark on the path toward fortune, triumph, a happy ending. That's all.
Posted by hilatron at January 20, 2004 02:23 PM | TrackBackI don't believe that's too much for any of us to ask, really.
Posted by: EV at January 20, 2004 03:43 PM