Midge's Blog

this is not pretty...little green men

today i lay on the couch and cough up green phlegm...tomorrow, i will be rid of this evil disease. during the course of the past 5 days i've gone from an extremely sore throat and stuffy nose, to a 2 day fever and not wanting to eat anything, back to a sore throat and coughing, and now i'm in the final phase...coughing out green loogers. better stay back people. i'm happy it's come to this though, as i know it is usually the final phase. i almost feel human again.

m.

puffers and figs...

ok, this is just kind of a rant, so if you're not in the mood for a rant, skip to the next paragraph... but i'm in the middle of having an asthma attack. nothing like a good asthma attack first thing in the morning. oh, summer. and don't get me wrong, i'm glad summer is here--happily growing veggies and lots of sunshine! but does it have to get so hot right away? can't it ease me into the upper twenties? my body is a big fan of the lower twenties. when it gets too hot, i have asthma attacks, and my stomach gets sick more often. and it makes me want to run away to somewhere that is always cold and sunny... i'm not sure where that would be...greenland maybe? arg. arg. arg.

anyway, figs! figs are out! scott and i walked to the video store to drop off a movie last night, and the produce store a couple stores down had really good raspberries out front, so i decided to get some. while walking into the store, i said "man, i can't wait till they get figs again", and lo and behold, figs!!! only a few cartons, but they were dark and big, and in good shape, and it was so exciting!!! the people there must've thought i was a lunatic, cause i yelled "figs!!!" when i saw them. on the way back home, i had figs on the mind, and we took the lane back. all of a sudden i noticed a huge fig tree that i'd never noticed before in someones yard, arching over the fence. it was covered in unripe, but good sized figs! i couldn't believe my eyes, there were so many of them. said hi to the sad lonely doggy, whose fur is coming out in chunks (is it time to report them yet?), and before we made it home, i had spotted another huge fig tree and two small ones. i've decided if it looks like nobody is eating them, i'm going to ask if i can pick them for myself. i can't wait until the day my little tree can find a happy home in some real dirt, and start on its way to becoming a great big fig tree like those ones! mmmmm....

m.

cd spree

I had to go to the Elections Canada office today, which was so convieniently 2 blocks down from A&B sound. Scott owes me a couple cd's from a bet, so I went and picked up the new Matt Good album that came out today, White Light Rock & Roll Review. Funnily it sounds more like old Matt Good, it really is a rock album, sounded good at first listen.

I also got the new Zero7 cd, when it falls, haven't listened to it yet.

Happy listening to me!

read more!

there's something so perfectly satisfying about finishing a book. just finished nick hornby's (author of high fidelity, how to be good, and about a boy) songbook, in which he basically just writes about his favorite music. nick hornby writing about music...how can you go wrong?

k- if you want to read it, let me know, i'll slap a bookcrossing label on it and mail it to you.

m.

Happiness...or something like it.

I'm so very content right now. My colloquium went really well, it was actually a little fun. Cirque du Soleil Friday night was great. The weekend was fun, if a little uneventful. Went to see "Supersize Me" Saturday, it was awesome--so funny...and informative!

I'm listening to one of the two CD's I just bought...Ron Sexsmith's new disc, Retreiver. It's quite good.

The other one I bought is the new Hayden, Elk Lake Serenade. It's next in line for listening.

I was getting bored of my music, though there's not much new out right now, I thought it time to rejuvinate the collection.

And it's nice and summery outside. Yay! Yay for summeryness, new CD's, and school going well!

m.

smart vibes

ok people, 4 hours and counting until my colloquium. feeling okay, but i can use all the smart vibes i can get. send 'em my way! also, any calm stomach, non-nervous vibes are quite welcome. it should be all over by about 2:30. i'm a little less nervous cause one of the other students who did hers last week said it went really bad and they still passed her. basically all i have to do is get through it--everything else is a bonus. deep breaths. deep breaths.

m.