yeah. so i'm feeling better; apparently i just caught one of those little flu-ish things that are going around. though it's hard to say where i caught it, since i didn't go out for nearly a week anyway. but these things happen. they seek me out, i'm almost sure of it. maybe i should buy myself a plastic bubble. save me some cold germs, give me an excuse for my obvious hermit proclivities.

i finished high fildelity, and i have to say i was impressed. mystified quite a lot of the time because i'm just not that much of an obscure music fan, but regardless, impressed by how much i cared about the main character. because i know quite a lot of people like that guy, and in general i find them far less likable than i found him. in fact, i usually want to smack them. and in some parts of the novel i did want to smack rob, but by the end i was fairly confident that he had figured out what he needed to. which i think is why it reminds me so much of shopgirl. both protagonists are the drifting sorts. they type of people to whom things happen, rather than the type that make things happen. they're looking, consciously or unconsciously, to be saved. the difference, i think, is that mirabelle doesn't feel trapped by her life, so much as she's floating through it in a suspended state. and rob spends a good majority of the book blaming other people for his lack of motivation. and i'm not sure why i think that a novel about a depressed record-store owner and a novella about the glove girl at nieman marcus are at all related. but i think nick hornby and steve martin need to get together for coffee and talk, because the feel of both books is eerily similar.

nothing further on the Crush front, either. being sick in bed for a whole weekend can do that to a social life. i was going to finish this entry talking about mtv's "fight for your rights" week, but i think i'll leave that for tomorrow, because at this juncture it would be too easy to fall into blatant self-pity over the aforementioned bullying stories. oh, and i'm thinking about taking a certification course in massage. it only takes a year, and i could work through college and grad school with a job like that. anyway, that's all for now.

i can't seem to shut up, -beatpoetgrrl

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