April 24, 2002
5:59pm Wednesday

AND I DRESS THIS WAY JUST TO KEEP THEM AT BAY

Frailty and Panic Room are on the horizon. I've heard mixed things about the first one so I'm leery, like reviews ranging from "It was f-ing brilliant!" to "Oh my god I just wanted to laugh and walk out." And Bill "You Can't Stop It, You Can't Fight It" Paxton directed, so it's a crapshoot, man.

Is it just me or are movies pretty dismal right now? (I know it's not just me.) The studio marketing and distribution teams need to take a time out and huddle, maybe have an after-game party so they can get it together and release a wide spectrum of appealing films (appealing being key) so the moviegoing public will have a nice selection to choose from. Occasionally I can't keep up with what I want to see, but right now I'm scrounging. I mean I like the Rock's eyebrow as much as anybody, but you will not find my ass anywhere near Scorpion King stadium seating.

I had another tooth filling. No novacaine this time. Balls! It was drilled a week ago, and last night I bit into a Wasabi Pea snack (warning: those little buttholes will try to kill you with their hot wicked wasabi) from Trader Joe's and felt a wrong sensation in my right jaw, and then it was hard to eat dinner. And this morning it was hard to eat Life cereal, and this afternoon it was hard to eat a ham sandwich. It's not hot and cold pain like the dentist warned, but pressure pain, like something has cracked. Damn you to hell, wasabi pea snack. Now I have to be at the dentist at EIGHT in the morning tomorrow. Even being conscious at eight is a challenge. Just please, dear god, no more drills.

Today in my neighborhood post office I learned that 90% of the people there are mailing off ebay packages. Even the ladies behind the counter want to get in on the action - they were drilling (oh, a theme) me on the commission percentages ebay skims. As evidenced by the other day's math computationing (thank you all for the math email lessons, by the way) I wasn't very good with the digits, but I think my furious shrugging convinced them to give it a try.