The Importance of Being Idle

If You Can Dodge Traffic You Can Dodge A Ball

Well, that's that done then. Stu's at the airport right now, his flight leaves in about fifty minutes, and my little brother is away to San Francisco...
It's been a fun couple of days. Mainly its involved talking bullshit, drinking, playing video-games and watching movies, the usual brotherly bonding activities really. It was fun. Movies I would recommend from our little festival would be Shaolin Soccer, one of the funniest things I've seen in months, and Layer Cake, an utterly brilliant brit gangster flick. Don't make the mistake of thinking Layer Cake is gonna be another Guy Ritchie-alike either, there are no cartoon gangsters in this one, just real characters, real plot, real violence. Its a damn fine movie indeed, very much in the same vein as The Long Good Friday if anyone has seen that.
We hired a car yesterday so I could take him down to the airport. We got a Ford Focus, which is actually a pretty cool little car. Also it really is (fairly) little, at least compared to that great big boat I used to have before, but that was pretty easy to get used to. What is more unusual is that its just a newer car. The Granada was seventeen years old, and that was evident in all kindsa things in the technology throughout the car, whereas the Focus, even a relatively low-end one like our hire car, has some cool little gizmos in it (like being able to control the stereo from a stalk by the steering wheel, so I don't need to take my eyes off when messing about with the radio). It was a fun drive down to the airport this morning, and now I'm back.
For all that I was bitching about having him here, it seems quiet here now. Thats probably emphasised by the fact that he's not just NOT here, cos let's face it, he isn't usually, it's WHERE he's gone - to San Francisco to see Brianne and of course, Revenge of the Sith. Oddly I'm not that bothered about the movie, I mean it's so close now I'll get to see it soon enough, and in an odd way with all the media attention and hoopla surrounding it I actually feel like I've already seen it. I don't even begrudge him getting to meet Bri, or anything like that, I just wish I could be with Ash, if only for a couple of weeks, days, hell I'd settle for an HOUR. We've known one another for so long now, been as involved as you really can be from this distance, but neither of us seem to have the finances to get it together to actually meet up, and it kills me. Most days its actually okay, but I suppose today is just being a confluence of things, what with Stu travelling and it being Ash's birthday (Happy Birthday princess!). It doesn't even make sense, but I miss her, I mean physically miss her presence, even though we've never met... I can't claim to understand it. Long distance romance kids, it's a very peculiar and exquisite form of torture. Don't get me wrong, I don't regret our relationship at all, not in any way and I wouldn't give her up for the world, but dammit sometimes it is SO hard. In all the ways you can interpret that ;p
Okay well right now I am tired and hungry, so I'm going to have breakfast/lunch and then I don't know what. I've not really slept all that much in the past few days (drunkeness, late nights and financial worries do not a pleasant and relaxing combination make), but I hate napping for reasons which elude me, so I probably won't do that... at least not on purpose!

posted by BadMonkey @ 12:04 PM