I Like Hot Cocoa

My Sickbed

Don't let the smile fool you--I was feeling like crap, just getting over the worst of my week-long illness. All I could bring myself to do was sit on the couch and watch hours upon hours of Law & Order. Really--it's my healing regimen. I guess the cats thought that what I really needed was to be smothered to death. (There are four here. . . Sam's hiding by my feet under the blanket.) Shortly after this was taken I began flinging them around the room in fear for my life.

Convo Between Two Procrastinators on Deadline

Me: goddamnit i have had all day to write this article and i still have ONE line on the page. what the eff is WRONG with me??
Me: I'm gonna pout now.
Erin: I'm also pouting.
Me: good! we can have a pouting party. where we sit around and pout.
Erin: sounds like a great time! I'll bring the beer!
Me: sweet! I'll bring the melancholy!
Erin: mmm melancholy and alcohol. nothing tastes sweeter.

And Now for Observations Made in the Last Five Minutes

1. Drinking hot beverages is the only way to not die in pain from my throat feeling like I swallowed a porcupine followed by sandpaper followed by nail-polish remover followed by fire.
2. I can always tell when Frank's home because Cheese Doodles magically appear in the pantry.
3. Sitting in my desk chair staring at the wall is ten times more interesting than writing my article.
4. I am the worst procrastinator in the history of the world.

A Random Synopsis of the Last Few Weeks

I've been super busy lately and therefore I am not maintaining my personal blog (i.e. this one) nearly as often as I'd like. Here are a few updates in bullet-point fashion if any of my loyal readership is at all interested:

• I covered Super Tuesday by speaking with like, 30 Obama supporters, when all I needed was ONE Hillary supporter. (Read story here.)
  
• Last Saturday I went to New Jersey to spend the afternoon with my Gram. That was good. Sometimes it feels really good to get out of the city. Though the suburbs do scare me. A lot.
• Mitch moved into a new apartment over the weekend and out of the rathole he got stuck with after the fire. Thank goodness.
• My internship at ABC rocks. And I can't say anything more about it or Disney will sue the pants off me.
• I registered a Web site. . . . Soon, you'll be able to check out this blog, and everything else on earth I have any control over, on www.kathrynlurie.com. But not yet. I have to make it first. Funny how that works.
• Leonard Nimoy was at school on Thursday to observe the Journalistic Judgment class, which I am not in. I did see him wandering around the school a bit afterward though. He's one of the founding benefactors of my school. Which makes him super cool in my book.
• Just in time for the Oscars next weekend, I have finally completed the viewing of the last of the films that are nominated for Best Picture (a personal tradition going back years and years). I will write my own little one-line predictions in another post.
• I have been pretty ill all weekend and I'm currently trying to will myself into writing my Craft piece for tomorrow. I can't exactly talk because my throat is raw from this crazy severe coughing and near-retching for the past 48 hours. Fun times.

Will.i.am Rocks Too.

Michael Campion Pretty Much Rocks