Yesterday at 3:45AM, I took my boyfriend to the airport so he could see his family over the Christmas holiday. Three hours later, I was also dropping his mobile phone, in a box, into express mail after he forgot to bring it with him to the airport. (On a side note it's quite expensive to express mail a mobile phone... so, I wouldn't recommend it.) While he's gone, I've plenty to keep me busy - a mountain of fish to genotype, a qualifying exam to prepare for, and other such graduate school formalities/challenges/excuses-to-drink. But, of course, since he isn't slated to return until quite late on Christmas, I also needed recreational means to spend my time.
Thus, when I went to Scarecrow Video yesterday to return an Israeli film my boyfriend had rented last week, I decided to be cool. Sure, I'm spending some of "the holidays" alone, but I was going to rent some awesome, kick-ass, generally cool films to watch in my non-graduate-school/non-excuses-to-drink moments before Zach comes home and we can open presents.
So, when I left twenty minutes later with Muriel's Wedding and Casablanca, I obviously had to admit I'm a failure.
But, failure is an excuse to drink the bottle of cheap white wine I've been saving for just such an occasion.
Posted by James at December 20, 2007 08:35 PM