I had the weirdest, longest dream last night. Short version: there were government-approved podpeople, and everything on my computer got erased. Boo.
Oh, and that second bit reminds me: I got a blue screen of death the other week! I haven't seen one in quite awhile, and almost pissed my pants.
It was the strangest thing. The day before this happened, I was on a website when I heard some background music start up even though I couldn't see a player on the page. It wasn't exactly a song, or at least one I've ever heard before. There was music, but mostly overlapping conversation fragments that were repeated over and over. One of them was a guy saying, "It's not my decision, but..." and another was a teenage girl saying "Of course there will be no implications (or maybe complications? something with -cations), Mom!" It was kind of freaking me out, but it stopped when I went to a different page on the website, so I forgot about it, until...
The next day, on that website again, I heard the music start! Determined to figure out what, how and why the hell it was, I turned my speakers up... just in time for everything onscreen to go away, the music stopped, and the blue screen appeared. I may have actually screamed out loud, I don't really remember. I turned my computer off, then back on, at which point it turned on normally and has been functioning fine ever since. Whew.
Other scary news:
- As I write this, there's a spider watching me from the ceiling. I've been looking back at him approximately every two seconds to see whether he's moving (hopefully, to a place where I could smash him), but he seems content where he is. Just don't fall on my head or in my water, and we're good.
- "Pet Sematary" and "Pet Sematary 2" are on FearNet's On Demand section right now, and I watched them both last week. It was pretty awesome. I forgot how hilarious PS2 was, especially Zombified Gus. Just my opinion, but there can be nothing wrong about a movie that has L7 on the soundtrack.
- I'm currently reading William Peter Blatty's "Legion," which took me some time to warm up to, but is now a serious contender for Scariest Book Ever award. Possibly even scarier than "The Exorcist," but I'll reserve judgment until the last page is read. I stayed up way later than I should have reading it last night (it's probably what caused my weird dreams), and got hooked again for at least an hour this morning. I'd start reading it again right now, but I'm kind of scared to...
Non-scary book news: I finished one of the June Flaum Singer novels I bought a few weeks ago, "The Markoff Women." It started off great, following the story of a young woman's arranged marriage, then her son's voyage to and assimilation and success in America, and then... the book abruptly stops with what could've been the awesome story of his daughter. Instead, we get to watch her grow up to be a spoiled, social-climbing, anti-Semite (unknowingly hating herself, as her father hid his Jewish heritage since years before she was born) through a couple dozen brief diary entries penned by her father. Boring. All I can say is... JFS, WTF? I prefer to think not that she ran out of steam, but that her publishers told her the book was way too long. To quote JFS' brilliant "The Debutantes": Fuckers!
I'm off to exercise (indoors, it's kind of a thousand degrees outside), but I wanted to end with good news: I got that job I interviewed for and have been working for a couple of weeks. Yay me!

posted by Yvonne at 3:37 PM

