November 22, 2005

• escape from reality
  
  
  lies are such a great way to escape from reality.  i'm normally a
  really bad liar (i turn beet red at every single mistruth I tell) but when i'm in
  "the zone" i can really get carried away

  like the other day, when i caught a cab from my apartment to the office

  Cabbie (slightly disgruntled at the short ride which definitely won't
  make the meter jump) "So do you normally take the cab to the
  office?  You live so close, you can walk."

  Now I could totally come clean and just confess that I was too lazy to walk,  but for some reason this came out

  Me "Oh no, I can't walk.  The air is too polluted.  You see, I have asthma."

  Viola! I instantly got the cabbie all sympathetic. "Oh you poor girl! That's teeeeeerible."

  mildly amused by his reaction, and curious as to where this could
  take me, I proceeded to weave a pretty elaborate lie from that one
  line.  Oh no,
  I didn't have it as a kid, it developed in recent years.  Yeah,
  probably because of the deteriorating air condition... Asthma is
  quite common these days isn't it?  Lots of people are catching
  it.  Oh really?  Does swimming
  help?  No, I don't get attacks that often, I carry an inhaler
  around with me, plus I sleep with the humidifier on at night.. it really helps!!!  Philips makes really good ones...... 15
  minutes of pure bullshit and I didn't even bat an eyelid.  I was
  so caught up in it that I even gave an obligatory cough and smiled
  apologetically (see? told you I'm fragile!) as I climbed out of the cab

  fun fun fun

  ********************************
  my cable box broke and i am w/o TV and it's driving me insane. i
  finally had
  to yell at PCCW to get some attention from their customer
  service.  that's after 7 phone calls without anything being
  solved, mind you. i hate losing my cool.  why is yelling the only
  way
  to get your way in this town?
  ********************************
  i rough-handled hobbes for fun and he scratched a big arc on my arm
  with his nail as he meowed a massive protest.  i am staring at the
  scatch now... small spots of red are slowly appearing from underneath
  the skin to fill up the open wound. the space between the dots
  are connecting to form a thin red line down my arm. 
  bloody
  cat.  god knows where his nails have been

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  gah!  PCCW is out of my type of decoder box.  no TV tonight

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