27

27th post in this new journal, on 2/7, my birthday.

Way to not even plan that, Simon.

Weird how my sidebar says this is post 25, but my dashboard says it's 27. (shrug)

I've been sick for the past 3 days, with a fever of --at times-- 104, and more congestion in my throat than on 1-85 every time I drive to Atlanta.

So it was not the 26th B-Day extravaganza I'd envisioned. In fact, at one point our neighborhood's owner came to the door and suggested I move my car just in case the water main "exploded on it." That's not my idea of a party. Although, I suppose it would technically qualify as a surprise shower.

I've been dreaming about 2 things:
1) Alias. I'm halfway through the 3rd season, and it's so addictive that if I stop in the middle of an episode to nap, my mind tries to create new plot lines to tie up all the loose ends.
2) Some kind of process that reduces things/people/experiences to cigarette-length Dr-Mario-style pills. And this is the disturbing one because it confuses me so profoundly --both in and out of dream state-- that I still don't understand the who or what or why of it all. All I know is that at one point, the only way I could solve the current problem was by letting my fingers act as a tiny person and climb a ladder built out of these condensed essence pills. I...just don't know.

In any case, this past year has been really great. I'm doing what I love to do, I'm getting paid to do it, and people like me again. It's nice having a lot of friends. I believe in psychological circles, this is known as the Norm Complex: the driving desire for people to call out your name in unison as you walk into the room. I'm on good terms with my sister, my parents are calming down quite a bit, the two-man improv group I'm half of got into DSIF, I've visited Atlanta several times and felt the love, comic books are pretty cool, and I own Rock Band, which makes me the most popular kid at all the parties.

...Here's hoping I don't die in my sleep tonight or something similarly O-Henry-ishly stupid.

Also, new entry up at Trouble in Parodies:
"The Fandom Menace"