azureladybug

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful: The Lord God made them all.

Tuesday, April 13, 2004

April Showers

Yuck yuck yuck. And not in that Three Stooges way. It is raining, terribly so. My asthmatic cough has manifested in such a violent way, I'm waiting to expectorate my bronchioles. It has left me fairly lethargic since Sunday. I got the least amount of rest last night in a while due to said cough. Aurora looked concerned at varying times. She sat with me last night while I tried to sleep between my coughing fits and she occasionally attacked the mist from my humidifier (which needs to be replaced as it seems defective). I'm taking hits off my inhaler a few times a day now and keep my office door closed so I do not disturb my fellow co-workers who also give me that very concerned look. I'm drinking lots of fluids, but I apparently need lots more.

As I was saying, it is yucky and raining and that isn't helping my cough. Cold and wet is conducive to hacking... as is the new flowers that are out (I hate those pollen filled flowers... lilies, tulips, dandelions... v. bad!) which is agravating my asthma further. The summer cannot come quickly enough.

I'm hoping that if my asthma clears up enough, I'm going to make it out to Boston next weekend to visit old college friends. From my freshman roommate to a fellow theatre producer. Fanueil Hall and Harvard Sqaure and all those Bostonian men. I love that movie Boondock Saints with Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus as fraternal Irish twins who become vigilantes in Boston and Willem Dafoe as a very gay FBI detective with a penchant for opera. And who doesn't want to catch a movie with Ron Jeremy? What a gem! It's got a great soundtrack too. Now, while I won't be in any meatpacking plants in Boston, I'm sure I'll be able to find a few local pubs to have a ball in. That's next weekend--hopefully sunnier and warm.

Speaking of movies, I caught Hellboy while it rained last night. A long movie, but lots of fun--Ron Perlman is superb as Red. He definitely steals the show. More could've been done with Liz Sherman's character development. Well, a great little action movie that could cover my hacking cough with explosions and action sequences. Damn cough! Too bad there isn't a relic that would keep it away.


Reading: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
At the Movies: The Girl Next Door with Emile Hirsch and Elisha Cuthbert