mandalay

hooky

what a beautiful day. because i've been rather stressed at work lately, i decided to play hooky today. yesterday i got my hair cut and hung out and then drank a beer with my, uhh, stylist (can you call a boy a stylist?) and once i started with the beer i wanted to keep going. so i talked to sophia for a while and then went over to shelby's and watched some heated ping-pong before we went and got free chipotle. mmm. it was a long easy evening and while i was there i was thinking, man i so don't want to go to work tomorrow. so i didn't. i stayed in bed till 10, got up, screwed around on the internet, showered, and then decided to watch alias, which i'd recorded last night. BUT when i was channel-surfing, waiting for the tape to rewind, i couldn't believe what i saw on tbs. that's right, folks, "Ed" is in syndication. rejoice! i freaking love that show! and not only was it right at the beginning of the episode, but it was possibly my favorite episode ever, the one where warren is trying to figure out what to do because he had this moment with a girl on top of a mountain and they talked and he was really upset because he didn't kiss her and he was afraid that his "window of opportunity" had closed and that now they could only be friends. it's the same episode where ed dresses up like colonel sanders so he can be best man in the wedding of this couple whose decision to get married was contingent on whether the bowling-challenged boy got a strike. and he did. man i love that show. anyway, i watched that and then began alias, all giddy from my ed discovery. about 1 or so i decided i should probably eat something and realized i'd left my leftover chipotle at shelby's, so i called him to see if i could come by. he insisted that i take another free card rather than have leftovers, and since he happened to be home for lunch, he left one on his dresser for me before he had to go back to work. so i drove over there, taking the scenic route through barton hills. i got out jeff buckley's "grace" and drove around in the sunshine (it has been too long, sun!) with the cool air, man, so nice. for some reason, taking a day off during the week is always better than a weekend. because it's like everything else is still happening, but you're the one who's taken the time to slow down and enjoy it. and it made me really happy that there wasn't a moment today where i took a break to go outside and had to think "man, what a beautiful day. i wish i wasn't at work so i could enjoy it." because i'm not. and i can.

posted by amanda @ 2:49 PM