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June
29
Took today off. Ramon comes home today. I hope I can eat soon
without throwing up. I miss food.
June
28
In bed all day trying to make the room stop spinning. I’m
hungry, but I can’t really eat.
June
27
Today was hands down one of the worst days of my life. My
period started today and it is fierce. I’m talking cramps
that go on for a minute and so much blood I feel lightheaded.
Right now I would trade my ovaries for testicles without a
second thought. I was going to go over to Ramon’s to
do some work so I loaded up my backpack and got on my bike.
I got across the street when a man opened his car door without
looking and I slammed into him.
Let
me put this into perspective for you. The car was parked.
I was riding alongside the parked cars, there was a car driving
beside me so I had nowhere to go. I hit the door with my left
shoulder and flew off my bike for a few feet. I woke up on
the ground. I remember hitting the door, but not the flight
through the air or hitting the ground. People came from everywhere
to help me and the cyclists who were behind me yelled at the
guy in his car. He was in tears when he came to see me on
the ground. He knelt down and kept asking me if I was okay.
I finally got up and moved over to the sidewalk to sit down.
I didn’t realize how badly I was hurt until later. My
friend Serge took me to Emergency and I found I had a mild
concussion and badly bruised everything. I am sitting here
trying to write and my head is pounding so badly I want to
vomit. I won’t go into the treatment I received at the
hospital. It was bad.
When
I got back to Ramon’s house four hours later, I called
to tell him what had happened. He was so upset he offered
to come home. I told him I was okay and that he should stay
where he was and finish the convention. But inside I thought
it was nice that he had immediately said he was coming home.
That made me feel good.
June
26
After work I met up with Bonnie and we headed out to our favorite
Peruvian restaurant. Carla and Deidra were waiting for us
and as soon as we sat down the sangria began to flow. After
dinner and a few bottles of sangria, we decided to head to
another of our favorite places: The Reservoir Lounge. When
we got there, we saw that Mark was working and after talking
about it we decided to go in anyhow.
My
friends are the best. Even though they wanted to go and listen
to the band, they would have gone somewhere else if I was
uncomfortable. That’s friendship for you, always knowing
that your friends are there. I love them.
Ramon
called me to tell me he made it to Ohio for his convention.
I miss him already and can’t wait for him to get home.
Sleeping alone is strange.
June
25
Zombies! That’s right, I went to the premiere of ‘28
Days Later’ and while there wasn’t as much chewing
as I thought there’d be, it was still a pretty creepy
movie. The guy who directed ‘Trainspotting’ directed
this movie, and you can tell by the camera angles and all
the weird shit he did. If you like chewing and gore, this
movie may not do it for you. Although it is pretty bloody,
it ain’t no ‘Dawn of the Dead’.
June
24
Ramon leaves tomorrow for four days. We were up until 3 am
saying goodbye (wink, wink) and I realized we spend almost
every day together. What the hell am I going to do when he’s
not here?
June
23
After work today, a bunch of us went to the pub for dinner.
Ramon met me there and after we finished eating we went back
to his place.
June
22
I went to see Nick Cave. Who the hell is he anyway? I
still don’t know, but my god did he put on a fabulous
show. It was awesome. Simply awesome. The end.
June
21
Solstice. And no better way to spend it than with Carolina
and Bonnie. After brunch, we met up with Bonnie and went to
check out a venue that Carolina and I were thinking of selling
our soap at. Then we walked back to my place, and Carolina
and I went to do some stuff. After that, I met up with Bonnie
again and we headed out to Carla’s for Girl’s Night.
W e ate, drank martinis and watched Sex in the City. Goddam
I love that show. I went back to my house for the first time
in a while and slept there. It felt really weird.
June
20
I took Ramon to meet my mom today. I was so nervous as we
went to meet her that I couldn’t stop shaking. I kept
praying the whole time on the subway; Please don’t let
her be a freak just this once. Please. I’ll be good.
I’ll sacrifice whatever you want, just please let her
be normal. And she was. We had a good time. Then Ramon and
I went shopping, went back to his place and had a nap and
then I worked. Ramon’s friend Bill came over and we went
to Insomnia for a couple of drinks. Then I went to bed ‘cause
I was tired.
June
19
Met up with Carolina and Anna after work today. We went to
a surreal bar on the Danforth that I swear to God someone’s
grandma owned. In fact, not only does she own it, but she
works the bar too. She made Anna’s rum and Coke so strong,
Anna had to get an extra glass of Coke to dilute it. Yikes!
And the wings sucked ass. There was an annoying white trash
woman sitting behind us who every so often would make her
presence felt by shrieking out the name of whoever happened
to be passing by. My stars, I wanted to smack her. She finally
shut up when she passed out on the patio and some guy carried
her home. Nice. What day is this? Welfare day?
June
18
HULK IS STRONGEST!!!!!! I loved the Hulk. I don’t give
a rat’s ass what any of you think. I loved it. The End.
Period.
June 17
I did two tapings for Space today; one for toys and one for
comics. I have such a great time doing that. After work, Ramon
met me and we went for sushi with Bonnie. Then we went to
Indigo and Bonnie bought books. I just stared at them. I realize
that I have a problem when it comes to books. I just can’t
get enough. I read all the time; so to be without a book is
like being caught without mascara on. It’ll never happen,
folks.
June
16
Boring day. I don’t know why I get out of bed some days,
and this day proves that. Should have stayed home.
June
15
Pretty uneventful day at work. It was Catharine’s last
day working with us so we took her out for some food and drinks
at our local watering hole. It’s weird though, because
she’s not going anywhere, it isn’t like we’ll
never see her again but we still feel the need to mark the
occasion. Weird.
Our
bathroom ceiling is still not fixed.
June
14
After brunch, I went home to help Bonnie clean the apartment.
I am embarrassed to say how filthy the place was. So I’m
not going to. I think though that I will look into hiring
a maid to come in twice a month to do the cleaning from now
on.
Our
bathroom ceiling is still not fixed.
June
12
Good day at work. I don’t know why, it just happened
that way. Going out with Julie tonight. Going to Ramon’s
for sex first, though. I won’t see him tonight, so I’m
going to his place to have my itch scratched. Julie and I
are meeting up later.
Okay,
so when I got home Julie was there. Cool. She’s actually
on time. Terrific. I wanted to take a shower because I’ve
been riding my bike and I don’t feel quite fresh. Julie
goes to the bank to deposit her paycheque, and I step into
the bathroom to have my shower. I am all psyched up for it.
I can almost feel the warm water stripping away the layers
of grime that have settled on my body since this morning.
I turn on the tap. Nothing. Just a wet gurgling sound. I scream
silently as I realize I am not going to be able to have a
shower before I go out. But I am a bright girl so I heated
up some water from our cooler thing that we have and washed
my hair in a bucket. Camping girl. It wasn’t as good
as a shower, but it was pretty damn close.
Our
bathroom ceiling is still not fixed.
June
13
Friday the 13th. Last one of these happened in December of
last year. Remember that? I do, because that’s the day
I went in to have my nose fixed so that I could actually use
it for breathing purposes. Bad memories. But today was good.
Met my momma for lunch and chatted. Bought my comics and toys.
Met my girlfriends for dinner, and Serge tagged along. I haven’t
seen him in a while, so it was nice to sit down and chat with
him. After that, I met up with Ramon and we went to a housewarming
party for his friend Paul and his girlfriend. They just moved
in together. So we get there, and Paul meets us in the hall.
It’s a small gathering, he says. Seven people, including
us. Wow. So we stayed for while, and then realized that we
had to run if we were going to make the last subway home.
Interesting evening…
Our
bathroom ceiling is still not fixed.
June 11
I really can’t top yesterday. I was so tired from all
the crap last night that I pretty much wanted to go to bed.
But I didn’t; I went to Carolina’s to do some stuff
instead. Ramon called me to ask if I wanted to meet him and
his friends for sushi, so I did. And almost fell asleep at
the table. When we got back to his house, I showered and went
right to bed.
Our
bathroom ceiling is still not fixed.
June
10
Met with Willow this morning to talk about some comic stuff.
There was a gathering over at Ramon’s for our monthly
comic book pow-wow. It’s usually hosted by Willow, but
since she’s moving I volunteered Ramon’s place.
Without asking him first. My bad.
Julie
met me at my house later. She’s staying over because
we both work very early tomorrow and I thought it would be
good if she stayed with me because I live downtown and she
doesn’t. At around 3 in the morning, we were woken up
by this strange sound; a constant splattering of liquid coupled
with a squeaking. I thought that something horrible had happened
to one of my cats. I got up, and met Bonnie in the hall. She
and I discovered that the tenants upstairs had left their
tap running and their sink had overflowed, causing water to
cascade into our bathroom. There is a crack in our ceiling
that property management has been promising to fix and the
water cascaded down in a single sheet. It was really quite
beautiful, until I remembered it was my bathroom. Not only
that, but the water had somehow figured a way into the light
fixture and was streaming down making a sizzling sound. We
shut the light off quickly. Safer that way.
By
now Julie was up and after hurriedly explaining what was going
on, I ran upstairs and hammered on the neighbor’s door.
I could hear the water running in their bathroom, but no one
answered the door. I knew someone was home because I had heard
them moving around earlier. Bastards. Anyway, I couldn’t
rouse them; so I ran down to wake the super. Bonnie continued
to pound on the door. Julie sat on the floor and consoled
the cats, who were very upset at the sudden change in their
environment and the fact that they now had to use their litter
box in the hallway with virtually no privacy. The super checked
our bathroom, said a few choice words and ran up to the neighbors.
He pounded, no answer. So he let himself in and turned off
their taps while Bonnie stood there and watched. Some security
thing I guess. We cleaned up the bathroom to the best of our
ability, shut the door and went back to bed. The super told
us he’d get someone in to look at it and have it patched
in a couple of days. We’ll see.
I
think my favourite part of the whole event was that in order
to go to the toilet we had to hold an umbrella over our heads.
And cat litter was everywhere. Holy shit is that stuff hard
to clean up when it gets wet. Since we couldn’t use the
light, we had to use Bonnie’s mountain climbing light
that straps on to your head. Nice. And the toilet paper was
damp. So basically, it felt like we were camping on a very
rainy weekend. And then we had to get up and go to work. I
have no idea how I made it through the day. None.
June
9
Today I received in the mail the printer’s proof of our
comic. I am so excited; I can’t wait to see what it looks
like in black ink! I was a little confused when I first opened
it because I didn’t know it was supposed to be blue.
I panicked a bit, and then calmed down when I was told it
was a proof. It’s weird after working two years on it
to finally have it printed. I won’t truly believe it
until I am actually holding it in my hands.
June
8
Party was a success, but I’m not telling you anything
other than I dropped my pants a few times. And was given a
helmet to wear because people thought I was going to fall
down and hurt myself. I met these freaky, weird, fucked up
people but I can’t tell you their names. Ooh, but I want
to so badly because they are so messed up with their newfound
Christianity and their mate-swapping and loud belligerence.
They left the party before it even started because of the
looming threat of SARS. How retarded is that? The rest of
the party was great. But I’m not going to tell you anything.
June 7
Shit. I forgot I had to work today. At least I get out of
helping Ramon set up for the party. I left early…and
I don’t feel like continuing this entry.
June
6
I am finally able to sleep in and guess what? That’s
right, I was up at 7:30am. I couldn’t sleep anymore.
I did my laundry, met up with Ramon and pretty much just hung
out. Have to make sure I am fully recovered for Ramon’s
party tomorrow…
June
5
I did two rounds of taping for Space today and I think I have
run out of personality. So I’m going to just skip the
rest of the day and tell you the juicy bits: Went for dinner
with Bonnie and Deidra and got hammered on martinis. The end.
Fade to black. Oh, and I was hung over from last night. Double
whammy for Sarrah.
June
4
Okay. Deep breath. First of all, it rained all day. All fucking
day. I had to go get a cake and when I finally found one I
liked, do you think I could find a cab? Let me back up a bit.
Today was new comic day. I barely slept last night because
I was so excited about today. Ramon is 30 today, and I’ve
got something really special planned for him. So I hardly
slept, got up at an ungodly hour and went to his house to
surprise him. I wanted to be the first to wish him happy birthday.
So once I got to his house, I slipped out of my clothes and
snuggled up to him. Then I went to work, did the comic taping
with Mark, ran around downtown for some last minute things
I forgot, went home and picked up my clothes for tonight,
bought the cake and stuff to go with it and tried to find
a cab. When I couldn’t find one, I took the subway to
the bar we were going to. I was dropping off the cake, and
so I had all these bags full of clothes and presents and then
the box with the cake in it and I thought for sure someone
would be a complete prat and trip me but lo and behold I made
it in one piece. I bought Alien and Predator action figures
to go on the cake, so I went into the kitchen at the bar and
stuck them in the cake. I posed them to look like they were
going to have a food fight with candy and, well…it looked
really good. Ramon was really surprised when he saw it later.
It was a good night, and everything went according to plan.
Now I can sleep.
June
3
I am trying to get everything in place for Ramon’s birthday
tomorrow. I am really stressed out, trying to be the perfect
new girlfriend and make sure everything goes the way I’ve
planned it. When I close my eyes I see cake. Argh! Today is
my boss’ birthday, so we took him out for Thai food.
Then Bonnie and I went to the pub to drink our stress away.
June
2
Today is the Queen of England’s birthday. Why should
we care? We shouldn’t, but she’s royalty and we
all love watching them on TV so hurrah for you, Lizzie. It’s
also some sort of holiday in Ireland and I am embarrassed
to confess that I don’t know why. So much for trying
to learn about my heritage. Screw it all anyway. If it were
so important, we’d know.
June
1
So it’s June now, and I’m still freezing my ass
off. I can’t figure out the weather at all. The radio
says one thing, and Mother Nature does another. So now when
I leave the house I take a survival package complete with
sweater, umbrella, sunglasses and gloves. Because I don’t
want to freeze/get wet/be blinded anymore.
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