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Everybody’s sick

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In case you’re wondering why I haven’t posted, Excuse #1 is that I’m a lazy SOB. Excuse #2 is that we’re all sick. This isn’t flu season, is it? The kids have diarrhea (but nothing else, which means I have two very energetic kids I have to watch like a hawk). I have an upset stomach (last night I felt so nauseated I sent Darin out to the store for fizzy water), a sore throat, and irritated Eustachian tubes. I don’t know what’s going on with Darin—he’s still getting some sleep.

I need a mommy to come by and take care of us today. Darin’s going to go to work and I’m going to be here with the kids, with no energy and feeling like crap.

Blech.

Update: Okay, this has been a Bad Mommy day. I don’t think I exactly have the chills, but it’s 70 in the house and I need a sweater. I have a throbbing headache. I couldn’t take the kids anywhere if I wanted to. Basically, I’ve said, “Tell me what you want me to put on,” because that’s about the extent of what I can handle right now.

Simon’s definitely too sick to go to school tomorrow, unless he shows miraculous improvement in the next 18 hours. Of course, his energy and attitude are fine; it’s his intestinal tract that needs work.

A friend called today, and when I mentioned I was nauseated she said, “Oh, morning sickness?” No, not morning sickness. At least, I don’t think it is. Wouldn’t that be ironic, given the planning that went into having the first two? The three main reasons we aren’t going to have more babies: 1)we already got the two most perfect babies in the world; 2)I’m not at all sure I could deal with three, given how neurotic I am with two; 3)I had nine months of terrible morning sickness with Simon (after only 4 to 6 weeks with Sophia) and really, really cannot face doing that again.

HGTTG trailer, redux

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Darin and I were at dinner tonight:

            DIANE
        Did you watch the Hitchhiker's trailer?

            DARIN
        It looks great. I don't know why you 
        said you needed to plan your life around 
        April 29, though. It says May 6.

            DIANE
        It said April 29.

            DARIN
        No, it didn't. Who's in it?

            DIANE
        Mos Def plays Ford Prefect. I don't 
        know who plays the other roles though. 
        Like the rock star. What's his name?

            DARIN
        Hotblack Desiato. Something like that. 
        But he doesn't show up until Book 2.

            DIANE
        Oh. Well, they're at some rock concert 
        in the trailer.

            DARIN
        No, they're not.

            DIANE
        Yes, they are.

Beat.

            DARIN
        Where did you see the trailer?

            DIANE
        It was some weird URL. I figured the one 
        at the Apple site had better bandwidth...

            DARIN
        You didn't check the link, did you?

            DIANE
        Uh oh. I figured it was just the same one.

            DARIN
        No. Evidently not.

There are in fact three trailers now available. The one I had seen was (and was attempting to point y’all toward) was Trailer 3. I had seen it at a site that evidently got a hold of it a little ahead of time (when the release date was still April 29 and not whatever they’ve decided upon now).

So now go watch the trailer.

Hitchhiker’s Guide trailer

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One of the seminal moments of my young life—possibly as a freshman in high school—I found a book at the local B. Dalton’s that said, “Don’t panic!” in large, friendly letters. I picked it up and laughed my butt off (I didn’t say “ass” yet) and kept reading parts of it to people at school, all of whom thought I was an utter nincompoop with a weird book. So be it.

Well, the BBC radio series-cum-novel-cum-TV-series is now a movie, and despite the fact that we all know all of the jokes by now, we’re going. I have now planned my life around April 29, 2005. (Watch the trailer; you’ll get the joke.)