Insomniac

Since I've been working as a school teacher, having the holidays and all, it just didn't feel right to take sick days. So I've been going to work with a bad cold for the past two days (holidays start tomorrow at 2PM).

Because I haven't been able to do much more than crash after work and spend my afternoons in a coma for these past two days, I've been having trouble sleeping at night. Tonight, having watched Gilmore girl's for the umpteenth time, having read a few chapters of Flanagan's The Sound of One Hand Clapping and talking on the prohe to a guy who was just coming home from work, and still not being able to not toss and turn in my bed, I turned on the TV just in time to catch the last two song on Alternative Nation: Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) and Elbow - One Day Like This.

I know the first one by heart and I often quote it. The second just seems to promise a great new beginning for me or at least a nice day tomorrow. I'll take either.

The lovely and taleneted

Here he is. John Van Deusen, a young and talented voice that is incidentally the frontman of Lonely Forest whose album Arrows comes out today.

Since I've heard the song a million times so far and it is starting to sound more and more like a lullaby, the lyrics of which don't even mean anything anymore and you only remember your mum singing it to you over and over, I'll just say I don't mind looking at that sweet face that really does hope for a new life to take it away. I believe him!

Did you know you could do that?

I didn't.

Today you made me run 8 km without stopping. Without feeling tired, without feeling out of breath, without a shadow of a doubt, I thought of you the whole way up and down hills, around corners and among trees. I feel elated, pleased and so proud. I feel sick to my stomach because I know it's you. It really has always been you. Did you know it's you? I didn't. Did you know I would fall for you? I didn't. Did you know you could do this to me? I didn't.

Do you know we can never be together? I do.