take that, mel gibson!

while everyone else is talking about "the passion of the christ" and that whole christ dying and rising again, i'm focused on a completely different kind of resurrection.

i never thought i'd say this, but i have been reuinited with the chair.

well, not the real chair - the lime green armchair i covered with a tapestry and fell in love with in my dc apartment. that is miles upon miles away from my burlington apartment. i wanted to bring it with me when i moved out, but it wouldn't fit in the car. i came close to tears. well, not really. but i took a couple of pictures of myself in it so i could always remember its comfortable goodness.

anyway. flash forward to today, when my parents came up to burlington to bring some more of the items i'd acquired from the family friend who provided the pineapple furniture. among the lamp and the wicker basket/table, my father lugged in a plush sky-blue armchair.

when he set it down in the corner and i was able to look at it for the first time, i squealed with joy. it was my dc chair, reincarnated in blue form! i sank into its plushy goodness and threw my legs over one arm and instantly felt like i was back in the mid-atlantic region, in my bedroom of old. i only needed paul playing guitar near me and chloe watching "the simpsons" in the next room for the feeling to be complete.

since i had neither, i focused on my happy memories and spun the chair around while i reminisced.

it waits for me now, as i finish my hours at the paper and prepare to return home, where i will likely pick out a book to read (as i finished the jones sequel yesterday), curl up and read in my chair of yesterday/today until i begin to doze off to sleep.

happiness.

in other news. after using the wonders of technology to chat with johnoghue and introduce him to pete's musical movie reviews last night, i did, as predicted, have one of the songs in my head all day today. i had expected it to be "the big bounce," but it turned out to be "big fish" after all. he had predicted he would be singing "big fish" all day - i wonder if we just wound up unconciously switching sometime during our respective rem cycles. hmm ...

big fish, big fish, big fish frickin rocks ...