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My sister came to Chicago yesterday to give me the presents she had for me. A very belated and excessively extravagant birthday present was the centerpiece: blu-ray player with netflix streaming. Also, There Will Be Blood on blu-ray. I haven't watched that yet because I don't have the right kind of cable to hook the machine up to my roommate's projector in the living room and I don't have a HD televison in my bedroom. So at the moment we're streaming videos to the projector and I'd either need a wi-fi card or a rather long ethernet cable to use the Netflix in my bedroom. My sister says I should get my mother to get me a new TV when she comes to take me belatedly Christmas shopping but there are probably fifty things I'd need sooner. Of course, she kind of likes gadgets, so we'll see what happens. My sister also gave me a bottle of some new Calvin Kline cologne, which is pretty nice, as well as some picture frame with a picture of me and her and one of me and Zac at her wedding. It was nice having a relaxed day off. I actually have two days off in a row this week. I'm going on Wednesday to see The Addams Family (the musical with Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, with Anastasia on Wednesday. Adding to the extravagance of how she bought me an overpriced ticket to that, we're also eating at Vermilion, a fancy Indian restaurant I hope she won't expect me to pay for. I may have mentioned I'm rehabilitating my defaulted student loans so I can take out more in the fall and about how those payments have cut massively into my disposable income. I've renewed my commitment to write about all the movies I watch over on my neglected film blog, which I have called Blue Film Journal. I've already watched ten movies this year, although, to be truthful, two or three of them might have been in the final days of 2009. Fortunately that doesn't matter at all. What matters is that my most recent post about the six movies and one tv show I watched in the last 48 hours is posted here. Films include Funny People, Half-Life, Humpday, Taken, Strange Culture , and Paris 36 . If it makes you feel better, the items listed above are the only gifts I got this year. So it means the only Xmas gifts I got were the picture frame and the cologne, aside from the 20$ gift card I got for Chicago Diner from the employee secret santa and the 8 Women that Mark procured for $6 to replace the one his ex-boyfriend stole from me. The previous highlight of my birthday were the I, Claudius books I got from the Jew. At times I consider wanting a television, but only for one reason, which is that Camille and American Psycho instilled the desire to manically multi-task deep within me. So I picture myself doing exercise routines to Agnes Varda movies or Apocalypto, or walking from room to room watching three different news stations on three tvs at once like Camille used to, and then I start laughing.

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I might have gotten fired because I made too much money - legally

I used to work for the Library of Congress. My one-year probation was first extended, then my job was "terminated" because I owed the IRS money and my student loans had defaulted. This was all because of abuse at the hands of my ex-spouse (believe the shit out of me - I would not put myself in this situation. Anyone who knows me at all knows this beyond a doubt of a shadow). And this of course didn't matter at all to the Library of Fascists. When I started that job, I went to see a woman in HR who, when looking over my paperwork, noticed I was being paid $56,000 when I should have been paid $72,000, and she told me about and fixed this error (thank you, lady!) It just occurred to me that, among my other little theories (because clearly their reasons for dismissing me are so bullshit there are no records of it in my personnel file), someone deliberately moved my pay into a different category and when this error was spotted, they didn't want to pay me that much even though my job function at that level required the $72,000 salary. I'm a full-time musician. I live with my wonderful girlfriend and wonderful-but-sometimes-annoying cats. Although my instruments are all electronic, I like to live as close to nature as I can and cook over a fire as often as possible. I collect rain water, sometimes for drinking, sometimes for other uses. My girlfriend is also an artist who makes many wonderful things, and we share a studio space in our home.

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