Resolved: Tazo chai is better than Stash
Yesterday, I suddenly found myself totally enervated about five minutes before I was scheduled to tag along to the grocery store with my friend Nathan (at least I wasn’t suddenly starving). I couldn’t figure out why, until I remembered that I’d gotten about five hours of sleep a night for the prior two days.
Damn, I thought to myself, I’d better get to bed early tonight! Rest up!
Naturally, what happened instead is that I watched two episodes of The Young Riders on DVD* and got about six and a half hours of sleep before I had to get up for an eyebrow waxing appointment.**
So now I’m finishing off a big mug of chai and preparing to pop open a Coke Zero, because otherwise I will end up taking a nap and be totally fucked. And I have to transcribe. God.
For more adventures in not getting enough sleep, see my father’s recent experience chaperoning the high school Spanish club lock-in:
The Lock-In
More about the Lock-In
The second entry references my own seventh grade marathon Totally Sleep-Free Three Days, which ended, as I recall, as I was desperately trying to stay awake for an airing of The Young Riders.
Right. Transcription. Blergh.
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*Did anyone else watch The Young Riders? As the linked IMDB entry indicates, it ran three seasons from 1989 to 1992. I was introduced to it by a high school student babysitter who referred to it as “[her] cowboy show.” Ironically, the show ran longer than its subject (the Pony Express) did; the “cowboys” were probably cleaner and better looking than the real thing, too. Following in the wake of Young Guns (1988), it was clearly an attempt to ride the Wild West Wave and sell a whole stable of strapping young heartthrobs to impressionable young girls like myself (maybe not primarily that young). The writing is bad and the acting is ridiculous, but I still like it. I’m glad I preordered it months ago when I first heard it was coming out.
**I had already forgotten about and slept through a previous appointment last week. Keely told me that it was only $10 at Cha Cha, the little salon that’s only a block from my house, and since the cosmetology school is STILL not doing waxes, I decided I’d give it a try. I liked the girl who did it; I think I may go back there for my next haircut, just to give it a try. The staff is very counter-culture-looking in general, and thus not fazed by my hair the way the beauty school instructors (not so much the students) always are.
March 25th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
And don’t forget, they filmed it, or at least some episodes, right near our former home town, Tucson, AZ. Didn’t we once see a corral out west of town that had been the setting of one episode?
March 26th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
I don’t remember the corral, but didn’t Nancy work on the production staff? I looked for her name in the credits and didn’t see it, but it’s only the first season. Did she have a different surname then?