doomed: the diary of an hourly partner

the end.

i've got a lot of free time. my new job doesn't start until saturday so i've got time to spare. today i was literally lying around in my underpants watching tv. it's what i do. it's kind of a pain to watch actual cable because we don't have a clicker, so i either put it on vh1 or tbs and just leave it. or i watch "the royal tenenbaums" on dvd and fall asleep to it. i've done that 3 times this week. but seriously, of those three things, it's all i watch.

but today i watched "jerry maguire." it's a good movie, i guess. i think it's worthy of the oscars it was nominated for. have you seen it lately? the older i get, the more i realize that "happy endings" aren't so happy. jerry stays with dorothy, but that's only because he is still afraid to be alone. and he need a business partner. and he's crazy about that little boy (who, even though i've seen this movie a bunch of times, still takes my breath away at his cuteness).

same goes for "high fidelity." the more i watch that movie, the more i really fucking hate it. john cusak's character makes no sense! i could go on, but my point is that the only reason he and his girlfriend got back together is because they were too lazy to stay broken up. watch it again and pay attention, they broke up for some really good fucking reasons.

maybe these happy endings weren't meant to be literal happy endings, but still. i can't tell what's more disappointing: the fact that they really aren't happy endings, or that when i was younger, i thought they were.

posted by kate @ 2:30 PM