lance_sibley | Happy Star Wars Day!

I know it's late - after 10PM, and my European and Australian friends are already well into tomorrow, but it's still before midnight here. So...

"May The Fourth be with you."

And of course, that also means...

Happy Birthday

cuteteenboy! Not that he's likely to see this message, since he hasn't been on LJ in weeks...

(I don't normally do the birthday thing, but he's taken every opportunity recently to remind me that it was coming up today. So I figured I'd acknowledge it. :) )

I had a phone message - on Monday, I think it was - from someone whom I had spoken to at Ad Astra, regarding a friend for whom I'm trying to find a place to stay. It seems she knows someone whose boarder just moved out, and so there's an available room. The problem is, he went missing a few weeks ago. So I spent today wandering the streets downtown looking for him. Started out at Yonge and Wellesley, over to Church, up to Cawthra Park (half of which is closed to pedestrian traffic because of expansion to the 519 Community Centre), checked the 519 (where they wouldn't help me because of "confidentiality issues" - bah! Someone's gone missing, and you're more worried about protecting his confidentiality than helping him?), down Church to Carlton, across and back up the other side to Bloor, then over to Yonge. Didn't see him. Of course, it would have been a miracle if I had. I know he's got to be somewhere in the Church/Wellesley neighbourhood, but unless he's found a couch to crash on somewhere, God only knows where he is. I just hope he's okay... I haven't heard from him since he left a message on my answering machine a few weeks ago, saying "I'm not somewhere where you can call me back, so I'll try you again later."

So I came home, reheated last night's leftovers for dinner and watched the last Twilight Zone episode on the season one box set, "The Last Defender Of Camelot."

I've been having some weird symptoms lately. Every so often, through most of my life, I've had these spells where suddenly I feel very detached for a few moments, almost as though I'm not really occupying my own body. My perception doesn't change - it's not as though I'm seeing myself from another point in the room, and I know exactly where I am and what I'm doing - it's just a sort of light-headedness, usually accompanied by a strong feeling of deja vu. I don't know how to explain it any better than that. I've had three or four such spells in the past two days, which is very odd. I don't know what's causing them. The last one was about half an hour ago, though it was mild and only lasted a few seconds. I feel fine now, though. Maybe I'm just tired. Or maybe it's my low blood pressure - my hands are freezing right now. Weird. It's giving me the side effect of feeling like I'm forgetting to do stuff that needs doing, but I can't think of what it is. Most of the items on my To Do list are done, and those that aren't, I have clearly fixed in my mind. So I can't imagine what I might be forgetting. Maybe I'm just feeling strange about being home on a Wednesday evening. Whatever it is, it's most annoying.