Slip Sliding Away

I know a woman- became a wife
These are the very words she uses to describe her life
She said a good day ain't got no rain
She said a bad day is when I lie in bed
And I think of things that might have been
Slip sliding away, slip sliding away
You know the nearer your destination,
The more you slip sliding away
-Paul Simon song Slip Sliding Away

I don't know if many of you suffer from migraines but (for me) the worst part is the post-migraine hangover. I have spent the week lying on the couch watching television or reading. I finished reading Wicked:The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West this week. That was not the book to be reading in my post-migraine-emotional-weirdness state but then again maybe it was perfect. The surreal dream world that Maguire created was hard to climb out of each time I laid the book down.

When I wasn't reading I was listlessly mesmerized by the television and playing channel check with a vengeance. I don't think I stopped at any one station for more than 20 seconds the first couple of days. Then I discovered ER is on three times a day on two different channels; twice in the morning and once in the afternoon. Even better the episodes are from Season One and Two. The only problem is that the episodes in the morning are the ones when Carol Hathaway was with "Tag" and the afternoon episodes are the "Shep" as Carol's boyfriend ones. It is a little confusing to jump from one story line to the other because I keep jumbling them all together in my head. While watching I felt like Dorothy in the movie version of The Wizard of Oz when she says, "My! People come and go so quickly here!"

Note: I have a theory. All television programs are done by the end of the third year. At that point the writers are just going through the motions.

This is also the week of the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction. The greatest example of unbridled, conspicuous, consumer consumption in the world. A glorious thirty-three hours of it is being televised on the Speed Channel. Each night Speed Channel ends the program with a tally of just how much money has changed hands both that night and during the auction so far. I love every obnoxious second of it.