Thu, 19 May 2005

Owen Gets A Cold
So not only did Owen get fired from Carpet Market, he also owed them two hundred for the missing carpet which was now cut all to shit and moved to his ex-girlfriend’s floor. Knowing full well Lou (this is the guy you see in the Carpet Market ads, with the crown and the creepy VHS special-effects) wasn’t above dragging this thing to court, so Owen set out to find a way of coming up with two hundred dollars as quickly as possible. The solution was obvious. Medical Testing Services down by campus wa hiring people with the flu to try an experimental vaccine; two days at a hundred dollars a day including meals and board. The only problem with this plan was that Owen wasn’t currently sick, but that was only a minor setback; this was March, after all, a season of cold and frost and disease. Owen got dressed after his shower without toweling off his head, heading out without coat or hat or scarf or mittens. The best way to do this, Owen thought, would be to find a sick girl and get some serious disease-ridden love action goin’ on. Marching through the snowdrifts in his Chuck Taylors, no longer able to feel his toes, Owen felt for the first time in a long time that his life, at least for now, made some kind of sense.
(12:10.05.19.2005) [/alpha/owenrissa] #