I just had a heart attack.

I checked my bank account online, 'cause I can do that. I've been doing it for several years now. The first part of the main page of my account shows a breakdown of the (1) account balance, and (2) available balance, for both my checking and savings accounts. The second part of the main page shows the two loans I have out: one is the loan I took out to pay for my $2000 computer; the other is my line of credit (a modest $500 checking overdraft).

Recently, I used credit to pay for something and so under the "loan balance" column, it says "$50.38", and under the "available balance" column, it says "$449.62".

But for some reason, as I scanned the numbers, I thought the $50.38 was in the available balance column and my heart pounded right through the walls of chest, splattered on the monitor, and left a trail of blood as it slid down the screen, turning my vision red for one hazy moment.

Still in a panic, I checked the detail pages for my checking account and the checking overdraft account, but there were no transactions listed in the 449-dollar amount. I clicked back to the main page and looked more closely at the figures, finally discovering that I'd had a heart attack explosion for no reason.

And I can't figure out why it happened; I've never gotten mixed-up about the columns before! And it's only been a few days since I last checked it online (which I do quite often, by the way).

I have to go calm down, now... I know my blood is still racing.

I'm not from your country.

So. Tuesday night we went over to the Borders on 57th & Lex to see Eddie Izzard, hysterical British comedian. After standing on line for the Queer as Folk signing last year for several hours (I think it was just about 5 hours?), we arrived 2 hours early, despite having not eaten. We stood in the piping hot basement floor of the place, chatting and waiting for the man to arrive -- scheduled for 6:30.

That was the hard part.

When he arrived -- on time -- he did about 15 mintues of a half Q&A session, half stand-up improv. Which was great. He had his beard, but for some reason -- I thought -- looked much better than he had on the Craig Kilborn show.

So by 7:00, we were already into the "signing" part of his appearance. We were toward the front, but even so we had to wait about half-an-hour to get up to see him. They had staff on the side, taking pictures if you provided the camera. I gave over my camera, so I got a few shots... however, I wanted to take a posed photo with Izzard, but completely forgot. =( Ah well. It was fun to meet him, in any case.

Good shot of Izzard!
Izzard & us.
Izzard & us, again.

After the signing, we left to eat at the mall, where we ended up staying to talk for quite a while. And when we got home, Liz went to do some homework or something (this is at 10:30pm already), and I decided to take a look at the DVD I'd just bought. It's the DVD of the show that's been running on HBO a lot lately, but it had some extras, like Izzard's performance in France, and some other things. I think it was worth it. I'm completely looking forward to his next tour. I know he'll be passing through NYC next year, I wonder if I'll be able to see him then. ::must remember!::