The Fly

by chris cunningham

Oh man, life can be cruel. Today I’ve been packing and getting ready for the big move to New Zealand on Monday. All afternoon this fly was buzzing around my house, so I finally decided to give it a break and try and show it the door. Ya know, why not, they only have a short little life span. Anyway I go over to the lamp it’s buzzing around and try and shoo it away. It keeps avoiding me and I’m about to kill the thing when just then I swat at it again. I accidently hit the lamp and it tilts to the side and the dumb fly goes right for lamps ledge that was tilted up. Oh man. You stupid, stupid, little fly, I was trying to help you.

I’m moving to Wellington, New Zealand until the end of the year to work on Lord Of The Rings. I’m keeping my place in L.A. since it was kind of last minute and I really like where I live. They’re providing me a place to live and a car for the duration. So financially it’s not really any different on the bills side of things. Actually a bit better. I’ve got everything on auto pilot while I’m gone. All my bills can be paid automatically or by phone and the rent is taken out of my checking account.