I cheated on a test once.

( Which probably explains the otherwise-inexplicable loyalty to the Gene Wilder-Zero Mostel version of The Producers )

So, I've been trying to cut down on my snacking with no results, so when I was at the grocery today I picked up some Slimfast.  I've never used it before but other members of my family have with fairly decent results.  I had one after dinner, and they're right, I'm not hungry.  I feel like I'm full.  Not just my stomach not wanting anything but ( Read more... )

And it figures that if I was hallucinating, it would be hallucinating music. In any case, I thought I heard someone plinking away at "Happy Birthday" on a piano somewhere off in the distance, and it turns out that Winamp was set to play classical music v. v. quietly and I had forgotten about it.

The fact that I honestly thought for a sec that I was ( Read more... )

In the past couple days, I have rediscovered:

• the cheerfulness of the early Beatles,
• the excellence of the soundtrack of "Remember the Titans",
• the importance of chocolate,
• and total human depravity.

Which is a pretty weird list, I'll grant you.  The first two were due to random WinAmp shuffling issues, the third to my (admittedly ( Read more... )