Fun note: this post has taken me about a week and a half to actually finish.

Important baseball things (with inadvertent hockey and football cameos):

Dustin Pedroia, how so friggin awesome? All four and a half feet of the scrappiest grinder in the game was named AL MVP to go with his Gold Glove and Silver Slugger, which means that at this point the ( Read more... )

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Things that I have learned from watching reruns of the fourth season of Gilmore Girls:
1. Paris and Rory were completely gay for each other.  Like, no joke.  They're a little old married couple.
2. Jason was not as obnoxious as I remembered him.
3. I really hate Jess, but I love Jess reading the self help book.

I went to the first meeting of a knitting ( Read more... )

For those of you who haven't heard, writer David Halberstam was killed in a car accident this morning.  He was 73 - but had spoken at UC Berkeley this weekend, and was on his way to interview someone for the new book he was writing.

For no particular reason, I love David Halberstam.  I associate him with two things, first of all: Simon Winchester ( Read more... )

I'm playing catch up.

First:
Moved into the house I'm housesitting/renting for the next year or so.  And it's fabulous.  Big and empty and MINE ALL MINE YAY.  No one cooks me dinner anymore, but no one fights me for the remote, either.  And I now have cable internet, which means that I'm online.  A lot.  Did I mention that it's right on the river?  ( Read more... )

First off: tagged by
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I had this long, long ranty thing written out, and then Avant quit on me.  Three times.  So I'm downloading Firefox, because I should have a loooooong time ago.

Okay, tonight in tv:

The West Wing was a big ol' up and down.  Because some of the moments were pitch perfect - Jed going to Margaret, Abbey's obvious concern about Jed, everything that ( Read more... )

I need to stop talking about television, etc, but a few things before I move on to the real life stuff:  ( babble )

I am an embarassing squeeing little girl.  Some silly commercial for Bob's Sports Stores or whatever, featuring the Red Sox, and I am reduced to a giggling, hysterical fangirl.  I want to go to Feeeeeeeenway!!!

The OC has gotten lame.  I have not watched it for three weeks, and I find myself not caring.  Marissa sucks.  Seth?  has yet to make me ( Read more... )