I just got an email from Borders: - reserve the new HP and the DH and choose from one of two stickers that say "Trust Snape" and "Snape is a very bad man." What, like we can't trust him in this matter and think he's a bad person?

I bet they've had this email waiting to be sent out for months and just needed to fill in the date of the release.

After my post complaining about Drew's sleeping habits he went and gave me the bird by sleeping for 11 hours last night, while only getting up twice to nurse and then immediately going back to sleep. Given a bit of luck he'll prove me wrong again tonight.

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About three weeks ago a gal came into my Mommy-n-Me session saying she was a casting rep for ( Read more... )

RE: BLOGGING I'm really surprised that so many people did not consider themselves bloggers  in my last post. I wonder if my having posted that blurb about the lecture I'm going to above the question skewed the results. Because occasionally people ask me if I have a blog or if I'm a blogger, and I always answer yes. Probably it just means that I'm ( Read more... )

I'm going to a lecture next month at my university which will be about how society views online forms of blogging differently. Specifically, the lecture announcement states: In the popular imagination, there is a distinction between "blogs," which are assumed on some level to be doing public work, whether political, techincal, academic, or ( Read more... )

You know the drill - where'd I pull these quotes from - and no googling for cheats!

1. I want to kill everyone. Satan is good. Satan is our pal.  - The Burbs

2. Look around you - can you construct some sort of rudimentary lathe?

3. Over the mysteries of female life there is drawn a veil, best left undisturbed.

4. Husbands should be like Kleenex: ( Read more... )

This is the AFI list of 100 top movies of all time. I bolded the ones I've seen and I italicized the ones I own (or have owned - we had a fire and I've never recovered all the ones I used to own and left with my mom when I moved out). I have 52 left still to view. I need to get on the ball with others before I don't have time to see them. Damn.

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We just admitted someone to a Ph.D. program with full scholarship plus a VERY healthy stipend (and no teaching obligations attached). She's 18. And oh, did I mention? She's already been published in several peer-reviewed journals, has a shockigly good academic record, and is far too nice for someone who's only 18. But even so... she's still only 18 ( Read more... )

Any "The Usual Suspects" fans out there? You'll get a kick out of this.

The person who replaced me in my old job is a gal named RC. Prior to becoming my replacement RC worked at a law firm where Christopher McQuarrie, the screenwriter for "The Usual Suspects" had worked. The law firm had a lawyer named Kaiser Sume (pronounced sue-may), and when ( Read more... )

Have you guys seen the TOM CRUISE KILLS OPRAH animated gif? It made my day like you wouldn't believe.

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