Work sucks of late. That is, there has been too much of it.

Still, I had enough time off to go see ( Prisoner of Azkaban. )

Oof. Had a truly spectacular weekend accident involving dogs, leashes, and Rollerblades. Don't ask. My elbow is disturbingly technicolor, and I have a leashlike raw stripe around my thigh.

I finally got around to seeing the season finale of The O.C., too. Did anyone else watch the end and then go rewatch the first episode? And then rewatch the ( Read more... )

WHAT HAVE THEY DONE WITH MY POOR A WRINKLE IN TIME?

Dr. Murray looking up "tesseract" on the Internet? I don't THINK so.

We flew the two hours to my parents' this weekend for my mom's retirement party. She's a middle school English teacher. She had invited students and friends and family. There were about fifty people in all, including my first grade teacher, old classmates, kids she'd taught and told me about. I couldn't get over the gaggle of 11 to 18 year-old kids ( Read more... )

Crap! out late after overnight shift, sleepy and stupid, went to the garden center for a climbing rose to replace the dead one and promptly lost my wallet.

Some days it's better to camp out on the sofa, you know? I'll watch the latest from Netflix (Punch Drunk Love and Charlie's Angels Full Throttle, what was I thinking?). Fuck the whole ( Read more... )

Johnny Depp's going to be Willy Wonka? With Tim Burton directing and Danny Elfman scoring? whoa.

So does this mean that there will be musical numbers, or not? And will they be new ones, or the old songs with Elfman arrangements? Will there be oompa-loompas, or would that be too politically incorrect in this day and age?

Fascinating! The marathon coverage continues all day in our fair city, even during the ads (in a little set-in screen in the upper left.) Now they are showing people crossing the line at the 4-hour mark . . . on their knees! No, seriously, this one fella collapsed three yards from the line and then crawled across it. And oh, look, they just put a ( Read more... )

Marathon Monday! Those runners are gonna fry--it'll be 85 degrees here by early afternoon ( Read more... )

And now for a little gloating ( Read more... )

( Spoiler! Big fat casting spoiler! That I neglected to LJ-cut! Sorry! )