I've got this giant fishtank sitting in my room, collecting dust and gutted Vogue issues. The way I figure, I should put it to use by either getting more fish (my last ten collectively kicked the bucket two years ago), or - and this is a more salient choice - a hamster ( Read more... )

I need to return mom’s bf’s digital camera. That foolish, foolish man lent it to me a month ago and I can’t bring myself to part from it. It takes awesome panoramic pictures! It shoots movies, for crying out loud! It is the coolest gadget I’ve laid my hands on since that time I fondled a Kitchen Aid mixer in Williams-Sonoma. How can I return it now ( Read more... )

Thoughts of Professor Severus Liberace Snape somehow led to different thoughts about Galaxy Quest last night. Was that movie ever funny? I *think* I liked it back in the day, but was that just because of Alan Rickman or because of the movie’s other - less tangible - qualities? It surely could not have been because of Tim Allen. His Tool Time ( Read more... )

Bought the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets DVD today, and watched it with the French subtitles, because that is how all movies should be enjoyed.

I did catch the movie on the big screen whilst on a babysitting gig, but I made the fatal mistake of refusing to buy my little 6 year old charge a drink, so I missed large chunks of the action ( Read more... )

What did I ever do to Career Services at my school for them to forward me the following email:

Economic View: In This Recovery, a College Education Backfires

March 14, 2004

By LOUIS UCHITELLE

ROBERT B. REICH called them "symbolic analysts." They were the college-educated workers supposedly insulated from the global pressures that condemned ( Read more... )

Oooh, who knew dolphins are raking in such serious cash these days? I hope they have a union going.

<< The museum is the site of Dolphin Quest, where visitors can swim with and learn to communicate with Atlantic bottlenose dolphins. The cost is $135 for a 30-minute encounter. Ages 10 and up; 11:30 a.m. daily and 10:45 a.m. and 3 p.m. Wednesday ( Read more... )

I read all about it in a hospital waiting room. I also read all about it in Vogue a few months back, in much more pleasant surroundings, unencumbered by wailing infants, consumptive alcoholics, cantankerous hags and their ilk. Oh, Uma, if you had spent at least two hours of your intense year in this waiting room, not even your dickhead of an ex ( Read more... )

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