1) ...am ill ( Read more... )

I never thought it would happen to me ( Read more... )

I'm far, far too tired for any sort of eloquence here, but I have to get some Harry Potter love off my chest, ( lest it suffocate me. )

Over the past few days it's become abundantly clear that avoiding all my usual haunts is the only way to stay pristine and unspoiled until the Deathly Hallows fairy visits. I sure can't go to ohnotheydidn't, or even read my friends list. It's not that I don't trust you-it's more that I don't trust me. If you post a link to the leaked pages, I will ( Read more... )

( Cut for spoilery movie talk. )

So Hanson on Howard Stern? Foul mouthed and tasteless and, most importantly, the best Hanson interview since Taylor and Isaac outed Zac by pulling handful after handful of candy bars out of his pants pockets back in 1997 ( Read more... )

Thanks to carpel tunnel syndrome, that scourge of the modern world, I've been sleeping in a wrist brace for about a month now. It's black and synthetic and strappy, and looks like a leftover piece of Janet Jackson's wardrobe from the Scream video. It's not the most comfortable thing I've worn to bed, but it pays off in the long run: once upon a ( Read more... )

I wrote this really long, heartfelt thing on weight loss. And then LiveJournal ate it. Go figure.

So instead all you get are my Deathly Hallows predictions, with a little help from Leaky Cauldron. Sorry.


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I can remember the exact moment when I first heard of the New Kids on the Block. I was 13 years old and it was midsummer and Please Don't Go Girl was on MTV, back when they actually played videos. I was on the phone with my mother, but I hung up without one word of warning just before the second verse. I knew, immediately, that divided attention ( Read more... )

I'm obsessed with Nancy Drew right now. I never read her mystery books when I was a kid, but of course knew of her. Who doesn't? She's the grandmother of everything from Sweet Valley High to Scooby Doo, and as indelibly part of our society as Mickey Mouse and O.J. Simpson.

But I recently stumbled across the fabulous biography Girl Sleuth: Nancy ( Read more... )