Happy feast of Februata Juno to all you orgiastic romans out there. Last night was lovely. After a month of me screaming at the TV / Matt no diamonds, teddybears, chocolate, or flowers, we decided not to go out to dinner, but that Matt wouldn't work all night. (This is shocking. He always works when he gets home from work. The computer is my ( Read more... )

Did I mention that STEPHEN COLBERT came into the 'bux last friday. And sat around for an hour and a half. There was barista swooning. We are nerds.

That is quite possibly, and sadly, the most interesting thing to happen to me recently. Aside from my high school friend Rachel crashing on my floor for a few days.
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I applied for three jobs yesterday. The more I do it the easier it gets. I no longer spend a month rewriting a cover letter. Now if I could just actually get a job. I'm thinking more and more of quitting the 'bux regardless. But then I couldn't spend ridiculous amounts of time drawing byzantine boards to pimp tea.


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Does anyone else get excited around February, because Black History Month = hella lotta documentaries? I sure do. On all the channels everyone gets their Ken Burns on, even VH1. They tone down the flippant and bring in the experts. Even for 'Black in the 80S' and 'And You Don't Stop: The History of Hip-Hop' So many documentaries, so little time. I ( Read more... )

Happy 300th b-day of B. Franklin. The most hyped non-Eagle in the city of Philadelphia. Wanted to go out to one of the pre-fixes the restaurants are doing to honor the day. But Matt's not feeling it, so looks like we'll be cooking tonight. I feel like my eyeballs are going to fall out of my head. (Unrelatedly.) They've been pained a lot lately. ( Read more... )

Hey Chloe, did you notice the man who created American Gothic (Shaun Cassidy) also created Roar? This guy rocks at making tv shows that only I like. Although I've yet to watch Invasion even though it has that guy in it, and I always love projects that have whats-his-name character actors in them. Like American Gothic (Sarah Paulson and Gary Cole, ( Read more... )

From Slate:
Smoking during pregnancy boosts the odds that your baby will have the wrong number of fingers. Smoking 10 or fewer cigarettes a day increases the risk of too many, too few, or webbed fingers by 29 percent. Smoking a pack a day almost doubles the risk. Question: Will grossness make this warning more effective than previous cigarette ( Read more... )

There's not enough hot water in the boiler for a shower. Not even half a shower. I can lather up the shampoo and shave one leg before it all goes cold. So my hair is nasty and I need a shave, but it's all moot when it comes to a cold shower. You can't get a proper shave or rinse in frigid water. I've tried switching to a hot bath soak with shave ( Read more... )

Have you ever watched the Tyra show? I mean, really watch it? It's insane. Cringe-worthy. Yesterday Quentin Tarantino was on and she had a foot-fetish contest for him, and was asking him about his sex life at 16, and generally being clueless and psudo-gheto and a trainwreck. Today's show has her 'drag squad' "surprising" people with ambush ( Read more... )

So the insomnia has kicked in (or is it the 30 year old mattress that I have to sleep on? The jetlag backlash?) and I'm wide awake looking for something to do. So far I've ripped nearly every halfway decent CD in the house and now am re-genre-ifying them, as itunes always is off the mark in terms of classification. And as it is Christmas/Hanukkah ( Read more... )