so here's the DEFINITION of "awkward" :

i just watched 'the 40 year old virgin' with my parents. ouch.

today the ninth new email on my screen announced a memorial service for my old music professor, beth bartlet. this made me really sad. (you say, well duh, mariel, of course you would be sad if someone you knew died.) but maybe i'm not sad so much as guilty? because all last fall, i really hated that woman. and for no good reason. because her ( Read more... )

saturday was brilliant.

coldplay was exactly as they should be live: complicated melodies, british honesty, and a sense of humor. even though chris martin and his bandmates were about an inch tall from my seat in new zealand, the music is what matters, and they were fantastic.  especially the encore...the four part harmony in the end of "fix you" ( Read more... )

there's one on bustedtees.com that says "pedro lacks political experience."  hahahaha.  maybe i'll buy it.

but then i went to tshirthell.com and they have a harry potter spoiler shirt, and now i know who dies in the half blood prince and i'm only on the fourth one!  damn you.

They say that after four minutes without oxygen being pumped to the brain, as a result of heart failure, a person dies. But as Kristen calmly explained, three months ago her heart stopped beating for a full fifteen minutes. And here she is, right in front of me, living and breathing, with no brain damage or excessive damage to her heart muscles.

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in time of daffodils(who know ( Read more... )

i almost broke my finger at work on friday ( Read more... )

monkey one: (in british accent) i heard tom wolfe was speaking at lincoln center.
monkey two uses sign language
monkey one: well of course we're going to throw poo at him!

i almost died laughing.

back to the movie, i'll update my life later.

i knew it.