1) A gorgeous, very slender girl browsing the weight loss section. When she turned around and I saw her face, her eyes looked sunken in and not so girlish after all. An anorexic-in-action ( Read more... )

Me, answering phone: Medical Billing, this is Megan.

Person on other end: Hello?
Me: Yes, can I help you?
Person on other end: I thought you were one of those automated machines.

A machine who introduces itself by name and waits for a reply??

So sad. The literary world (and the world-at-large, for that matter) has lost a great icon.

Does anyone know anything about dreams being affected by pheromones or wave proximity to other dreamers? I used to not remember my dreams, but since beginning to sleep next to a vivid dreamer, I've not only begun remembering my dreams but am having recurring ones as well. Lately they've taken the form of picture books--I read the text and can see ( Read more... )

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While browsing through Pottery Barn Kids in a spate of decorative fervor for gingham pillows for my guest room, I discovered that PBK makes sheet sets for children in king size. Whether those children are very large or just plain spoiled doesn't matter; it's an even earlier symptom of the problem the lovely flurije and I were discussing yesterday: high ( Read more... )

( Only Randy-Mackers will be interested in this... )

Oh no.

Even the stalwart J.Crew is now selling footless tights and leggings. Now there's no hope!

I suppose I should be happy because they're a move towards modesty (sometimes miniskirts are a little too mini), but still.

So the boy and I returned, reluctantly, from our weeklong sojourn in the UK. Well, not "sojourn" so much as "whirlwind tour through Leeds, York, Cambridge, and London"... which brings me to the point of this entry. With the exception of Cambridge, wonderful land of leisurely walks to tea in tree-shaded lawns and cool outdoor evening presentations ( Read more... )

amazon.com's romance bestseller list for 5/23/06 has Philippa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl and Zadie Smith's On Beauty in its top 25... for some reason, I don't think they belong in the same category as Nicholas Sparks and Nora Roberts.

Also, Philip Roth's latest, Everyman, is #6 on the fiction & literature list. How many of the people buying ( Read more... )