I headed over to the festival tonight after rehearsal, intending to see two films. I ended up seeing only one film because (1) I had a long day, and felt sufficiently ready to go home after the first movie, and (2) the first movie was so good I didn't want to follow it with anything else. I saw Satellite, a sweet and slightly twisted love story ( Read more... )

Seen on the cover of AM New York yesterday (roughly the exact wording, I didn't keep the paper):

Pope Benedict Seeks Unity
New Pontiff Reaches Out to Jews and Other Christians

So, in other words, "unity" means "unity, as long as you're one of us Judeo-Christian types." Grumble grumble.

In my third year of living in New York City, I'm finally going to see some films at the Tribeca Film Festival. The problem is that I finally got around to looking for tickets halfway through the festival. So I took out the festival guide, did a very complex job of checking my schedule availability versus what I was most interested in seeing, and ( Read more... )

Even with the stress I'm under this week, this story had me laughing out loud. Seriously. And it just makes me want to get a Roomba that much more.

This day has been a pretty awful one. Broke up with my boyfriend, found out my school doesn't exist anymore. But I just got news that puts it all in perspective. My friend who's been serving on the front lines in Iraq as a marine just made it home, safe and sound, and is DONE. *whew* Welcome home, Dave. You've been missed. And that's one ( Read more... )

Inconsiderate people on public transportation just infuriate me. I read a letter to the editor in the newspaper this morning from a woman who said that she'd discovered the fastest way to put people on the subway to sleep was to have an 8 months pregnant woman walk onto the car. (By which she meant that, as an 8 months pregnant woman, the second ( Read more... )

I'm not one of those cat owners that minds her cats on the furntiure. Heck, I've practically ceded my desk chair to Molly, who uses it as her personal scratching post and favorite napping spot. (I need a new one of those at some point, one that isn't so scratchable.) But the one place I try to keep them from getting is the kitchen counter. ( Read more... )

I saw a story on CBS Sunday Morning this morning about new bankruptcy law that Congress is trying to pass. It would essentially make it harder for people to file Chapter 7 bankruptcy, allowing them to eliminate their debt, leaving more people the option of Chapter 13 bankruptcy, in which they still have to pay down a significant portion of the ( Read more... )

I've always considered myself someone who thrives on change. I've never minded going through turmoil. I'm not the type to hide in a corner and wait for change to pass. I LOVE progress. (None of this "But this is how we've always done it" bullshit for me.) I was never a big fan of staying at one job for more than a year or two, because then I ( Read more... )

It's interesting what a combination of being raised in an English professor type house, growing up in Texas, and then moving to New York will do to a girl's language.

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