Am I one of the few people not watching the Oscars right now? I have to confess to having no interest in them, probably because I've seen none of the Best Picture nominees and few of the others. I do want to see Million Dollar Baby, Ray, and Hotel Rwanda but just haven't gotten around to it yet. It's actually amazing that I've seen only one ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm slacking with my LJ again. I have to say that I really am not quite sure where all the time goes every day. I'm not entirely idle, but certainly it's not like working full-time, and yet there are still tons of things that don't get done. I had all these grand ideas about what I was going to do with my time off, which included being a ( Read more... )

My favorite exchange from tonight's Desperate Housewives:

Therapist: "You'd settle for that - a life filled with repression and denial?"

Bree: "And the dinner parties. Don't forget the dinner parties."Hilarious - I love that show. As someone in TV Guide wrote this week, the sitcom may be dying, but some of the so-called dramas on TV - ( Read more... )

Things I have spent entirely too much time this week doing:

• getting my health insurance figured out - COBRA is such a mess, and I know that it was actually a big innovation and I'm lucky to have health insurance, but I spent at least 3 hours this week trying to get it all straightened out. My best piece of advice is to make friends with the ( Read more... )

So when I saw Michelle this weekend, she reminded me that it's a good idea to google yourself once in a while just to see what's out there about you. Well, I did that today and found this crazy article railing against America Votes and the various progressive interest groups, which used the article I was in in the Wall Street Journal as an example ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to write again and haven't gotten around to it. I think it's because I have a few long posts floating around in my head about Hillary Clinton's comments on abortion and Katie Couric's special on teens and sex. They are coming soon. So here are a few quick notes until I have some more time to sit and write ( Read more... )

Yesterday's complete description of current music should have read "the song from 'the wedding date' commercial, which i completely want to see even though the entire plot is obvious from the commercial." The song is actually "Are You Diggin' On Me?" by Joss Stone, which is also on the Bridget Jones' Diary: The Edge of Reason soundtrack. I'm a ( Read more... )

So I'm inspired because I just found out my friend Rachel from NH (well, we met in NH - she's actually from Texas) has two blogs, which are awesome. And the amazing freedomfry really outdid herself with the snarky version of Bush's inaugural speech so head over there and check it out. I decided to "celebrate" the inauguration by completely ignoring it, ( Read more... )

Wow, two days in a row. Maybe I will be able to make this a habit. I had a really good meeting today with Michelle, who runs the PP state office. Looks like I'm going to be working there two days a week as a consultant, working on various projects, especially to build up their action fund. I have to figure out what to charge for my services, ( Read more... )

I'm finally done with my very long break from my blog. Of course, I'll probably have to e-mail my few faithful readers to let them know that I am again blogging, but whatever. The blog will give me something to do during this time off. Tomorrow it will be three weeks since I left NH. It sort of still just feels like a really long vacation. Not ( Read more... )