Do you like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain?

Here is a question for all the other old folks out there: does it ever strike you as strange when you see These Kids Today drinking coffee ( Read more... )

Today I went to deposit some checks at the ATM during my lunch hour. I was vaguely destracted because I was on the phone listening to my dad tell a story about how he found a dead, petrified juvenile raccoon in the attic today (don't ask), so I didn't really pay attention to the person walking away from the machine ( Read more... )

I'll play! And I think most of these are gimmes, but I'm still at work and can't really think of anything too creative. So here is the latest meme by way of, oh, everybody:

1. Pick one dozen movies that are ones that you have special feelings about ( Read more... )

I am feeling very Jennifer Garner-y today because I am wearing my new glasses which are a lot like the glasses she was wearing in last night's episode. I am fonder than I should be of Ms. Garner; basically because she has my exact same hair -- color and texture and all -- and both of us have kind of pointy-ass chins, I hope she stays famous for a ( Read more... )

Thanks to you all for the wonderful birthday wishes. And a very happy birthday to thatgirlemily as well. She and I lived in the same dorm our first year at Wellesley and met, I believe, during first year orientation when they took a big panoramic picture of the class of 1999. We were sitting next to one another on Severance Hill and I overhood her say ( Read more... )

Because I am oh so behind on my movies, I did not get around to seeing Napoleon Dynamite until last night. I have had an unbelievable craving for tater tots ever since.

Also, I would like to thank the fine people at Proctor & Gamble for inventing their new product,

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Package update: still MIA. I woke up in the middle of the night stressed out about this. It is so funny: about many things in life, I am very laid back and Type B, but this is the type of thing that turns me into a Type A Stressball. I start doubting myself: did I forget to put the postage on? Did I not tape the package up well enough so it ( Read more... )

I am sure everyone who was interested did this months and months ago, but since I found out that Santa is not bringing me an iPod for Christmas (Santa is fairly blatantly anti-Apple around these parts), I figured why the heck not try it this way ( Read more... )