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ANGELINA JOLIE'S TWINS WERE BORN ON MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!1

Let's judge the names. I think they're awful.

Fin.

Did anyone see Entertainment Weekly's list of New Classics? I thought the list was really fascinating, and I felt excited by the sheer breadth of genre, type, popular and less so. I've read fifteen of them, and many more are in my immediate queue. How many have you read?

Okay. Has anyone read (or tried to read) a book called Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl? If not, this won't be relevant, and I'll have nobody to talk to...but...

THIS BOOK IS INFURIATING ME. It is the literary equivalent of a show pony: overwrought, overwritten, psuedo-intellectual, pretentious. The similes are amazingly bad ("his ( Read more... )

It's the kind of day I wish didn't happen.

Because Eve was awesome and everyone liked her. She had so much yet to do. This happened in a neighborhood right across the street from mine.

I'm in shock. The news is spreading all throughout this town (of which the university is its heart) and everyone's going into shock.

Sad, sad, sad.

Rach...Ames...I am eagerly awaiting a Golden Globes dressdown.

Amy might have work. In which case it falls entirely on your shoulders, Rach.

I was stuck in the airport/on the runway for FOUR HOURS last night, so I did not get to watch any of it. Ha! As if I have TV, anyway.

ALSO. Can I get a head count of who'd be down to see Rounds on Saturday, January 13th, at 8pm? My sister might be able to work some comp magic. So let me know if you're plannin on comin.

QotD1: How did your parents meet?

My parents met in their first theology class together at grad school, at Marquette. Dad says he was "on the prowl" and Mom was one of the first babes he laid eyes on.

QotD2: What is annoying you today?

Definitely my mouse. The mouse and the cursor are having a communication breakdown.

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I am expressing myself through a LiveJournal entry, all the more because I have Crest Whitestrips in and I can't speak; moreover there are great reservoirs of warm saliva gathering in my palate ( Read more... )