For years, I've admired my friend Joanie's systems for keeping track of which books she's read on her bookshelf. She takes gold foil star stickers (the types teachers use) and sticks them on the spines of the books that she read ( Read more... )

Is anyone else excited to see Watson play Jeopardy next week? The computer is playing against Ken Jennings, who won 74 Jeopardy games in a row, and Brad Rutter, who won the most money on Jeopardy ($3 million dollars). I would be excited just to see Ken Jennings back on Jeopardy, or just to see Watson on Jeopardy, but both of them on the show is ( Read more... )

I just found out that the local high school is is performing a musical called Urinetown.

I had to leave the room at a friend's house while they were watching Toy Story 3 because it was making me too emotional.

Last week at work, a man in his 90's talked to me about his "lazy, no-good son" who he had been having trouble with lately.

He said he didn't understand kids from his son's generation. His son is 63.

I took 4 books back to the library and brought home 3.

The New Yorker cover last week by Roz Chast is killing me! We get the magazine at work ( Read more... )

Kris and I were talking about Annie's hair after the movie, and I didn't think the actress was wearing a wig! I must have been in denial, because the internet is telling me over and over that it was a wig.

Another hair conspiracy: I suspect that they did something crazy to Sandy's hair in the movie. His coat looks like it was teased or permed.

I saw Annie for the first time in 25 years last night at Allison’s and Phil’s house. I loved it super much as a kid. When I saw Allison put the dvd on, I thought would want to make fun of the movie and my 8 year old self ( Read more... )

My favorite used bookstore is Rodney's. I only found out it existed because a friend told me about a great bookstore that was going out of business and was having a half price sale to get rid of their inventory. The used books were already half off, and then they took another half off that, so everything was a quarter of the list price. Kris and I ( Read more... )