Dumb and hawt

09.28.05

Song of the Day: Jet - Look What You've Done

While cleaning out the text messages on my phone today, I came across this priceless one from J:

"DUMB AND HAWT, THAT'S HOW I LIKE 'EM!"

Amen, sister.

01:33 AM [link]

I get a visitor!

09.27.05

Song of the Day: BT - Sonambulist (Simply Being Loved)

Today Amy informed me that she's officially coming to visit during her Fall Break. This calls for a major "IEIEIEIEIEIE!" I haven't seen her since last winter when she came to the city for a Greek conference, and even then we only got to meet up for dinner.

And, as if to confirm that October is shaping up to be the Best Month Ever!!!, I just put in my pre-order for Robbie Williams' new CD, which comes out on the 25th. I was shocked that Amazon's price was only $11.99, given that it's an import. There's also a version being offered for $24.49; I'm not sure what the difference between this one and the $11.99 one is, but the more expensive one has the wrong cover art and release date listed. Hopefully this won't end up being one of those "too good to be true" things.

04:00 PM [link]

Dream Me tells 'em how it is

09.26.05

Song of the Day: Robbie Williams - Tripping

Do you know what makes me feel all-mighty and powerful?

When someone tells me that they dreamed they went streaking in public...all because Dream Me told them to.

Who knew I commanded that kind of power? I can't wait to find out what other sorts of mischievous things Dream Me can do.

10:50 AM [link]

Breast cancer goodies

09.24.05

Song of the Day: Shakira - La Tortura

I have one weakness that I don't feel guilty about: I'm a total sucker for buying things that benefit breast cancer research. Breast cancer is an issue that's more than a little close to home for me, and I always find myself dropping money without blinking whenever companies promise to donate a certain amount if you buy something from them.

Sephora and Clinique are two makeup companies I love that never fail to join the charitable cause, and right now I'm trying to decide what I'm going to buy. Sephora has a whole page of items to choose from, and they donate 100% of the net proceeds from their assortments of mini products. Clinique has a shimmery all-over powder that's tempting as well.

Tons of companies will be having their own charitable items since October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so keep your eye out for the chance to buy something that benefits an important cause.

06:35 PM [link]

Kick-ass

09.21.05

Song of the Day: Kosheen - Wasting My Time

There's nothing like wearing a pair of knee-high boots to make you feel like you can kick anyone's ass.

11:54 PM [link]

Chick lit

09.20.05

Song of the Day: Tori Amos - Liquid Diamonds

I hit the jackpot today when I checked out Borders' 3 for 2 book sale - they had both The Time Traveler's Wife and the fourth book in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next quartet, which were both books I'd been dying to buy, as well as a few intriguing titles to pick from for the third (I ended up with Carlos Ruiz Zafron's The Shadow Of The Wind - I usually don't like buying books I haven't read before, so we'll see how it is).

The last time I went in there, the 3 for 2 sale included The Time Traveler's Wife, but nothing else that I wanted to buy - it was all chick-lit. And I have major issues with chick-lit.

Chick-lit, as it's been branded, is like Bridget Jones. Hundreds of pages of prose about weight loss, dating, fashion, and not much else. Sure, I found Bridget Jones endearing, but then again, I only saw the movie. I just can't fathom why the market has been flooded with hundreds of chick-lit novels.

You can always tell chick-lit by its cover. It's one of two things - a picture of shoes, or a cartoon of some impossibly skinny, lanky, leggy woman in a fablulous outfit. Just as the content of the books are wanting for some variation, so are the covers.

And the term "chick-lit" is possibly what infuriates me the most about the whole situation. It either implies A) the "chicks" in these books are completely representative of the female population as a whole (which is entirely possible, but those who know me know that I'd never be lumped in with them), or B) these books are the only sorts of books that "chicks" read.

I'm a girly girl. I like reading about fashion and makeup in women's magazines. But I'm a girly girl with a brain. I want novels to be at least a little intellectually stimulating.

09:40 PM [link]

Mackin' on the Green Beret's wife

09.15.05

Song of the Day: Madonna - Don't Tell Me

This memory popped into my head today while I was busy trying to keep my eyes from glazing over during Business Orgs. It falls under the "I've dated my fair share of stupid idiots in my life" category.

For those who don't know me well, here's some background. Two years ago, after two years of being off and on with him, I dumped a mega-asshole. He was eight years older than me, and at the age of 28, he'd never been dumped before. He was such as asshole that when I dumped him, he cried, and it made me feel good.

A few weeks after I dumped him, he IMs me one day and says, "I just got home from *insert random female name here*'s house." This caused me to cackle, since I knew he was really saying, "Hey, be jealous, be upset that you dumped me, 'cause another woman is paying attention to me." So I politely inquire about this woman just to play along. He says he met her at the gym, and they've been hanging out a lot lately, and that no, they're not dating, because she's married. To a Green Beret.

Yes, my brilliant ex decided to put the mack on the wife of a Special Forces officer.

After gleefully informing him that he was going to wake up without his skin someday, he says, "No, no, she's not interested in me like that, her husband has been away for months, and she's just lonely."

She's lonely. So she picks up a guy at the gym. Who she has no interest in sleeping with. Yeah right.

I mean, a look at the principles here: If my (non-existant) husband had to go away for months at a time, I would fully expect all of my close friends, male and female, to keep me company. But a random stranger of the opposite sex?

"If her husband gets upset, I'll just explain myself." That was his defense.

I'm so sure that A) a Green Beret is going to sit there and patiently listen to a strange man he doesn't know explain why he'd been spending so much quality time with his wife, and B) the Green Beret is going to laugh at him as much as I do.

I stopped talking to him not much longer after that, so I never did find out what happened with the situation. As much as it was a relief to no longer have to put up with him, he was a major source of my amusing stories.

10:45 PM [link]

Bones and allergies

09.13.05

Song of the Day: Texas - I Don't Want A Lover

For the last few months, I've been using "Anti-Viral" Kleenex that supposedly kill off cold and flu germs. Not because I actually believe they'll work, but because they were a good deal at the grocery store.

Do they work? Not if my current condition is any indication. I actually want to stick my fingers down my throat to scratch everything that's itching in there. I'm so ladylike, I know.

And this week starts the new TV season (I don't count The O.C., that show drives me nuts). Tonight I'll be checking out Bones and Supernatural. Bones because it has David Boreanaz in it, and I've always enjoyed the projects that Buffy alums do. Supernatural because, well, hot guys. Honestly. That's my only reason for tuning in, because the two guys in the ads for it are simply gorgeous.

I'm looking forward to getting to watch Grey's Anatomy, The Office, and Arrested Development again. I'll be a much happier girl once NBC offs a poor-attempt-at-being-newly-funny sitcom and puts Scrubs back on in its place. I'm still not interested in watching Lost or Desperate Housewives. I've never been one for the popular vote.

Off to buy some medicine to make my nose calm down.

01:41 PM [link]

Cat lady

09.10.05

Song of the Day: Lange feat The Morrighan - Follow Me

Yesterday when I was at the grocery, I saw an old woman pushing a cart the was overflowing with cat products. There had to be 50 cans of food, four containers of litter, and other assorted cat junk.

I had a sudden vision of that being me in 60 years.

Charlotte Martin's song "I'm Normal, Please Date Me" appeared in my mind about .5 seconds later.

If I ever do go on a date again, would it be acceptable to fall to my knees and beg, "Please, please save me from being the cat lady!" Or would that be more appropriate on the second date?

I jest. I think.

12:30 PM [link]

Good karma at work

09.07.05

Song of the Day: Robbie Williams - Better Man

Today's randomness:

I jokingly tell J that I'm about to check my school email, and to please pray that Con Law is cancelled.

Amazingly, there is an email from my Con Law prof's secretary saying, "There will be NO CLASS TODAY."

I'm a little nervous, because it's like I used up Karma Points when I didn't really need to. I would have been just fine with having Con Law today. What if I end up missing out on something that I really wanted because my Karma Points were allocated to class being cancelled?

I'm well aware that I think too much.

01:26 PM [link]

Memories

09.03.05

Song of the Day: Lisa Stansfield - People Hold On

This weekend, I'm home in Columbus going through all the stuff in my room so that my mom won't have to do it when the house sells. I'm separating things into piles - what can be thrown away, what can be stored at my dad's place, and what will be brought back to Chicago with me.

I've come across some really cool stuff (TV Guides with Buffy on the cover from 1997), some really nostalgic stuff (shoeboxes filled with every note my friends ever passed to me during high school), stuff that scared me to death (pictures of the ex I dumped two years ago, when I thought that I'd destroyed everything relating to him), and not-so-scary stuff (the box of everything my first boyfriend ever gave me, which I still appreciate).

I've also found a stash of chocolate that my friends gave me sometime in high school. Two questions go through my mind: A) How the hell did chocolate survive this long in my presence? and B) Is it still safe to eat?

02:37 PM [link]