Goddamn McDreamy

10.30.05

Song of the Day: U2 - Salome (Zooromancer Remix)

I'm bitterly angry.

Dr. McDreamy picked his cheating wife over Meredith.

I have spent every Sunday night since the fall TV season started wanting to strangle him and mentally wishing him back to Meredith. And now, after she finally did away with her pride and gave him her passionate "pick me" speech last week, all he can say to her question is, "Yeah, she's my wife." This is after he spent weeks calling his unfaithful wife "Satan" and telling Meredith she was a "breath of fresh air." I think he may have broken MY heart.

They better fix this as the season goes on. Because this is just Not Right.

As a side note, I just want to say that Ellen Pompeo, the actress who plays Meredith, is the most beautiful woman in Hollywood. Forget all those other overhyped actresses and singers, this is the woman who I wish I was as gorgeous as.

11:54 PM [link]

Loopy fun

10.28.05

Song of the Day: Four Star Mary - She Knows

What I learned today: people who are drugged up on codeine and muscle relaxers are really, really amusing, especially when they totally slur their words and don't realize they're making all sorts of funny noises. Not that I'd advocate people horribly wrenching their backs just for my amusement, and I'd certainly rather my friends experience pain-free existences (not counting the fact that they have pain-in-the-butt-me in their lives), but if it's there...

I just watched Angelia Jolie's movie Life Or Something Like It, and I wasn't expecting much since I remember it getting absolutely horrible reviews. Talk about a surprise; it was the best movie I've watched in a while. I think the last time I was so pleasantly surprised by a movie was when I saw Big Fish. It's pretty sad that I've gotten 87 movies from Blockbuster's DVDs-by-mail service this year and so few of them have actually left me really, really happy with my selection.

02:00 AM [link]

Damn stupid bitch

10.27.05

Song of the Day: Foreigner - Juke Box Hero

A few entries ago, I complained about my Legal Writing professor who is a complete (pardon my language) dipshit. Today, she just confirmed that even more.

One of the requirements that she kept harping was that we use gender neutral language in the partnership agreements we were writing. When I looked over the corrections she handed back today, I noticed that she'd circled where I had written, "Each partner shall record his or her own hours into the accounting books." I asked her what was wrong with it, and the conversation went like this:

Her: "That's very wordy, pick either 'him' or 'her'."
Me: "You said you wanted us to use gender neutral language."
Her: "Yes, so just pick one of them."
Me: "Picking one of them would not make it gender neutral."
Her: *blank stare* "Uh, just use 'their' then."
Me: *returning her blank stare* "That would be grammatically incorrect."
Her: *getting frustrated* "Get rid of it all together then, just say 'Each partner shall record hours."
Me: "But whenever I wrote anything else like that in here, you crossed it out and said it was too ambiguous. Each partner shall record whose hours? I want it to be explicit that each partner is responsible only for his or her OWN hours."
Her: "Okay, okay, you can use 'his or her', but I only want it used sparingly. Some people used it several times in one sentence."
Me: "Well, I didn't. This is the only place on this entire page that I used it, and you STILL circled it and had a problem with it."

At this point, she basically just walked away from me. I honestly don't think she has any idea what gender neutral language is.

In another example of her stupidity, her grading was atrocious as usual. Quick background: I had a partner on this assignment. We were asked to split the sections of the contract in half and were only graded on the sections that we told the professor we were writing. I noticed on the grade sheet that I had gotten a 13 out of 15 on a section that I didn't write, yet my partner got a 12 out of 15 for that same section. We called the professor over and asked how I could have gotten a higher grade if I wasn't the one who wrote that section.

Her: "Well, some people added in sections that weren't required, so for those parts, I just gave you the points for the sections that you didn't write."
(Nevermind she never told us this was how she was going to do it - she ignored all of the emails that we sent her asking about how the grading would work)
Me: "But all you wrote down here are numbers, how am I supposed to know which extra sections of mine are included here, as opposed to up here in this other section I didn't write?"
Her: "Well, on some of them, I wrote it on here, but for others I didn't have time to do that."
Me: "Can you look at my paper and my grading sheet and figure out what you're actually giving me 13 out of 15 for?"
Her: "Uh...no, that would be very difficult, I don't have time for that."
Me: "So, for the rewrite, how am I supposed to figure out what to improve to get those two points back?"
Her: "Well, since you're handing in only one document with your partner, grading is going to be different for the rewrite."
Me: "How is it going to be graded?"
Her: "I haven't really figured that out yet."

Sigh.

03:38 PM [link]

Painting the town (apartment) red

10.24.05

Song of the Day: Madonna - Hung Up

Last night, I painted several walls in my apartment dark red. I'd been planning on doing it for the entire past year, but never got around to doing it. Last night was definitely interesting, as it was 40 degrees out, and I had all my windows open for ventilation, yet at the same time had the heater turned up as far as it would go. I'm eager to get all the furniture pushed back into place so I can see what the finished result looks like, especially since I rearranged some stuff at the urging of my uncle. He was so eager for me to move my tall and skinny CD shelves from the bedroom area to the hall that he (accidentely, he claims) knocked all the CDs out of one and then dropped the entire shelf on them. A lot of the cases are shattered to bits, but the CDs themselves seem to be whole.

After helping me turn my apartment dark red last night, tonight my uncle will be making my hair dark red. I'm fully expecting to feel the relief I always feel when the blonde-ish highlights from the summer disappear and the rest of my hair becomes darker. God really didn't know what he was doing when he made me a natural blonde.

03:40 PM [link]

Apathy

10.20.05

Song of the Day: Velvet Chain - Warm (Bad Kitty Mix)

Question: What do you get when you mix a major assignment worth 20% of the grade with a one-credit class and an apathetic professor?

Answer: Major procrastination, endless distractions, general laziness, and complete indifference on my part.

Did I mention the apathetic professor? The entire class (all 10 of us) is ready to mutiny and behead this blasted woman. She's a practicing attorney who obviously decided to pick up some extra cash on the side by taking on a one-credit class. That would be all fine and dandy, except for the fact that it is beyond obvious to everyone that she really doesn't care about us. She comes to class late, leaves early, doesn't answer our emails or phone calls, changes grading schemes after we turn in an assignment, and all of her written communication to us is filled with so many typos and errors that it's downright pathetic. I've never witnessed such a train wreck of a professor before in my life. I'm reluctant to even call her a professor, since it's a complete insult to all of the wonderful ones I've ever had. Even the really awful ones I've had before wanted to be there; they just were lacking in the "ability to teach" area.

I'm quite sure that once my class rips this woman up in our course evaluations or takes a group trip to the dean to discuss the situation (we haven't decided just how drastic we need to get yet), she'll never step foot inside a classroom again. I'm just relieved that this class isn't that important (required, yet not too important). It's also not on the forced curve, which in law school is usually a reason to celebrate; however, in this situation where her grading is infuriatingly arbitrary, it means that she can flunk all of us for not doing what she hadn't yet told us to do.

I somehow made it through the assignment with the help of Robbie Williams, Rob Thomas, and Velvet Chain, as well as a sweet, delicate flower and a pretentious bastard. Robbie was especially ever-so-helpful, as you can see from my Last.fm account. Check out what music I've been listening to for the last few months, sign up for your own account, link to me. It's fun and addicting, like all the good things in life are.

01:51 AM [link]

Very cherry addicting

10.17.05

Song of the Day: Angelina - I've Been Waiting

Cherry Chapstick - the best 99 cents you can spend. I knew it'd be a mistake to buy it, because I tend to neglect all 500 of my other lip glosses when I have a stick in my possession.

I'm very pleased that the new version of iTunes shows both the amount of time you have left in a song, as well as how much time has already passed, instead of making you pick between the two. What a novel idea. It only took them six versions before they had this attack of brilliance.

And speaking of the new iTunes, I'm SO down with the idea of being able to download episodes of TV shows for $2 a pop, especially since Tivo is way out of my price range. I do hope that half-hour shows cost half as much as full-hour shows, but something tells me that isn't the case. I also don't understand why they're charging for music videos, since you can view those for free legitimately on Launch. I'm sure it has to do with the fact that you actually download it, rather than just streaming it, but so far there's nothing that's convincing me to go to iTunes instead of Launch.

In other TV news for the weekend: I <3 Grey's Anatomy with more passion with each passing episode, Lynnette is the only character I actually like on Desperate Housewives (although Gabrielle isn't so bad), and as far as the White Sox...right town, WRONG TEAM. Sigh.

EDIT: It seems I'm not the only one feeling the Grey's Anatomy love; on TVGuide.com's poll about which weekend show was the best, 48% of the respondents picked Grey's. The second highest was Desperate Housewives...with 9%. Only 1% picked Jennifer Love Hewitt's show. I saw that one coming.

12:44 AM [link]

My new husband

10.15.05

Song of the Day: Milk Inc. - I Don't Care

A rather tipsy J just informed me that she had been out drinking with several of her classmates tonight, and that one of them is single and good looking, and is my husband.

That's right, I suddenly have a husband who I've never spoken to before. How very progressive of me; I may be at the forefront of the next new social trend. I do feel sort of cheated though, because apparently this social trend doesn't include a flashy diamond ring. I hope J won't be offended if I turn away this husband of mine, because I know she she knows the importance of diamonds.

02:07 AM [link]

The record labels are raping me

10.14.05

Song of the Day: Atomic Kitten - You Are

This is bullshit.

The long and the short of it: Mariah Carey is re-releasing her newest album with four new tracks on it.

Mariah, darling, I'm a huge fan. I own all your CDs. Even Glitter. But know what? I already paid full price for The Emancipation of Mimi the very first week it came out. I was one of those people who helped it hit #1. And I refuse to do anything except illegally download these four new tracks. Sure, I could pay 99 cents per song on iTunes, but then that's $4 added to the original price of the CD that I already bought. The CD's original price probably wouldn't have changed from what I actually paid if you had just included these songs to begin with. For all I know, you orchestrated this so that all your loyal fans would shell out more money further down the road. I did everything legally the first time around. I earned these illegal downloads, fair and sqaure.

12:04 PM [link]

Hawt again!

10.13.05

Song of the Day: Dancing DJs vs. Roxette - Fading Like A Flower

I'm overjoyed after seeing previews for the new movie Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.

Val Kilmer is hawt again!

07:26 PM [link]

Pumpkin overload

10.10.05

Song of the Day: Lasgo - Hold Me Now

My Worst Day Ever has been followed up by some pretty damn good days. I've spent the last two days running around with my Little (as in, sorority sister), Amy, and I get her for another two days before she has to head back to Ohio. We've done a crazy amount of shopping, and my purchases include the following:

* Caramel apple and pumpkin pie candles from Ulta
* Candle holders from Pier 1's fall sale that I've had my eye on for a few weeks
* Pumpkin beer
* Orange/cinnamon/clove soap from Lush
* The Sephora mix of mini perfumes that I mentioned a few entries back
* A tank top and gold necklace from The Limited

It's definitely been a smelly weekend, and my nose seems to be begging me to stop sniffing candles and soaps and perfumes. My nose went especially crazy at Lush, which sells wildly unique handmade soaps, massage oils, shampoos, and lotions. They actually have soap that's the consistency of Jell-o. The salesperson who was helping us seemed highly amused that I just couldn't wrap my brain around that one.

In shoe news, the store took back my poor boots without too much protest (The manager wanted to give me a store credit since, as he said, "We can't resell these." I replied, "You couldn't really sell them in the first place; I couldn't wear them since they were broken," and he refunded my money), but I still haven't found a pair to replace them with.

In other news, I did something wickedly catty last night that has been simmering inside me for the last few years. It's left me feeling smug and satisfied, and I'm just waiting for the response that I know has to be coming.

10:01 AM [link]

Worst Day Ever

10.07.05

Song of the Day: Girls Aloud - Life Got Cold

I think today qualifies as one of my Worst Days Ever.

The 40 degree drop in the weather that happened in less than 24 hours caused my allergies and sinuses to act up, and no medicine seemed to be able to put a dent in it. I spent all four hours of classes running to the bathroom to mop up my nose, which was miserable enough in itself.

Then I get home and go to take off my brand spankin' new, absofuckinglutely perfect, brown knee-high boots that I just got for dirt cheap last weekend...only to find out that the zipper on one of them was busted and stuck. I spent an hour with my nose running and my stomach wildly growling trying to get it unstuck. Eventually, I had to cut through the leather to get it off. I actually cried. I'm off to the shoe repair store tomorrow to see if anything can be done; my mom is optimistic, but I'm not so sure. I mean, I cut through the leather. My first step would be taking them back to the shoe store and replacing them, but they were, in a sad twist of fate, the only remaining pair in my size. Luckily I still have the receipt, but the worst case scenario is that they can't be fixed and the shoe store thinks I'm nuts asking for my money back.

Then, later in the evening, I start getting a headache. No biggie, I pop two Tylenol. Well, that headache turned into a migraine. I spent two hours dry heaving and in tears feeling pathetically pathetic and alone and fearful that I would puke up all the pills I'd just taken (two Tylenol, two Excedrin Migraines, a vitamin, a decongestant, and a birth control pill) before they'd had a chance to take effect. To make matters worse, I missed the first half of U2 on Conan because I was quite convinced I was about to die. Eventually, the nauseating pain in my head subsided and realized I might actually live through the night, so I crawled to the couch to watch the second half of the show. I suspected that I wasn't actually up to par yet after it ended and I realized that I was babbling out loud to the TV, trying to explain to it why I didn't want to see Carson Daly and that U2 could come back.

U2 closed the show with one of my favorite songs (Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of), so hopefully that's a sign of better things to come. Of course, given the title, maybe not.

01:18 AM [link]

You people make my brain hurt

10.06.05

Song of the Day: The Corrs - Irresistable

I don't know why I do this to myself.

I frequent a video games forum, where I've always gotten useful information about whether new releases are worth buying, some discussion about the games themselves, and some help when I have questions about one of the games I'm playing.

Unfortunately, like most themed forums out there, there is also a "General Chat" section, where people tend to bring up stuff that they know nothing about and try to sound like they're experts on the matter. I try to stay away, I really do. I've managed to go cold turkey and boycott the General Chat section for months at a time. Somehow, I always end up going back out of curiosity. Yeah, I know that bit about the cat.

People love to start discussions about political things, law-related things, and other topics that are often best left to those who know more than jack shit about them. Given that I know a little more than most people on these matters (it comes with the law school territory), I often try to throw in my own thoughts. And almost always, someone comes back and tells me that I'm wrong, and gives a wickedly disasterous explanation of why.

After experiencing that again today, and feeling my law n3rd self twitch in pain over the misinformation being presented, I've decided, no more! I will let the internet idiots try to discuss topics that go over their heads amongst themselves, and I will laugh at them floundering in their ignorance.

I really, really want to leave a remark such as, "You people make my brain hurt," but I think I will leave being a pretentious bastard to people who are really good at it. :D

11:46 AM [link]

IEIEIEIEIE U2 TAKES OVER CONAN

10.05.05

Song of the Day: Delta Goodrem - Lost Without You

Since J is not online right now, I must make this MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT here: Conan O'Brien IS TURNING OVER HIS ENTIRE SHOW TO U2 ON THURSDAY.

I always knew there was a reason why Conan was my favorite late night host.

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02:06 AM [link]

So, SO hot...

10.03.05

Song of the Day: Ridgewalkers feat. El - Find

My apartment building turned off the air conditioning and turned on the heat a few days ago.

It has been in the 80s for the last few days.

Yeah, it's been fun. I've been in the crankiest mood, which entails shouting obscenities at inanimate objects in my apartment. I've been taking two showers a day, but that hasn't really hasn't helped much at all. All my windows are open, but it's the same temperature outside as it is in here. The management office sent out a letter to all the residents today saying they're sorry, but it's a very complicated process to switch from A/C to heat and they won't be able to make any changes for us.

It's supposed to cool off by the end of the week; the management office better pray that it does, otherwise I'm going to be marching up there and blowtorching somebody.

06:49 PM [link]