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Soap Box Friday, March 31, 2006 Something to Do on a Friday Afternoon Who thinks up these questions? Thursday, March 30, 2006 Truth is Stranger than Fiction A technogadget-phile man leaving his wife for a dominatrix, a famous Hollywood director cross-dressing and palnning a sex change operation, a dominatrix marrying a female to male transsexual...what is it all about? It's the true life of Matrix director and V for Vendetta scriptwriter Larry Wachowski. No joke! Read all about it here. Tuesday, March 28, 2006 O. M. G. I thought this was a joke. That it is not makes me sick. Sunday, March 26, 2006 Goodbye MySpace For the two of you who knew I had a MySpace account, I thought I'd let you know that I no longer have a MySpace account. I just got sick of the news stories of the sexual predators caught through MySpace...both locally and nationally. The straw, as it were, was a story on cnn yesterday about another rape in which it stated that the cops found "blood in every room." The rapists were only teenagers and it just made me sick. I know there are sexual predators everywhere, blah blah blah, but I'm sorry, it sure seems that MySpace has more than its share. Plus, as I am married, I'm not interested in the guys that mail me , "your so beautiful. Be my friend." The stupid thing about these emails is that the only "picture" I had on MySpace was of the cartoon character Leela from Futurama, a one eyed purple haired woman. Now, granted, some people do consider Leela beautiful, but if you think I really look like that, you're fucking high. So I deleted my MySpace account and I'm feeling pretty good about it. Friday, March 24, 2006 An Open Letter to UPS and/or Amazon.com Dear Geography Wizards: Just FYI: New Mexico is a state of the US. Contrary to how it may seem, it is not its own country, nor does it belong to any other country. In fact, it's been a state since 1912, long before either UPS or Amazon.com ever existed. Look at a map. It's just west of Texas, east of Arizona and south of Colorado. In order for my package to travel from Louisville, Kentucky to Albuquerque, NM, there is no reason for the package to leave the country or arrive in another country. And thus ends your geography lesson for today. Thank you. Jen Bennett
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 Ugh This blogger is sick. Please leave the chicken soup at the door and I'll get back to you soon. Monday, March 20, 2006 Repeat Are there certain movies that you watch whenever they are on TV, even though you've seen them before, and maybe even own them on DVD? I have movies like that. They include: Places in the Heart I'm sure there are more but I can't think of them now. What are your "Must Watch" movies? Friday, March 17, 2006 Overheard at Dinner Names have been withheld to protect the not-so-innocent. Friend 1: So I was watching this interview with Macauley Caulkin and he was talking about the time he was arrested for possession of prescription drugs without a prescription.. Friend 2: Holy shit! That's illegal???? Friend 1: That's what I said! Oopsie! Wednesday, March 15, 2006 Confession I swear, I really am not normally obsessive-compulsive, thank God. I do have a little thing about germs and probably wash my hands more than your average Joe to compensate for my lack of immune system, but nothing that interferes with my life. However, there is something from my childhood which still triggers a reaction in me. Growing up in Belmont MA, I knew this girl. She was one or two years older than me and lived down the street. One cold winter night, she put her hairdryer in her bed with her...turned on. The bed caught on fire, as you might imagine, and this young girl was burnt...badly. She had burn scars all the way up to her face. It wasn't like horror movie scarring. It actually just seemed like an unusual birthmark. I never saw the rest of her body. She kept it pretty well hidden. To this day, 35 years later, I fear that hair styling appliances are going to burn down my house. It's not good enough to turn them off. The have to be unplugged (except the hairdryer! How weird is that?). I'm convinced that if my house ever does burn, it's gonna be a curling iron that starts it. I even had to call my husband last week from school to ask him if he could make sure the curling iron was unplugged. And yes, on that rare occasion, about once a year, I will turn my car around after leaving the house to go back and make sure the curlers or curling iron are unplugged. I could leave the oven on and drive away, or even the iron, as I know that will turn itself off but I still worry that damn, $9.99 hair appliance is going to destroy everything I own. As my husband likes to say, "the human mind is a fucked up thing." Sunday, March 12, 2006 Best Laid Plans You ever have one of those days that you've planned to get a lot done? But then instead of doing any of it, you find a movie, such as Places in the Heart, on TV and manage to watch it from beginning to end, killing those 2 hours? And then, you're flipping around the dial, you find a great documentary on, like Murderball, so you have to watch that and before you know it, you've killed enough time in the day that it is highly unlikely you will get half the stuff done you planned. On top of all that, it's March and you live in the desert and it's fucking FREEZING (literally) and snowing outside so all you really want to do is crawl into bed and pull the covers over your head. I'm having one of those days. Saturday, March 11, 2006 Talk About the Weather So, about a week ago, it was BEAUTIFUL and sunny and 70 degrees. The trees are in bloom, the crocuses and daffodils are up and looking quite lovely. Then today while I was driving, I was listening to a song called Winter Song Warning, by my husband and his friend and holy cow! It started snowing! How weird is that? (BTW, The song is available on iTunes. Go download it! C'mon, is spending 99ยข on an awesome song gonna kill you?) Apparently, we've got a big winter storm on the way. Where I live, we should even have a couple of inches on the ground by morning. While I love spring weather and flowers blooming, I also LOVE snow and it is so dry here, I'll take anything I can get. Wednesday, March 8, 2006 Random Crap from my Head Don't you hate when you're right about something, like what the Vice President's name is, for example, and everyone disagrees with you just to be contrary? Jesus, that makes me crazy. Happened today in class and it happens EVERY WEEK to me in this class. I swear, one chick in the class would say it was night just because I said it was day. What's worse is that after this same class every week I no longer want to he a psychologist. How bad is that? I try to remember that in just 2 short days, I'll be on Spring Break! Not that I don't have any work to do but at least I won't have to go to class for a week. Phew! Life is too short for cheap chocolate or cheap tea. I'm pissed that they are releasing a 2-disc Director's cut of Crash on April 4th. I LOVED the movie and bought it immediately on DVD but I'm going to have to see the director's cut...somehow...but I hate giving in to this marketing shit about repackaging movies to squeeze out a few more dollars, damn it! Maybe if it's still in shrink-wrap I can sell it on eBay and just buy the Director's cut. My two week cold is almost gone...just in time for Spring Break! Wooo! I went through about 4 boxes of Kleenex in the last 2 weeks. It's been a PITA. I think my cat has allergies. Someone asked me if she's allergic to people. While I doubt that, it's kinda sad when she has a sneezing attack. I know I should take her to the vet's for a steroid shot but man, she hates the vet's so much, I don't know if the stress of going to the vet is worth what relief a steroid might give her. And so it goes...Spring Break! Almost there! Wooo! Monday, March 6, 2006 Another Precinct Heard From Suzie sez: Hey! How come Damien gets all the attention? I'm cute too!
And no, I'm not slightly out of focus. I really look that way! ;) Sunday, March 5, 2006 Will The Real Natalie Portman Please Stand Up! I have always LOVED Natalie Portman, ever since I saw her in The Professional, her first movie. Like any young actress, her choices are not always great...like the whole Star Wars prequel shit, but hey, I'm sure they backed a big truck full of money up to her house for those 3 episodes of manure and she's only human. However, I have found a video clip that shows you the young woman behind the Ivy School girl facade. Click here to see the real deal. UPDATE: Link has been updated to replace the link the NBC lawyers shut down. Oscar Hype I will now tell you who will win the Oscars, therefore saving you 5 hours of TV time tonight. Ready? Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Best Director Best Movie Personally, I begrudge Brokeback Mountain nothing. It was a great film. However, leaving the theater after seeing Crash, I thought, "Holy cow! What did I just see?" It was so bold and pushed issues in your face that members of decent society don't talk about. Such bold storytelling needs to be rewarded or it will disappear. Yes, Brokeback Mountain is also bold and deals with issues people don't normally deal with but it has already been given so much attention and awards, I just want Crash to get it's share. Oh, and BTW, I don't guarantee the winners of the awards above so if you choose to just go by what I say and I'm totally wrong, I am NOT responsible for you missing the Oscar show. ;) Wednesday, March 1, 2006 Unlucky 16 If I have counted correctly, I have been on the inside of 16, yes 16, hospitals! That is way too many for someone of my age. Granted, I haven't been a patient in all 16 but still! (Wait, I just remembered one more.) Number 16 itself was added yesterday as I kept Nick company for 6 hours in the ER of a hospital for his kidney stone. Those suckers are NOT cool and I hope I never get one. I mean, I've known Nick for 14 years and I've NEVER seen him violently hurl like he did yesterday into a garbage can as he was being triaged, poor darling! However, if he hadn't chucked his guts, we wouldn't have gotten the gurney in the hallway that we did (yes, the HALLWAY). I'm telling you, ERs in New Mexico suck the big one. There is always an amazing wait, no privacy, and the strangest clientele walking around in all manner of undress. At least in the hospital yesterday, there were no gang bangers in chains, like the last time I was in an ER room in Albuquerque. |
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