strange unearthly thing

What I'm Doing When I'm Not Doing This

in the last two weeks i have

~returned to my beloved boston. i am once again independently living, partial shoulder replacement and everything.
~found a new apartment in my beloved boston that is GORGEOUS and i love love love it a million times. it's a loft but i still have a separate bedroom and an office with doors so i can close off my perpetually messy desk, a kitchen with COUNTERS (very important as for the last two years i have been living with a galley kitchen with no no no counterspace) and i can get a cat!
~applied to design school with crossed fingers, toes and other crossable body parts. i am praying i am accepted for this fall.
~started the process of becoming a girl scout troop leader with my friend. we want girls between 11 and 17--you know, those years when everything can seem horrible. let me just say, they give you you a lot of paperwork when you go to the girl scout office and make leading a troop seem very overwhelming. and kind of scary.
~realized that eating cinammon babka for breakfast every morning while at home recovering from partial ahoulder replacement surgery makes you gain weight.

'Melrose Place is a really good show.'

that's a quote from 'Reality Bites.' remember that movie? ethan hawke, winona ryder, ben stiller and janeane garofalo? (side note, where is winona ryder?) janeane garofalo says, 'Melrose Place is a really good show,' and i swear, hearing her say that is reason enough to rent and watch the movie.

whenever a show i love is in danger of cancelation (every year about this time) i think say that in an attempt to get people to watch my show. this year that show is 'Veronica Mars.' i love this show. i love kristin bell as veronica. i love how funky cool she is. i love that there's a season long storyline running through but each episode can stand on its own. and i can't even believe this show is on upn.

if you out there watch 'Veronica Mars' or if i have convinced you to tape it while you watch 'Amazing Race' or 'The Starlet' (or vice-versa) or whatever else is on Tuesdays at 9 (eastern) and you heart it as much as i do, go to this website Save Veronica Mars and send a letter to dawn ostroff, president of upn and do the $2 bill thing. you'll understand when you visit the site.

go there! quick like a bunny!

He's Not My President

i went to my first protest yesterday. i think it was referred to a both an 'anti-war protest' and a 'peace vigil.' i wore my '51% is not a mandate' t-shirt and held a sign that said, 'are we teaching iraq about democracy by bombing them?' i didn't make the sign. the organizers had a bunch of signs for people to use. i think, had i made my own sign, i would have gone for the straightforward peace sign. i went with my mom and her friend and we stood with other people on the corner of a busy intersection. a lot of people honked and cheered and made the peace sign with their hands as they drove by. a lot, but i wish more had vocally agreed with us. it was a gorgeous day and i didn't even need my jacket, unlike the grey, overcast and drizzly weather we are having today. it was fun and it felt good to be out there doing something, though what difference it will make, if any, i don't know.

Living Vicariously Through Seventeen Year Olds

ohmygod, i am so jealous of my sister's best friend! she is getting my fabulous nicole miller prom dress! i came into the office the other night where my sister was IMing friends and in one IM box i see the dress. i said, who's that? that's my dress! E said, no it's not. i said, yes it is, it's just on a different model! E said it was the dress her friend wants for prom. man! when i went to prom you just went to the local department store and bought a dress. these days it's like preparation for searching for a wedding dress. there are magazines, websites, girls go to other cities to shop. it's sort of crazy.

i would enjoy high school so much more if i could have gone between the ages of 26 and 30 rather than 14 and 18.

Uh Duh

~and tivo! of course tivo! how does one watch tv without tivo?