super size me

this looks like it will be a sweet flick. a documentary of a guy who eats nothing but McDonalds food for a month. ew. it doesn't seem like it went very well either, health-wise anyways (surprise surprise). in an article I read about the film, they said he had to go on his girlfriend's strict vegan diet for 2 months just to get his body near-to-normal. i'm not sure i would be able to date a man who ate only McFood for any extended period of time. the various stinks she had to endure boggle me. hats off to her!

scott to the rescue

so i'm a big dummy.
i finally got to move all the computer junk to the back of the house again (some phone problems forced our operations to temporarily move to the kitchen), but couldn't get things to work. i thought i had it all plugged in ok, but, no dice. computer no work. soooooo, doot do do dooooooooo, i called scott, who found some time in between homework and crouton-eating to help his pal out. and with his amazing troubleshooting skills, he was able to determine that i had put a phone cord into the ethernet jack. i like to think i'm a little more capable with computers than that, but, (insert poor excuse here).

either way, it's nice to know that i'm not the only one to do such a thing.

I can't believe I miss LA

...but in some ways, I really do. besides missing all my LA girls and boys, i miss going to all the cool shows i used to go to. for some reason, while i was in LA, it seemed the shows i wanted to see were up here in the bay area, but now they're down in LA again. doh! luckily i have molly, who i can persuade into seeing people like jill sobule and jim bianco.

in a separate note to my beloved musicians - COME UP HERE TO PLAY!!

paper wasters

man, noah is clever, not to mention totally right.

i was eating my breakfast this morning and reading my email, including the dictionary.com word of the day. bad idea. images of "an excess secretion of bile" and "gastric distress" have really ruined my meal. is it really necessary to learn such words??

scrumdiddlyumptious

johnny depp is going to be willy wonka! i love willy wonka, and i love the chocolate factory, and i love roald dahl. i originally heard a rumor brad pitt was gonna do it, which was interesting, but i think johnny depp will be awesome. and, tim burton is doing the new one, which will be sooooo cool! i love the original, but i think it would be cool to see a movie more true to the book - darker, sillier, and more about charlie. and danny elfman's involved too... oh man, i'm excited!

ew stinky stinky

i do lots of pet-sitting, dog-walking, and the like... and i've discovered there's one major downside to it all. dog farts. when i'm walking a dog and have to pick his poop off the grass with a plastic bag and throw it away, that's ok, understandable, and more importantly, expected. but when you're just sitting there, and suddenly the worst smell ever fills the room, or wherever you are. man, it's worse than being trapped in an internet dungeon with scott for weeks at a time. and, that's pretty rough.

computerized tarot??

as i was eating breakfast this morning, i noticed my grandma has a tarot program for her computer sitting on her desk, and i've been baffled by it all day long. although i am sometimes interested in certain "metaphysical things" (i can't think of a better term...), tarot just isn't one of them. even still, the idea of a computerized tarot deck seems absurd to me, since you don't ever touch the deck, you don't shuffle it, nothing - the computer program just shows whatever it's been programmed to show when you click your mouse, however computer programs "randomly" do this. i can sort of understand a belief that when you select a card, you can have some sort of spiritual connection or something that leads you to draw a certain one, but i can't see the same thing happening with the computer. i guess the lack of physical contact kills that idea for me, though i guess that may be a bit absurd, since the two aren't that different. and i have no idea why this is even occupying my mind as much as it is. but it is. and i guess i've rambled in circles enough around it to be done with it. but i think i'll still be needing to ask around, get some more input before i can really let it go...

2004

i remember when i was little and new years was so exciting... and yet, part of the excitement was thinking about how much more exciting new years eve would be once i was older and could really go out and celebrate. and yet, i'm 22 and all i wanted to do was sit around with my friends and play board games. which i did. go figure.

this year, though, i was less bummed with myself for just wanting to stay at home (oh, the internal struggles that go along with being laurel) since i had spent the day and night before relaxing and rejuvenating my body at a fancy shmancy spa in napa with susanne. i was wrapped in a chardonnay -rosehip mud, then given a deep tissue massage the next morning. pure heaven.

speaking of heaven, the cutest kitty in the whole wide world (stripers, of course) has now joined his wifey-poo (ashes) wherever it is that kitties go when they die. the poor guy just went downhill after ashes left... he died of a broken kitty heart. (well, that, and he WAS at least 15 years old) he and i talked on the phone a few days before he left (really - i had a long-distance kitty relationship for years, which is what naturally happens when your kitty moves to the opposite side of the country), and so he knows how much i love him. he was drinking water out of glasses rather than bowls until his dying day, and probably would have eaten some white chocolate covered oreos, had he had more than one tooth left. really, he was the best cat in the whole world, and it's sad that childhood pets can't just live forever (or at least until their people get old and die too). that's what i think about that, anyways.

but getting back to the point - that being that it's now suddenly 2004 - i'm starting off this year feeling quite unsettled. i have a feeling this year's gonna be a bumpy one...