i feel like it’s late fall now, approaching winter. even though it was very warm and humid today. i was wearing my socks with my sweats this evening, and then i decided that i was simply too hot for the socks.
but i had chicken with rice soup for dinner.
it was cold at the cracker barrel this morning, but then sultry when we waddled outside after many delicious things including biscuits-n-gravy.
i read the ending of the play “volpone,” by ben johnson, today. blegh. i didn’t care for it so much. it was hard to follow. maybe if i saw it performed, it’d be better. not better in a “the man who came to dinner” sense, but at least maybe i could follow along without getting sleepy.
i think i forgot to put a link to a website here. maybe i put it up already, but i don’t think so. this nice woman named kynda wrote to me a couple of weeks ago, and included her website address, and she takes beautiful photos, mostly of plants and flowers. here it is:
tonight i got sucked into MARTHA STEWART BEHIND BARS. i turned on the tv and was going to watch a few minutes, and then i just sat there, watching.
it seems so ridiculous that they put her in jail.
also ridiculous that they made a tv movie of it; there are more and more movies about people’s lives when they’re still in the middle of them. soon everybody will have a movie of their life, before they’re even lived it.
kate moss ADMITTED SHE USED COCAINE. oh, the horror, what is the world coming to? a model using DRUGS?
i thought lots of models used drugs. also movie stars. i mean, let’s be realistic here – how do they get so thin? do you really think it’s because of personal trainers and eating only very small lettuce leaves?
feigning horror at a model using drugs is like being shocked to hear that i eat chocolate chips right out of the bag.
mom clipped something in the paper about the WORST FOODS A PERSON COULD POSSIBLY EAT, because of the trans fats, and i think chocolate chips was on the list. the list wasn’t so big, but i think i might eat most of the things on it. maybe it wasn’t chocolate chips per se, but rather, chocolate chip cookies. maybe there are other bad trans fatty things in the cookies, it’s not just the delicious chips themselves.
what if they drug-tested models and rail-thin actresses the way they drug test athletes? but actually, somebody told me that some classification of athletes take plenty of drugs, too. i’m not sure how they explained them getting around the drug testing.
i never had any cavities until i went to college and had free access to a lot more sugar.
do you think cybil shepherd and martha stewart will ever run into each other? (cybil played martha on the show.) wouldn’t that be a little awkward for them? martha might say, “you made me look much heavier than i really was.” and cybil might say “did you notice how kind and compassionate i made you appear to be?” but they’d probably just avoid eye contact altogether, is my guess.
because there are thousands of ads on tv, during the commercials i flipped around. there was a thing on cnn called IS AMERICA PREPARED?, all about katrina and rita and the possibility of more earthquakes and natural disasters and biological disasters and people tainting our MILK. i didn’t watch the show because it looked too depressing (and because i was glued to MARTHA IN JAIL). i’m sure that the conclustion of the program is NO, WE’RE NOT PREPARED AT ALL, DIDN’T HURRICAN KATRINA MAKE THAT PAINFULLY OBVIOUS? BUT WE’RE GOING TO TRY TO WORK ON IT. BUT IT WON’T REALLY DO ANY GOOD. there was also stuff about the impact of the damage to refineries and stuff, and then on other channels there were lots of ads for SUVs.
i really don’t think americans are going to curb the purchasing of the SUVs. today while at the fit club climbing the stairs to nowhere, i read audobon magazine, and there was an article about global warming, research done by some fabulously-named woman, camille parmesan. she studies particular kinds of butterflies, and her research shows without a doubt that the global warming is going on and getting worse and animals are going to have to go farther and farther north because of the warming, but once they get all the way to the top of the world, there will be no place left.
it was pretty depressing, and she talked about how once cities like san francisco and NYC are flooded because of the global warming, it’ll be too late.
and we won’t quit buying SUVs. By “we” i do have to point out that i don’t include ME in that, because i’d never buy an SUV and i’d actually love a hybrid car if i could afford it. i drive a honda that gets good gas mileage and i try not to randomly drive all around wasting the gas.
ok, so basically everything in the world is depressing, then? can’t i think of ONE FUNNY THING? just one? to keep myself from the downward spiral that naturally occurs on sunday nights anyway, even when my life doesn’t feel so crummy???
well, i did see “wedding crashers” this weekend, finally, and i did laugh out loud a few times. it gets kind of fuzzy and disorganized in the middle, but there were many funny moments, not to mention the very cute cuteness of owen wilson, although i do find his brother luke to be even more attractive. and vince vaughn is so funny, even though they make his characters in different movies just about identical. here, he’s just about the same as he is in “old school,” which was even funnier than wedding crashers.
i was at a bar in la one time, the derby, where they have big band dances where actual young people go, and it’s very cool and hip and fun, and one night vince vaughn was standing RIGHT NEXT TO ME, and i was with this friend who kept trying to get me to talk to him – TALK TO VINCE VAUGHN! and he was very, very tall, and wore a plaid shirt like a lumber jack, and of COURSE i didn’t talk to him; i usually avoid talking to people i ALREADY KNOW, so i’m certainly not going to strike up a conversation with a complete stranger, and definitely not a MOVIE STAR. my friend kept sort of shoving me so i’d get closer to him, but i ran away, as i am known to do.
he wasn’t such a star then; it was shortly after the movie “swingers” came out; it was a really good movie, but a small film compared to the big stuff he’s in now.
living in spfld, i just don’t see as many celebrities. but i guess that doesn’t really matter, because if vince vaughn was in a bar here in spfld, i wouldn’t talk to him then, either.
i took a nap today, so there’s little chance of getting to sleep any time soon, but at least i’m going to try, because i have to go to school in the morning to get a booster shot for my TB innoculation or whatever it was that i needed in order to be admitted.
ok then,
grace grace grace