1. wake up happy. 2. go to brunch with one of your favorite people. 3. go to a wedding show where everyone's nice to you because your friend is getting married. cry a little when the knife lady is talking about how her knives will last a lifetime. 4. have lunch with your roommate and her mom. 5. on a whim, go see wicked. charm the ticket guy. freak out the entire show. 6. impress people on the train with your cell phone ring. 7. go home and put on pajamas. 8. eat pizza and drink a bottle of yellowtail shiraz. 9. watch law and order: svu. 10. have friends over so they can make fun of you.
i mean, so awesome.
also, the knot guide for the groom came in the mail for our favorite roommate's fiance. it's hilarious. also kind of sad. por ejemplo:
your fiancee wants the honeymoon to be in bora-bora, but your budget requires something closer to home. what do you say? a. i hate foreigners. b. well, maybe if you hadn't spent so much money on three kinds of useless flowers for the ceremony... c. sounds great, but we'll have more time on the beach if we fly somewhere closer to home.
i mean, what? this just in: stereotypes against men also exist.
[2012 edit - This is consistently the most popular post on my blog. It's "Peach, Plum, Pear" by Joanna Newsom, and she's great. You should all be listening to this song. Also, if I may, "Good Intentions Paving Co."]
i'm kind of obsessed with this song, and also with the rant around 1:10 [not that i approve of the language, mind you] in this lovely cover.
Often unable to surf the electricity he sparked over the last year, Obama has now put on his laurel wreath and dropped his languid pose, tapping directly into what he calls the “fire burning” across the country — the dream of a cool, smart, elegant, reasonable, literary, witty, decent “West Wing” sort of president who won’t bankrupt us or endanger us or co-opt our rights or put a black hood on the Constitution.
see, i was on to something in my last post. i could totally be maureen dowd, if i had better hair and were really, really mean.
i just watched the west wing state of the union episode from season 1 ["he shall, from time to time..."] in which toby convinces the president to cut the line "the era of big government is over." he says, "i have no doubt that the line tested well, but i don't think that means we should say it. i think it means we should... change it."
so, if you like that, i'd recommend the opinion article by michael kinsley about how all the candidates are talking about "change" without really meaning anything.
[incidentally, toby was talking about FDR - but i think what kinsey is saying is that we don't need a "new deal" in a time when most americans are doing well.]
As for me, the $500 favor [Amazon.com] did for me this Christmas will surely rebound in additional business down the line. Why would I ever shop anywhere else online? Then again, there may be another reason good customer service makes sense. “Jeff used to say that if you did something good for one customer, they would tell 100 customers,” Mr. Kotha said.
it's true! it's all true! amazon replaced the west wing DVD i got where the scene when zoey asked charlie out wouldn't play. and they were awesome about it. this article was about their phone customer service, but i also really like how quickly and awesomely they respond to email. i wonder what kind of job that would be. would it be fun to respond to people's emails all day?
i always picture them sitting around in one big room, laughing and eating chips or something. but i guess i don't usually send them angry emails, either.
No mother wants to tell her daughter that she can aspire to the presidency only if she snags the most gifted politician of her generation. But Hillary Clinton’s rise to power, unsettling as it is, follows a time-tested pattern for the breaking of gender barriers.
The great feminist promise of a Hillary Clinton presidency amounts to this: If we elect a political wife now, perhaps we won’t have to later.
ouch. but it's worth noting [despite the spin] that women who have political power are often from powerful families. i don't even know what to say about this. i like bill clinton, and i feel like i don't know a lot about hillary - but i think that's more about us than about her. the gender gap is just not going away...
Meanwhile Barack Obama gives his folks the ecstatic experience. “They said this day would never come. They said our sights were set too high. They said this country was too divided, disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose,” he told them Thursday night, creating a patriotic lump in every throat in the room.
How could you be 21 and not be for Barack Obama?
aaaaand that's the quote of the day. i betcha barack's sweeping west wing fans, too. [i can call him barack because that's how he signs his emails to me.]
okay, so i'm being a little bit ironic. but so is mike huckabee, according to this article about him and obama. and, i mean, chuck norris.
i wish i were a republican, just for the chuck norris.
I'm 30-ish, female, and I teach religion at a Catholic high school in Chicago. I started blogging in 2006 when I was working at a church, studying theology, thinking about being an adult in the world, and realizing I had a lot to say. This blog is about the intersection of faith and reason and my life. Thanks for reading.
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If anything is certain it is that no story is ever over, for the story which we think is over is only a chapter in a story which will not be over, and it isn’t the game that is over, it is just an inning, and that game has a lot more than nine innings. When the game stops it will be called on account of darkness. But it is a long day. - Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
