#14 - In The Primate World Showing Your Teeth Is A Sign Of Weakness

Everytime someone smiles at me all I see is a chimpanzee begging for it's life.

So, I am not really sure how I am going to avoid ending this summer completely and totally broke. I officially have two jobs and yet I am not working at all. This is worrysom. As much as I would like to spend the summer bumming around the city and decorating my bedroom, I can't really afford to. I really want to be able to work at the bookstore this summer but it's kind of awkward because there are a couple weeks where I will be working every day, and the rest of the time I might not get to work there at all. Can anyone think of another job where I can get more than six hours a week, but also take at least three weeks off over the summer? If so, suggestions are greatly appreciated.

In other news (much less related to real life), it has been a tumultuous week television wise. It is finale season, which gives me mixed feelings. Gilmore Girls is gone forever. Grey's ends tonight. Don't even get me started on the Veronica Mars situation. Even it does get renewed it will be Piz-less, because he will be off wandering around shirtless in Shonda Rhimes-land making out with the chick from Summerland. I find this more upsetting than it has any right to be.

All this is topped off with the fact that I finished watching the second season (and all it's commentaries and special features) and am now in sever withdrawl from The Office. Actually, I am missing the show as a whole but the serious pangs are probably more John Krasinski-related than anything. I am, however, trying to keep firmly in denial about that because my list of fictional boyfriends is long enough as it is. Maybe I'll have to bump someone...

#13 1/2 - They Cut Off My Legs

Now I'm an amputee, Goddamn you.

Know what's gross? Eating marinated cauliflower and then eating butterscotch chips.

Know what's not gross? This:



It might take a long time to load, but it is worth it.

#13 - We Found A New Kind Of Dance In A Magazine

Try it on, it's like nothing you've ever seen.

A few things.

1. Dinosaur Comics has been awesome lately.

2. Maureen Johnson's book The Bermudez Triangle got banned from a school library in Oklahoma because it because it has gay characters. When I heard this (first from Maureen's blog and the on B2) I got really mad. I paced around my house for a while (many laps, because my house is teeny), and then ate a carrot, and then wrote the school's administration an e-mail. And then I went to the B2 comments to read the e-mails everyone else wrote, which cheered me up. Seriously, even if you don't know who Maureen Johnson is and don't care what happens to her book you should read some of these.

3. I start work tomorrow and I don't have any comfortable shoes. Except my Chucks, and I'm not allowed to wear those. Why oh why didn't I spend my money on shoes with arch support instead of those pretty flats I bought the other day? But I looooove them.

4. Matt is coming home today! Maybe he is home already! I don't really know!

5. Actually, I think that is all.

WAIT! How could I forget?

6. The two hour spinoff episode of Grey's Anatomy is tonight. I am a little dubious. Except for, you know, Piz being on it. Because I love him now. I really do.

#12 - You Snooze, You Lose

Well, I have snost and lost.

So I spent pretty much all day yesterday sitting around my house watching TV. Except for when I went outside briefly to rake the lawn and, uh, pick up to more TVs*. We have three in our house now, which seems a little excessive considering only two people live here.

Anyway, televison highlights from last night:

• Gilmore Girls: Luke's hat! Also, Rory had a meltdown, which I kind of enjoy because she is usually so damn perfect.
• Veronica Mars: Is back!! And with a vengance. Mac was in it! Wallace was in it! And Piz was really in it. I liked him before. Now I luuuurve him.
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Is too funny for words. I cannot believe I had never seen it before. Go watch it right now.
• Tobey Maguire on The Daily Show looked (and acted) like someone of Jeopardy Kid's Week. He is like a little child. It's a bit off-putting.

*Side story: While at the TV repair store I ran into a guy I worked with at Open Door two summers ago and we were talking and then dad told me to run outside and open the car door (because he was carrying an enourmous television) and I did, and I didn't say goodbye or anything, and I feel kind bad.