Huh. So I'm alone in thinking Marissa's a brat for not being happy her parents might work things out? I didn't feel sorry for her at all. In fact, even though I know my parents were wrong for each other, if they'd ever acted like things might work out, I'd have been thrilled- so I resented her attitute.

Oh, I thought Marissa was a total self-centred brat. However, I do think her resulting feelings of isolation and abandonment were realistic nonetheless.

who obviously doesn't know me very well and hates me a little bit, gave me a plant. I appreciate plants in a very abstract "good for the planet, gimme some oxygen" kinda way, but I hate 'em like gold teeth and jheri curls in the up close and personal.

Ah. Maybe she knows you better than you think.

See, I resent her attitude enough to think "Well that's what you get when you make it all about you, brat. Eventually, someone else is going to make it all about them."

I sit corrected. Cindy and DX are correct: indeed, it was Beaver Brown. (Quel name!) I remember answering phone calls from Tiger Beat, and typing up contract riders for their tour with the Beach Boys. Ah, the slippery cusp of stardom!

As an odd aside, I learned Cafferty's jean size, because Levi's was a co-sponsor of the tour. He is a wee little man.

Matt, I didn't think Praed looked that bad in the one Jules Verne ep I saw. I mean, he's no longer stunningly beautiful, but he looks okay. I wouldn't mind seeing him work some more.

It's hammering rain. Somehow I don't think this means I can skip going to the gym tonight.

Msbelle, re your WAT whitefont, I thought the address they found for the doctor was the clinic address, not his home address, but because the blond chick had lied to the agents, they went in with the assumption that he was sleeping with Tara, and made it about the personal, and not the medical.

Also re WAT, am I the only one who gets bugged by LaPaglia's character threatening to hold witnesses personally responsible almost every show? I think part of it is, really, he's just not that scary, so my response to the threat would be "Pfft, yeah, right."

IOmemeN, I turned on the heat in my apartment for the first time ever. Not unrelatedly, I am still sick, and staying home today.

Ah. Maybe she knows you better than you think.

Perhaps she wants to keep the flame of jheri curl hatred alive and burning brightly within my breast and the plant is a subtle reminder that we must be ever vigilant against the dreaded jheri curl(and his grease and chemical laden brother the conk).

Has anyone here tried steel cut oatmeal? Has anyone not hated it?

A co-worker has brought me a cup of it, and the cooking instructions sound daunting and unrewarding.

I've had steel-cut oats and found it not at all difficult.

I possibly didn't do it properly but mostly I put the oats in milk to soak, then put it on a low-heat and found that actually it didn't take them as long to cook as the instructions suggested.

There was an article on it in...the Times, I think, this weekend.