Hmm. I'm not sure I could be pregnant enough by the beginning of July to need them, so maybe I should stick to my surgery idea.

Timelies! What did I miss while I was gone for the weekend?

While I did get to see my mom and the rest of the extended family and have some fun, the best part of the weekend may have been seeing a full double rainbow hanging over my home town in NJ....

What is with Benicio and elevators?

Benicio Del Toro has come to the rescue of Penelope Cruz and her mother after they all got stuck in an elevator at the Cannes Film Festival in France. The Oscar-winning actor saved the Spanish beauty and her mother Encarna from being stranded in the lift after it suddenly shut down as they headed towards a meeting at the Majestic Hotel, where Cruz was attending the film festival to promote drama Chromophobia. A source says, "It was a very scary experience, the lift stopped and no one knew what had happened. Penelope was pretty calm but her mother is claustrophobic and really started panicking. Benicio managed to get them both out of the lift single-handedly even though they were stuck between two floors. He has amazing upper-body strength and lifted Penelope out of the top of the lift like she was a doll." Del Toro adds, "It was pretty hairy but I only did what any other man would do. I was glad to be able to help out."

Is it really strange that I had a dream about attending my high school's 10th reunion (which I did not, 3 years ago) and come in this morning to find an email from someone who was my best friend from age 9 to 15 and next door neighbor? Asking me if I went to it?

I can blame the dream on the NPR piece on school lunches, I think. Though I'm not sure why we tore out an exterior wall on Steve Inskeep's cape cod cottage.

Maybe I didn't wash all the pesticides off the apricots I had for dinner last night. (Actually, they were apriums. Whatever the hell an aprium is. Tastes like an apricot.)

I really wish it was still the weekend.

On GA: I missed something. Why do we think that Burke is in for some hurt next season?

Whatever the hell an aprium is

I'm guessing it's the new name for a pluot.

Oh yes, that helps a lot.

Freaky designer fruit.

sarameg - my feeling (on GA) is that Burke is more invested in the relationship than Yang is. Also that when he finds out (and you know he will) that she had the abortion without even telling him that she was pregnant -- hurt! Anger! You know what I mean. I admit that sometimes I think that Yang is more invested in the relationship than she realizes herself, but this could just be my silly romantic soul.

Aprium is just weird. But maybe not as weird as semi-prophetic dreams about high school reunions.

I have the most annoying song in my head. So annoying I won't even share it.

Pluot® and Aprium® interspecific hybrids are complex crosses of plum and apricot. Unlike plumcots, which are simple plum x apricot crosses, Pluot® and Aprium® interspecifics were developed by the Zaigers through intricate hybridizing, requiring several generations of crosses to create these new fruits.

No, I don't really know what that means.

I really don't need to eat trademarked fruits, you know?