My iPod is gonna be named Max. I decided I wanted a person name and I wanted to to work for both male & female.

IOmoreannoyingN - I have been trying to have a meeting with someone to go over about 7 tiny things - SINCE 9:30!!!! Really! I just left and told them to forget it until Monday. A million interruptions. Now my whole morning of getting the iPod set up was RUINED. Also I need to get over a feed some cats for a friend.

Frustrating, but not nearly enough to get me in a bad mood. oh HELLS no.

Are the median prices that different? The numbers really just don't seem real.

A couple of days ago (I think during "The Inside" -- so strange; what with TCM and IFC and BBCAmerica and all the DVD sets and no more Jossverse, we hardly ever watch the low channels anymore) there was an ad for starter family homes in someplace like San Mateo, starting at $750,000. Ulp.

::kisses rent-controlled apartment::

Theoretically I should be at work right now, and should have been there for 21 minutes already. But I've been delayed this morning by a coffee mishap (got the espresso machine all ready and running, except for the cup).

No iPod, and our computer has no name, but the printer at work is named Sister Boom Boom. We're due for a new one, and I'm going to push hard for it to be christened The Hero Of Canton.

Here Come The Hooker Huts! isn't exactly a perfect band name, but as an album title it would totally go triple platinum.

I already yay!ed Cashmere in Bitches, but smart, goodhearted people bringing more smart, goodhearted (and pretty) people into the world is always worth another yay, so yay!

Also, has Burrell posted any pictures of Isaac yet?

Evander's partner looks like she's giving up hope, but he seems to be enjoying himself.

I think it's a little bit cruel that America is voting to keep Evander in the competition when he so clearly sucks on every conceivable level. But, I enjoy the occasional bit of cruelty, so I'm loving every minute of it.

The one who actually bugs the most is the GH girl. She's so obviously playing the "I'm so cute and sexy. You know you want me. A vote for me is a vote for porn!" and it just bugs because she hasn't even made an attempt to actually learn the dances. Bleagh. And anyone who chooses an Enrique Iglesias song has automatic ick factor.

My co-worker and I were trying to figure out how exactly they translated the audience vote into a points total that could be combined with the judges scores. If you get 60% of the vote, does that mean you get 60 points? Does the highest vote getter get the same amount of points as the number one couple on the judges scoring table (and so on down to the lowest)? These are the burning questions in the office lunch room.

When is the ballroom dance show on?

Cashmere, you crazy close-child-spacing woman! Congratulations.

The one who actually bugs the most is the GH girl. She's so obviously playing the "I'm so cute and sexy. You know you want me. A vote for me is a vote for porn!" and it just bugs because she hasn't even made an attempt to actually learn the dances. Bleagh

She looked like she was really concentrating last week, and they bagged on her for not smiling, so she gets some sympathy from me. Rachel Hunter was bugging me last week because her partner was just tossing her around - she really looked like she had no idea what she was doing, but he made her look good anyway. But she got better, I think.

These are the burning questions in the office lunch room.

No one at my office watches it, alas. I really want to know how they combine the scores. At first it sounded like they'd just add the judges scores onto the audience votes, but that can't possibly be right. It must be some kind of ranking system, but what?

When is the ballroom dance show on?

Wednesday 9/8 central on ABC

I'm actually worried about Katie Holmes. She doesn't seem to realize that she's a beard. She seems to be genuinely in love/limerance/infatuated. She's going to be a bitter bitter woman when she susses it out.

At this point I've had to give up realistically hoping that she will come to her senses or get out of this thing unhurt. I think I'm going to switch to crossing my fingers that when the inevitable blow up happens, it'll be a nuke that blows his closet door off its hinges forever.

I want a live network feed of Katie chasing a half-dressed hustler into the street, smacking him repeatedly with the Golden Globe Tom won for Jerry Maguire, and screaming "SHOW ME THE HUSH MONEY!!!"

Woo hoo Cashmere and dh and Owen!

Also, I loved the kittens story -- I bet they just blamed both of them because, of course, neither of them were acting guilty.

I missed the Katie H on Letterman.

Will the ballroom dance show repeat on Sunday this week too?

And summer hours started at work so I've been awake less than an hour! (Summer hours means looonger days Monday through Thursday and Fridays off.)

Katie is also an actress with a film to promote, and she's in her late 20s. I'm sure that if the relatonship is fake, it's as fake for her as it is for Tom. The fact she's classically cute doesn't make her dumb.

Has anyone seen the trailer for the Rent movie? Jesse Martin is in it (thank gooddess) and seemingly lots of the original cast. And Rosario Dawson. I'm trying to work out how I feel about all that.

I'm sure that if the relatonship is fake, it's as fake for her as it is for Tom.

I like Katie Holmes's work. But if she's had this level of dissemination ability in her the whole time, she should have thrown it up onscreen.