It's an open secret that my dad is the stereotypical absentminded professor. What my brother is still denying is that he's following in his footsteps, just with a greater need for speed and a different subject.

What I can't figure out is how much is the women in their lives actually enabling this, or just acting defensively for our sake. I DO know that to some degree, mom and SIL allow it, as I now have very little patience with lazy helplessness, and when alone with me, they are slightly better at the whole life skills thing. And lord knows, they have been able to survive on their own before, so I know it isn't fatal. While at times it is funny, it can also be annoying.

I think ita and Kat (and who knows who else) will be pleased with the teasers for the next Alias.

I DO know that to some degree, mom and SIL allow it, as I now have very little patience with lazy helplessness, and when alone with me, they are slightly better at the whole life skills thing.

I don't know that any of us allow it exactly. But I do think we've all reached a place where we accept it because it ain't ever gonna change. So we just roll our eyes.

Allyson, I like The Kid Behind the Counter Hates You.

I may possibly identify with the kid.

I do know what you mean about accepting. The little stuff mostly slides. It was just after years of dad and mom claiming he couldn't cook (dude, he burnt her 35th birthday cake!) he went on sabbatical and since we weren't with him during the week, he had to cook. So it was spaghetti and burritos or and salad,(hell, I cooked that for us starting at 8ish because mom had class) but he did just fine.

So when I came home my freshman year of college, and mom was out of town, when I was asked to make sure dad got fed because "he can't cook", I just laughed. He got quite inventive. It was good. I still ended up paying the mortgage, because ...he didn't do the finances. @@

Huh. Didn't know this still annoyed me about my relations.

c.s.i. - you know it took me all of last week and half of this week to figure out that Daniel Bess played Officer Bell.

I keep expecting somebody in the show to make a comment about Nick's mustache. Or did I miss it?

so this year for xmas -

no shopping at Sony

and Target was all ready off my list because of this:

Also, I'm now regarding Target with the slightly narrowed eyes of beady suspicion, owing to the fact that it's one of the corporations that allows its pharmacists to opt out of dispensing Plan B for religious reasons.

sadly, I am missing Target more

sumi, there was a point when Warrick called him Mustache Boy last week.

Blerg. Occasionally, my brother gets sufficiently sleep depped or drunk and sends me really personal poetry he writes. Can't say how good it is, but it is powerful in the insights it gives me to my brother. The things he normally won't say (he's happygolucky.) The latest... well, the latest worries me over a concern that's been shoved to the back of my head for a while. He's metaphorical enough, I could be interpretting wrong, but I just don't know. I hope it isn't what I think.

How do you talk about the things someone won't talk about?

I think boy tiaras should be called tiaros.

That is all.

RIO!!

(that's the right response, huh? I'm rusty because you don't visit when I'm around enough!)

I love Maura Tierney's facial expressions.