OK, WTF? The location card thing on Law & Order just said "Washington Heights, Bronx." Um, Washington Heights is in Manhattan, not the Bronx. They shoot here! People should know better!

Also, my cat once again proved himself to have the best personality of any cat ever, by winning over even my mother, who doesn't like cats.

I am studying the anatomy of the back. I'm not sure why.

Someone brought a two year old to King Kong last night, and sat behind me. They must have left (switching adults) five times in the first half of the movie, totalling at least an hour of missed time between them. I can see how a sitter mightn't be affordable, but surely you're wasting money spent on tickets at this point.

And there's no way I'd expect a two year old to sit through that movie without being freaked out. It's not like they could sleep through it.

I am officially starting 2006 sick. I thought I had just drank some bad milk this morning but the fever, chills and ongoning intestinal distress lead me to think that it's more that just bad food.

Con someone make my evening better by telling me that GA is on in 45 minutes. The station that shows it early was showing Commander in Chief.

ETA:I am supposed to start yoga again tomorrow, but I don't know if I will make it.

(I'm afraid there's no new GA this week. And I think there's a recap next week)

Damn. I'd settle for even a repeat, though.

I just watched about 3 hours of programming on Canadian Comedy. I was trying to watch a British show, You Are What You Eat, but the dispays of disgusting food, and colonics (!!!) was too much for my sensitive tumy.

Yikes. That's not something I'd want to watch at the best of times, really.

I hope you feel better in time for your plans tomorrow.

ita, a problem with tea is that there are incompatibilities between quality and length of life. Tea is best prepared loose in the pot. Which means that even if the pot is insulated, after the first five minutes you get stewed tea. So you can get one of those french-press type tea pots, but crushing the leaves makes the tea bitter.

I usually end either using tea bags in the pot and fishing them out: the china pot keeps the tea warm enough to keep drinking from -- or I make the tea loose and then pour it off into an insulated mug to keep it from stewing. Given that an insulated mug will cost you $4, I submit this may be a solution, if not the perfect one.

Cereal (Irish breakfast, with honey): I just got back from a lovely long brunch with Buffistas. Which was great; but five hours in a house with cats, even a clean house where the cats are locked away in the bedroom? Makes me wheeze like a mofo. I'm so glad I'm not an asthmatic: I could never function like this.

So I'm back to tea and listening to the rain. Yay theophyllline!

Which means that even if the pot is insulated, after the first five minutes you get stewed tea.

The other requirement I'd mentioned upthread was a large steeping basket, so that the leaves could be removed once the proper brewing time had elapsed. The teapot was also for work, so the second insulated mug would be too much bother, since we don't actually have sinks with dishwashing liquid. For all those prices that specifically meet my requirements, I'll just use my in-cup basket twice.

Report:

Brunch was at Perkins' apartment today. Everyone welcomed Juliana to the Bay Area. Perkins was sad that Sean was not there to take home the leftovers (FedEx was considered). There was much conversation. Including the infamous slash conversation that was not about Slash . And the importance of having a banana when living in a cardboard box

To be xposted with bitches.