I saw a Jane Eyre with Timothy Dalton as Rochester, which was pretty cool, and one with William Hurt, which was lame. (The Hurt one had Charlotte Gainsbourg as Jane, who is ravishing and has a neck that is five feet long, but, Hurt was totally the wrong Rochester.)

Stephens I've only seen in 1-2 things, but he's never actively annoyed me. I would, at a guess, have said he's too young to play Rocehster, except I just realized that Rochester is probably no older than 40, isn't he?

The good part about a TV/movie version of Jane Eyre is that all the stuff that happens off the page in the book, annoyingly, can be put onto the screen in the movie. I mean, it's really really hard to make a climactic fire worth my while, if somebody just says, "Oh yes, this happened too." If I watch it happen, it kind of matters.

Oy! I should know better than to buy strawberries on sale in the dead of winter. They taste like chemical flavoured cardboard.

It's my day off today, so what do I do? Get up at the crack of freaking dawn to go for breakfast. Then I come home and go to back to bed. So much for being productive.

What's the deal with replacing the core of your wardrobe, ita? Do you have a plan?

My wardrobe was two things: boring and boring. There's boring I like (like today's outfit of a red silk knit mock turtleneck tee and grey pleated wool trousers) and boring that just sat there and took up space.

The boring I like is boring because it's mock turtleneck knit tees in black or red, long-sleeved knit tops in black or red, turtlenecks in black or red, paired with black or grey bottoms. All similar lines.

The boring I don't like are clothes I somehow acquired that I don't really like and don't really fit.

So the second group of boring is all gone. The first group needs to be pared. No one needs as many black knit tees as I have.

The replacement (mostly tops for now) hinges on color and style variance. No knit tees unless they do something different -- different colours, embellishment, something. Anything I get has to be totally a staple, or have something interesting -- pattern, colour, cut, something. Prefereably more than one different thing. And I have to enjoy it. I want it to be something that makes me happy to own just fingering past it in the closet. AND I have to know at least two pieces it will go with.

Pretty. I can do with more pretty.

Today's wardrobe decision was driven by my choice to wear the lidocaine patch during the day instead of night. Also need to consider covering various injuries.

Holy crap, what a day already. I have a raging sinus headache despite having taken five of my ten days dosage of Augmentin so far. I’d probably use a sick day except construction is going on at my house on weekdays so it’s not restful. Work just went to a new password system and somehow that messed up Entourage so I had to call IS. Then my first call of the day was one of those where I end up directing someone how to use the phone book because our company does not make what they’re asking for and they’re just calling because it’s an 800 number and they’re counting on me doing the research for them. Then I get the news that my only co-worker in this department (our jobs are different, but he covers my lunch and we share certain duties) has called in sick again. Jesus, I need to take my sick and personal time before I’m cashiered outta here and I hope he doesn’t make it difficult for me. He wasn’t laid off.

So, yeah, grouchy.

Spidra, if you're sick and laid off, don't consider co-workers when deciding to take your time off.

Ask Jeeves is Jeevesless!

Also today, it's f-ing freezing out and I seem to be coming down with a cold.

AND last night, the Haligonistas accidentally and unknowingly ate larb.

Ask Jeeves is Jeevesless!

I hope he got a good severance package.

que es larb?

Larb Gai - Spicy Thai Chicken Salad [link]

It's only funny because it used to be on the menu, and then they removed it. So we'd talk incessantly about larb every time we went to the Thai restaurant, including last night. And they've redone their menus, and B. noticed a new item "Laab Gai", so we decided to try it. It turns out that laab was a typo for larb.

The replacement (mostly tops for now) hinges on color and style variance.

I went through this. Or really, it was two stages: color, after college, when I realized gray and black weren't the be-all, and then I went bananas several winters in a row over wearing the same style outfit day in and day out. When you have to wear a sweater every day (because you're as cold as I am), you start to get bored with your standard crewneck sweater really quickly.

My wardrobe travails are the slow realization that having changed pants size in my winter clothes means I did the same thing in all my other clothes, and will have to start replacing them too. WTF! (N.b. I never dieted or changed weight much before, so this is a disconcerting and new situation for me.)

They're perfectly good clothes! That fit me last year! The clothes changed, I didn't!