Bailey broke me, but...it got a little too much for me and it took me out of the moment. Carmen pushed a couple buttons of mine, so I was bawling with her.

And, I missed Effie. She needs to be around to balance out Lena.

I lived Carmen's story, although, surprise? Tibby is most like me. Gris, I have read that testosterone fluctuates about fifteen times a *day* so y'all should have the crazier rep than us...I'm not surprised. Only that you said so...very metrosexual of you.

The always nifty Joel Achenbach did a piece on Global Warming skeptics for the Post Magazine a couple weeks back. It's here. He sort of discusses the the problem of mixing politics/media with science. I liked this bit:

Scientists are argumentative by nature. They're supposed to be. They're supposed to attempt to disprove the hypotheses and claims of their fellow scientists. Theories are hazed unmercifully. And when they emerge from that trial-by-skepticism, they are all the more respected.

Certain skeptics -- really, they're optimists -- have scored debate points by noting that prophesies of doom have often slammed into a wall of human resourcefulness. But you can't solve a problem if you spend decades failing to perceive it. Humans adapt best when worried.

Or at least not in denial.

Gonna have to see Inconvenient Truth. I don't want to. I already believe, and it's just going to make me cry and get pissed off. Pissed-er off than I am.

Gris, I have read that testosterone fluctuates about fifteen times a *day* so y'all should have the crazier rep than us...I'm not surprised. Only that you said so...very metrosexual of you.

Yeah, but I actually work on a monthly cycle. Seriously. One out of every four weekends, my only desire is to sit in my room, read sappy teen girl novels, and cry.

I'm a weird, weird man.

I just saw The Lake House too, and I have to agree with Jessica. Once I got over Keanu no longer really looking (or sounding) like he used to, I really enjoyed it. It's a nice little movie, and everyone's very likeable, and just, yeah. I liked it.

Can you whitefont and tell me how it turns out?

Does Keanu spin the Earth around its axis backward in order to erase the last two years and rendezvous with Sandra Bullock?

ita, they fall in love (duh) and set a date to meet in 2006; but he never shows. She gets back together with her ex and they buy an old house to rehab and hire an architect to fix it, and it turns out to be Keanu's firm--except Keanu died 2 years before, in a car accident, on the day in 2006 that she'd first read one of his letters. He was trying to find her, and she saw him die (but didn't know it was him).

So she figures out that that was him, and runs back to the house and tells him not to try to find her, but to wait, and that she's at the house today, now. And he waits and then comes to find her and it's all happy at the end.

It almost makes sense, but really the characters are likeable enough that I didn't mind much that the plot was not entirely stable.

And the house is entirely cool. Very very neat.

Thanks. I found Keanu's delivery so irritating in the trailer that I knew I'd never see it.