mornin' (or insert time specific greeting here)

I have two confessions to make:

1. I bought two pair of cropped pants (not gauchos) yesterday, despite being told they are "of the devil".

2. I hate wedge/cork shoes. I will not be dragged into two evil fashion trends in one season. Hence, my shoe shopping escapade last night was a bust. If flats are also "in" why can I find none in stores? WHY??

Rio, enjoy the NYC living!

I was looking for flats yesterday too, with no luck. Lame.

I still love cropped pants, too. Although I saw footage of Condi rice last night wearing capris, and I thought that was a bit much.

OMG, I'm so excited for Allyson. I love it when people throw stuff away.

The other day I couldn't get up the energy to clean my apartment. But you know what gets me motivated? Going to the the Container Store, buying some shit and starting on re-organizing. That gets me motivated. So I did that.

Cropped pants are of the devil. Capris especially. Dress capris must be hunted down and killed.

I don't suppose it helps to know I'm sporting nasty bruises and I don't know where I got them. Well, ok, I have the perennial bruise on my shoulder from the corner of the car door, but that's a regular. Why do they make that top corner so pokey? It's designed to nail your upper arm.

I don't like corK, but certain wedges I'm ok with. In fact, wearing some now.

In other cheerless news, nature kindly demonstrated its red-in-tooth-and-claw bit this morning . Roadkill plus ravenous raven (huh. those words must be related. Off to OED. )I really did NOT need to see that.

If it weren't for laundry, I swear I could keep my apartment tidy all the time. As is, that disclaimer means it's a lot tidier than it used to be.

I do need an organisation sweep, because I have a file cabinet that's broken, and I could really do with another bookshelf. That I can't get my mojo up for.

I liked The Unit this week, although once you work out that the overarching theme is leaks, and if you believe in the ultimate power of the Haysbert, the con they're pulling gets a little tedious to watch. I thought it was weird that in the final scene, they didn't show the Colonel's face--I'm assuming she's just boffing the one.

Okay, ice done. Into street clothes.

The Unit! That's what I forgot to, um, aquire in a completely legal manner this week. Right.

I wonder if there's a Container Store anywhere near me.

It's like Spring Fever, but with boxes!

Heh.

Creature's picture irks Board of Ed member

State Board of Education member Connie Morris took exception Wednesday to a picture of a made-up creature that satirizes the state's new science standards hanging on a Stucky Middle School teacher's door.

Fellow board member Sue Gamble told The Eagle that Morris asked for the picture to be removed.

The creature, called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, is the creation of Bobby Henderson of Corvallis, Ore. It looks like a clump of spaghetti with two eyes sticking out of the top and two meatballs flanking the eyes.

Henderson created the entity and an accompanying mythology on the origin of mankind to make fun of Kansas' recent debate over the teaching of criticisms of evolution, including intelligent design.

In November, the board voted 6-4 to allow criticisms of evolution to be taught in Kansas schools.

Morris, who voted for the new science standards, saw the picture during the tour. She did not return phone calls for this report.

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The monster's picture has hung on the door since September or October and was put up there as a joke, Mousley said.

"It's a parody," he said. "It's just making fun of anti-evolution."

Mousley said he doesn't teach students about the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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Board chairman Steve Abrams, who voted for the new standards, didn't see the picture but said he thinks that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is silly.

"Personally, I think it's juvenile," he said.

The picture was still on the door at the end of the school day Wednesday.

It's seemed to me that interest in the FSM is waning, but if stuff like this keeps happening, the FSM will be around for a long time....

Also, Steve Abrams had better watch his back... for pirates.

I wonder if there's a Container Store anywhere near me.

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