Williamsburg.

I must live in the wrong place. Because when I saw that, my first thought was, "Virginia." Which is a lot of things, most having nothing to do with hipsters.

And 18-1/2 years with the same bureau, bouncing among divisions in roughly 4+, 2.75, 4.5, 4, and almost-3-and-counting.

I have a friend who just got his MFA from Bard, is a living-on-the-poverty-line unshaved painter, and he and his painter friends are in the process of renovating a loft in Williamsburg. I can't believe I actually know a walking cliché.

Just thinking about going carb-less for, like, an hour makes me twitchy.

Am I the only person here watching Top Design? I think Kelly Wearstler may have outdone herself with her clothes and hair this time!

She's totally crazy! Every week it's some new monstrosity! The strapless gown over the jeans and T-shirt was a total @@ for me, but this week, OMG, I had no words.

I loved this week, though. The special guest judge! Wheee!

I have a friend who just got his MFA from Bard, is a living-on-the-poverty-line unshaved painter, and he and his painter friends are in the process of renovating a loft in Williamsburg. I can't believe I actually know a walking cliché.

That's kind of cool, actually.

I'm having my 15th anniversary with my employer this November 30th, and my current boss was my first boss here--I'm back in the same field, just managing the crap job I did before it got outsourced.

ION, today's dinner was like an early birthday present for me! My favorite dinner in the entire five weeks of dinners was tonight--turkey meatloaf, garlic mashed potatoes, creamed corn, and cabbage (I like to mix the last two together--yummy!!). Between that, tomorrow's birthday lunch of my very favorite salad from the salad bar at work, and then Saturday's dinner out at the tapas restaurant, it's already a very happy birthday weekend (and I'm taking a half-day off tomorrow).

I think Kelly Wearstler may have outdone herself with her clothes and hair this time!

Just watched it! I kind of love her wacky sense of style. It's like she's just daring one of the contestants to respond with "Oh yeah, well you have stupid hair!"

It's like she's just daring one of the contestants to respond with "Oh yeah, well you have stupid hair!"

Please please please please let this happen.

GA: My DVR cut off the episode at the scene with Meredith and McDreamy in bed. I think it was very near the end of the episode. Did anything important happen after that?

Andy Barker P.I. makes me laugh. I give it the Recommended!

sj: I think the only thing that followed was a scene where Izzie was stripping her bed and sobbing followed by one with Callie and George where she said she could still smell his stinky clothes through the plastic bag he put them in, and he said "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry" and she said she could learn to live with it. the last shot was George's face, looking haunted. I think that was everything.

Hmmm, I should Tivo that Andy Barker.

Today's Minor Annoyance: I'm reading the Slate review of TAL on Showtime. They have a preview of the Chris Ware animation of one bit about elementary school kids who create fake cardboard tv cameras. And the climax is: there was a fight on the playground and the kids crowded around and pretended to shoot it on their cameras and didn't break up the fight. And there's much pooh-poohing about how they lost their humanity when they had the cameras and didn't intervene, but kids always stand around in a circle and watch a fight. They don't break it up. It wasn't fucking Kitty Genovese! Dipshits.

Otherwise I liked the Chris Ware animation.