I was excited about it until I started reading more reviews. Now I think I'll wait for the DVD.

A group of women at school gave us an orchid. I've never had an orchid before, but I've always thought of them as high maintenance plants. Is it wise to give two people who are incredibly distracted by Other Things a plant that is easy to kill?

I thought so too. I have had an orchid on my desk since January 20. That's when we had a luncheon with them on the tables and I took one back. I figured it would last a week or two, then I'd go back to cut flowers on my desk. The damn thing won't die. I water it once a week with lukewarm water, and the worst that has happened is two flowers have fallen off.

Question on noun/verb agreement:

Faculty do, or faculty does? I can't remember if faculty is treated as singular or plural.

So, who is excited about Grindhouse?

Me! I have an advance ticket for a show tonight.

Actually, I have two because I realized if I went to the show I pre-ordered for Boston, I'd need to take a cab to guarantee I'd make the last train back, and THAT would cost as much as just getting a ticket for Danvers, where I can drive instead (the latter weren't available pre-today on-line for some reason).

Nora, I think collective nouns are generally treated as singular in American English (though if it were me, you could get away with both). If the faculty is doing something together as a unit, then it's singular.

Movies like Grindhouse are the reason I like going to the noisy theater in Brooklyn where they yell back at the screen. I'm sorry I'm out of town for the opening.

I started the hair-cutting trend

You totally did, Theo. It was looking at your lovely cut (so good for your face!) that prompted me to remember I needed to get mine cut and make an appointment. It's Buffista hair madness!

I would be excited about Grindhouse except I've been up since midnight. After I've slept I'll be more enthused about it.

Although I just realized, it's almost certainly playing in the drafthouse theater. That will definitely help raise my excitabily level.

I'm seeing Grindhouse at The Bridge tonight. I'm exhausted beyond belief because my dreams have been vivid and my sleep particularly strange recently.

I think I get to nap beforehand, and I may have to appropriate a shoulder to hide behind during the show. Most of the movies that demand a big screen viewing end up...oh, who am I kidding. Movie theatres give me migraines. But I no longer do any of the fancy stuff like driving or thinking. Kinda mitigates.

I'm posting from work. Don't tell anyone. And I'm running away again, because despite not having any work to do right now, I still feel guilty.

I would be excited about Grindhouse except I've been up since midnight. After I've slept I'll be more enthused about it.

I can sympathize. I did a sleep study last night, though "lack-of-sleep study" would be more accurate. Oh well, at least they got to monitor one of my bad nights of sleep instead of an anomolous good one. Way too hard to get comfortable with all the wires and the tubes up my nose, and they were a little too eager to get me to try out the CPAP device (though my lack of actually being able to sleep eventually deep-sixed that idea - the problem's not sleeping, people; when I do sleep it's usually good sleep, just short-lived).

I'm going to be completely gronked by the time this lets out tonight.