Lee, I'm jealous. It took me several months and 4 service calls to get the phone company to finally fix ours. Seriously, 4 service calls. Each guy would come, agree that it was most likely a problem with the line coming into the house, and then leave without fixing it. I coulda kissed the guy who finally went up the dang pole and fixed it.

Um, can lower GI stuff manifest in back spasms?

Just as a FYI, so can a kidney infection. Be careful.

Yo, Hec! How's it going?

It's going okay! Emmett is now hooked on ANTM. He totally gets sucked into reality shows. He was also into Shear Genius and JZ has him watching Top Chef too.

He was hating on Monique tonight.

Emmett's all-star team has a chance to win their district tomorrow night. That would be awesome.

I have to finish my book by next Wednesday. I have to become more awesome.

Traveler: Now I must agree that there's got to be a reason that they cast people so similar looking to play Will and Tyler. There were several times during tonight's episode when I thought that Tyler was Will and Vice-Versa. Also the timeline for tonight's episode has me confused. When the heck did Will have time to travel back to NYC from Boston? Or was the tattooed guy in NYC?

Plus you can drink wine and watch So You Think You Can Dance. Or look out onto downtown and smoke.

Guh. Jealous!

people, good hair salons should not make you look like shit in the mirror!

You sure? I was thinking maybe they needed the strong lighting to make sure hair colors come out right, or something.

Actually, I was mainly thinking that I really am that pasty and ugly, but I know these other people aren't.

I was thinking maybe they needed the strong lighting to make sure hair colors come out right, or something.

That's what I thought, too. But really if that's the case, my hair will look good at work and maybe not anywhere else. I'd rather they worked in something approximating sunlight.

Which reminds me, I think there's a salon in Princeton that has skylights or something. I should check.

Oh good, sumi. I haven't watched last night's yet, but it's been driving me crazy that half the time I'm not sure who's who. I'm glad it's not just me.

I never thought about the lighting - I just thought it was the fact that your hair is all wet and in weird positions. I just try not to look too much until near the end.

I think the hair salon thing is a combination of weird wet hair and just sitting in front of a mirror for so long, not really doing anything with your face. That's just not something that most people do very often.

I woke up at five and couldn't get back to sleep. So I decided to stay up. Went to my favorite neighborhood breakfast-type place at 6:00 - the two employees were just arriving themselves. Had steak and eggs.

Got to work 1/2 hour early (but I have to leave early so it's OK). Am now wired on coffee.

My new place has one floor - the top - devoted to color, nails, facials, etc., and has a skylight as well as artificial light. I'm wondering if they set it up so that you could see how the color looks in real light. The next floor down is for cuts, and the lighting is softer there. Of course, with my glasses off it's all one big blur anyway, so I don't actually see what I look like until I'm done.