"Damn, please don't make me look that different between 20 and 40, dear god!"

Yeah, but she doesn't really. That was one seriously bad picture. Which I am using as the underpinning of my belief that Cary Elwes too was the victim of a massive photocrime.

Ugh, ita. Why was that not the magic bullet? I call bullshit.

I'm back from Fancy Weekend, but I forgot to bring The Book! Der. And of course, after millions of hours of driving, we never went by one Barnes and Noble.

Also, did people talk about "Big Noise from Winnetka" without mentioning Bette Midler? She's how I know the song.

I hope they at least got some useful intel, ita.

I don't know if ear infections are necessarily contagious, but if it is some bacteria causing them, I guess it could be. My experience is only with having them.

ION, looking at MD's comprehension tests...who the fuck writes these things? I found grammatical errors, poor construction, run on sentences and I don't even want to talk about the questions. Some of them relied on inference (good) but because of the poor essays, more than one of the answers could be inferred, legitimately. And I'm not saying this because I don't wanna flunk the test. Boolean logic applied. WTfuckingF?!

And the math stuff? Well, at least they have the answers correct. But good explanation and flow of concepts? Forget it. NCLB my ass. More like No Test Writer Left Unemployed.

I started reading WtVPPLtL and I will only be reading it on the subway where other riders can get a good look at the cover. So that narrows my times down a bit. Still I laughed out loud today and got the "yikes, I'm sitting next to a crazy" looks.

I've reread it a goofy number of times. I realize part of it is that it is part of a world that's meant a helluva lot to me, so reading a love letter to that world? Comfort food. Makes me smile every time.

But it's also just a flat out good read.

I really do wonder how I manage to maintain continuous bruising on both elbows. I don't remember banging them into anything!

Do you lean on your elbows on your desk?

I was just thinking pressure bruises myself. My mom gets those all the time—her arms might as well be bananas for how easily the skin bruises.

Newp. I'm gonna try to see if I use the arms of my work chair (balance ball at home, laptop. No elbowing,) but I don't think I do, just because I sit on the edge of it with my feet either stretched all the way out or balanced precariously, with them tucked nearly backwards behind me a la those backless knee chairs. I'm so non-ergo.

OTOH, I can be ridiculously clumsy, so random bashing is also a possibility.

And I do bruise easily. Kneeling accomplishes it.

It looks like Sis and future BIL will be renting a house in Chatsworth, CA, just west of Northridge. They also applied for a house in Winnetka, but they like the first one better. He'll be working downtown, though, so his commute will be about 35 miles or so. She's guessing it'll take an hour to drive it, I'm guessing a bit more. They do have some grass in the backyard for their three lapdogs, but the big plus is the pool. Also, they'll have a (small) master bath, something most of the houses they were looking at didn't have.

Skipping to post that, according to the Buffista Calendar, today is juliana's birthday.

Happy birthday, juliana! With lots of wishes for a great day and a wonderful year!