Cate Blanchett fans should watch her new Elizabeth movie.

Is it going to be...you know, historically accurate? If not, no.

She is going to be naked, though.

Paperdol, my armpit has no sex offenders.

Since last I wrote I have had approx. 1 million comments on the corset. Only one risqué, so that's a blessing.

This is why I don't wear my lace dress that often. It's not inappropriate, but it's a little much.

I swear, I've worn it before and no one said anything. The big difference is that then I was wearing pouffy multi-layered skirts and pretty blouses. Today it's a pretty shapeless tank dress, so it's all about the corset.

But if a guy took a look at me today and complimented me on my shoes (black mary janes with red chinese dragons) I'd do him there and then.

In baseball, one of the potential issues which hasn't happened yet is elective surgery.

There's a corrective surgery known commonly as Tommy John surgery (after the pitcher who first received it) where you use ligaments from the leg to repair ligaments in the elbow. Because they're stronger ligaments you can actually come out throwing harder than you did before. Roger Clemens had that surgery early in his career.

So far nobody has done it electively, but it's a possibility. At some point, somebody will.

Tour de France is now officially more fucked up than Barry Bonds home run record.

I think there will be a time when people just have to create an Unlimited Doping Category for sports. Because the lines are so porous. One of the big advantages in baseball for steroids doesn't have to do with strength but with quicker recovery from strain and injury. It feels harder to argue against that element.

I am feeling quite pathetic and useless at the moment. How am I going to pack all this? And once it's packed, how am I going to get it downstairs? Feeling very sorry for myself and so so missing having an organizing supergenius like, say, vw.

Oh, Emily, I hate packing, so I feel your pain. Do one area at a time and you'll work your way through it. Now, the getting it downstairs thing? Friends to help you load your car?

Well, I'm leaving on Wednesday. Not ideal timing for getting friends to help!

And once it's packed, how am I going to get it downstairs?

If I'm not temping that day, I'll help.

Even on my own, I've moved way more than the contents of your apartment.

You are very sweet, David, thank you.

Tomorrow I'm borrowing a car and taking boxes to the post office. I think while I'm there I'll buy some smaller boxes, then come home and pack up a bunch of books and papers and things and see how that goes. I just keep tripping over more paper, and in fact there's really no space to put things that I take out of boxes, so that's a dilemma.

I'm also feeling downhearted about the things that I may end up moving to Virginia just because I can't figure out how to get rid of them -- a talking Gollum figurine, four big-ass Nene Thomas prints, an old typewriter... Argh. Good thing I'm getting a massage tomorrow morning.