90210 is passing me by for the second time -- I've never seen an episode of the original, and so I see no reason to watch the new one.

DH, Sassafras and I went to walk on the tow path today - we walked at least 8 miles, likely closer to 10 because we went on one of the trails. The weather was fabulous, and we had a lovely picnic by the Potomac. DH and I are wiped. The dog is biting at my pants to try and get me to play when I stand up and walk across the room. I wish I had her energy. Maybe if I sit here very, very quietly, she'll finally puppy-flop.

Perkins, I hope you have a great party. I wish I could be there.

Happy Birthday, Sue!

tommyrot, phone home!

Happy Birthday, Sue!

Now I'm worried about tommyrot, too. I've got his e-mail at work, but it looks like Laura and Brenda have it covered.

Sarameg, don't call him Zool! He'll start acting all, "There is no Sarameg, only Zool..."

The kitten-that-may-be-named-Zephyr does not understand he cannot eat peoplefood, nor can he walk on the keyboard, nor can he shred my bills.

Amarna still hasn't learned she can't walk on keyboards, mostly because I just yell at her when she does it and manages to rearrange my screen layout by pressing some obscure combination of keys.

I've never seen an episode of the original, and so I see no reason to watch the new one

Sparky is me, in spite of the fact that my first online community was a 90210 fangroup on Prodigy. (One of the members was a RL friend of mine from school. I managed to participate actively for a couple of years without being outed. And then Prodigy started charging for the bulletin boards, and the 90210LC faded into obscurity. Makes me glad there was a wider internet to run to when the same thing happened to TT.)

Oh, and I meant to thank Hec for that Eddie Vedder song link! They've been talking about it over at the Tribune, but I always read about it while I was at work and felt weird about downloading the song. It's pretty good, but not as good as Steve Goodman's two Cubs songs ("Go Cubs Go" and "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request," the second of which will hopefully be obsolete after this postseason!).

Speaking of--way to go Cubs for clinching the division! And the earliest clinch since 1936.

The funniest thing just happened, in a "why are college students sometimes lacking common sense" way...

I asked the stage manager to schedule fittings "every half hour, with a half hour break for lunch". She scheduled them every half hour from 9:00 am - 3:30 pm, then an hour break, then one more fitting at 4:30!! I swear that when I was 19 I would not have done that unless it was an availability thing!

Someone has created a food website just for Hec.

I think work would notice before anyone else did if I went missing. Not sure what they'd do about it, but they would probably notice.

In many ways this is me. My students would notice at once if I wasn't there and start calling/emailing. Draconian Dictator would probably notice his "whipping teacher" was gone after a few days.

Of course Hub would notice now that his schedule is 'normal'. When he was doing shift work, it probably would have taken him a few days to realize I was gone because we could easily go 3-4 days without seeing one another.

I might have Miriam's email. If I don't hear anything by tomorrow I'll try to track her down.

I loved the first 90210 which I watched over and over in its entirety when I worked from home. Though the term worked should be used very very loosely.

We went to visit Grace after the pool today. Two random things.... on our way from the pool to Grace's place, we passed a road called Miss Grace Drive. K had to convince me that I'm too old to steal street signs but I wanted that one so bad.

Then the church next door to Grace's place had an ELEPHANT. Seriously. An actual elephant who was giving rides. Random!

I only care about the old characters on the new 90210, so it was nice that some girls in the nail place were analysing the whole Kelly's baby daddy thing -- they seemed too young to have watched the original, but that seemed to be the only plot point they cared about, and they had extensive Bev knowledge to bring to bear on the conversation.

This group of young women also included one who told me I didn't need my eyebrows done "that much" when I added that to my mani/pedi.

You know I'm obsessed with the nail place, and this kind of thing just feeds into it.