The future's so "bright", I gotta wear a miner's helmet.

I didn't say I was dumb! I said I was dumber than his whole family! That's probably not a lie.

Also, you're NOT dumber than his family, they just have more education, which does not equal dumber.

Also: please to not be using fat as an self-insult. Fat is fat, it's neither good or bad. I think you are looking extremely lovely and healthy these days.

Nora already said what I was going to say, almost verbatim.

Having fewer academic degrees than his family does NOT make you "dumber" than them. The ways in which a person can be whip-smart are innumerable, and you're WAY fucking smart in about a jillion of them. Having a PhD from Uber-University doesn't mean shit, actually (I say this as I look askance at incompetent!boss, whose PhD hasn't stopped him from being one of the most ignorant people I have EVER encountered). t edit Ack! I'm NOT implying that CBD's family is ignorant!!! I'm just saying that *just* because someone has a higher degree than you is no reason to think you're "dumber" than they are. Maybe you know less about their field of experience, but that's about it.

Fat is nothing but a descriptor, lovely bug. You are healthy these days, after the winter of 8 jillion respiratory infections, and moreover, you're bouncingly happy, which contributes to your loveliness.

So there.

So both megan and Perkins let their pictures get taken? Wow.

It's not so much "let" as I am occasionally a asshole ninja paparazzi.

This. Also, sangria.

They've closed downtown Jacksonville because registration for American Idol auditions started at eight this morning. People started camping outside of the arena over the weekend. Auditions don't even begin until Wednesday morning.

And did I mention that it's been in the mid-90s and we're expected to have thunderstorms over the next few days?

American Idol auditions

I'm really glad I don't live anywhere near downtown or have any reason to go there.

"Ninja Paparazzi" would be an awesome video game.

I think you have to be a redhead with blue eyes to be in that pictures.

Ooh! Oooh! Photoshop me in, then!

Or don't. Just send plane ticket so I can actually be in the picture.

They've closed downtown Jacksonville because registration for American Idol auditions started at eight this morning.

You do know that when YOU post this, all I can think is "Oye Mi Canto!", right?

You do know that when YOU post this, all I can think is "Oye Mi Canto!", right?

Heh-- but those auditions would be so much more entertaining-- there'd be at least one catfight and several highly inappropriate costumes with which to at least past the time. Plus, more with the raucous music and less with the earnest power ballads.

IJS

OH SHIT, y'all.

Tom just got laid off.

So, this is my next Spanish assignment:

NASA has discovered a new uninhabited planet (un planeta deshabitado) that is very similar to Earth. They have enough money to send one spaceship (nave espacial) to the planet to start a new civilization. The spaceship can only hold six people. Decide who from the list below gets to go and why.

The list includes an engineer, doctor, student, policewoman, carpenter, nurse, computer programmer, journalist, counselor, and psychologist.

I am SO tempted to write a little piece of science fiction (in Spanish, of course) with the people I chose. I think I've been watching too much B-5 and have an overactive imagination.