Simon ,'Out Of Gas'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Love, love, love Priscilla with a deep and abiding passion.
and Simply Ballroom.
Australia - sailing friends & Peter Carey, The Man From Snowy River
London - Mary Poppins, Dickens (my aunt read them to me. see: how to warp a brain in three easy steps), Wordsworth
New York - Sesame Street, my dad's books on bridges, my cousins.
Berlin - Wings of Desire
Chi - Ferris Bueller
New Zealand - Keri Hulme, Once Were Warriors
Dear god, could this day be any more screwed up?
Wait, don't answer that.
You know how I was going to stay home tuesday? Looks like doing so would fuck the week up even worse.
Australia - Crocodile Dundee, Mad Max
New York - Sesame Street, 1/2 of all sitcoms made, Escape from New York.
London - Mary Poppins
Tokyo- Godzilla
San Francisco - Big Trouble in Little China
Chicago - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
This weekend did not go as planned. Saturday while taking a shower, the cold water knob broke off. While I was driving to get a replacement knob, the HVAC fan in my car stopped working. Luckily, I was able to find a local auto parts store that had a blower motor for my car in stock (last one) and I was able to fix that, but while contorting myself to get under the dash I put out my back. I couldn't get the cold water knob off without stripping the screw head so I'm stuck with mismatched knobs in the shower.
Sunday, I had to get in some work I had planned to do Saturday so I missed watching the Chiefs play the Titans, though in hindsight that can be seen as a blessing.
Sorry your day is going so poorly sarameg, I hope it improves.
ION, I'm a little concerned about traffic tonight since McCain is having a rally very near my house this afternoon. On the plus side you know what this means? That's right unlike you commie left coasters and north easterners, I live in a wonderful little pocket of the real America, a pro-America area of this great nation where people are hard working and patriotic.
This morning, the bus driver missed a turn. Then he asked me for direction. He said he'd never driven the route before.
That's the second time that's happened. The first time there was a closed road the driver didn't know about, so I told her where that route was detouring....
My first bike commute was, let's say, semi-successful.
It was successful in that I got here, and I did not die.
But instead of the 40 minutes it should have taken, I made it here in just under 2 hours. This included 1 construction-related detour and a couple of bad-signage related detours, but still. I R SLOW.
Yeah, for me, Chicago was definitely defined by the John Hughes flicks: Ferris, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, She's Having a Baby and my impressions of Washington, D.C. or at least, of Georgetown, were reinforced by St. Elmo's Fire.
I still remember that I went to see that movie on my eighteenth birthday, my first week of college.
ION, I'm a little concerned about traffic tonight since McCain is having a rally very near my house this afternoon. On the plus side you know what this means? That's right unlike you commie left coasters and north easterners, I live in a wonderful little pocket of the real America, a pro-America area of this great nation where people are hard working and patriotic.
He's not visiting my city. I must not live in the real America.
Yay for riding to work, Jessica! I still haven't figured out the logistics for doing that. It's only about a 5.5 mile ride.
I somehow effed up my back getting into bed yesterday morning. It hurts when I twist now. OW! I've been putting heat on it and I'm on the ibuprofs full time anyway. What helped the most was the bourbon my friend and I were drinking at an outside production of MacBeth last night. (Performed at the ruins of an old school west of town. Spooky!)