yay msbelle

Just watched a really fabulous thing on the Sundance channel about the business end of the red carpet. It started out all gauzy and E! like and then they totally drilled down into how much of a big business it is. Like how some actresses are paid a quarter of a million dollars to wear a dress at the Oscars. And how Scarlett Johannsen's stardom was created by contracts with fashion houses, which at the same time is maintaining Sharon Stone, who doesn't actually act. And how Nicole Kidman made $12m for a commercial for Chanel! It's this whole completely cynical thing to sell perfume, it's amazing. Anyway, I recommend it, it's called "The Red Carpet Issue."

Timelies all!

Trying to type around a cat who is intent on attacking my earrings.

Came home early (migraine crisis). Found a pay-up-or-else notice on my apartment door. Turns out my new apartment manager is the sort of guy who'll put up that notice on a Monday but not have checked his drop box since the Friday before. Great.

At least he apologised and said he'd tell them I dropped the check off only 4 days late.

Ooh, that sounds good, bon.

And that sounds annoying, ita.

A Russian site with tons of pictures of an Ekranoplan

that is one ugly aircraft! It's almost steampunk!

Congrats, msbelle! I hope the rest is smooth sailing, cos you could use some of that in your life!

OMFG. "I wasn't sure what the question from an outside org was referring to, so I asked additional people inside our org. In a way that made it seem like I was passive-aggressively asking them to do my job, rather than trying to clarify what the question meant." HEY. Here's a magical idea: How about if someone ASKS THE OUTSIDE ORG.

I mean, seriously.

Congrats on smooth sailing with the house, msbelle!

I could have done tonight without Devi playing Push Things Off with her glass dish of food while I was making dinner. Just what I wanted to do, clean up glass off the kitchen floor. Then I went looking for my 2008 taxes and they weren't where I keep my taxes. Ahrg. Frantic digging and...I still had them filed with all my mortgage stuff.

It was supposed to be a relaxing evening.

I loved Zoe Saldana's dress. Someone needed to tell her, however, that you don't need to hold up the front of a dress to walk DOWN stairs. Particularly when the front is short. And if its short enough and you haul it up enough you cause my mother to use the word "coochie".

Other than all that though, I loved it.

I could have done tonight without Devi playing Push Things Off with her glass dish of food

I can't leave anything glass around for Amarna to get to due to her love of playing that same game. She broke a glass I had full of water in the first few months after I got her because she felt like whacking it off of the coffee table, and I learned my lesson--I stick with either plastic cups or water bottles now.