I want it to be the weekend already. Except that I want people on the East Coast and central time to have NOT made it the weekend already, because that has made my job very difficult today. ARGH.

I may be a jerk. Because even with the chair and my daddy issues and all that, I crossed a guy off my Datable List because he wrote a too-passionate blog post about "Two and A Half Men". It wasn't just that, though...we weren't going to click. But a lot of my friends would have tried to make a go of it because "He likes the Coen brothers and the wheelchair doesn't make him gag." But I have that. With y'all. Also, we ended up talking about virus protection. Sexy!

The supermarket had what was clearly chicken breasts with a chicken thighs label, making them $1.59 a pound. I bought them, but now feel faintly guilty. As Huck Finn said, "If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does, I would pison him."

I think you have to pay attention to what pings you, erika. (I closed out a "match" on eHarmony - even though the guy's profile looked promising - when I got to the part about how he admires Rush Limbaugh. Even though everything else looks great, telling me you learned anything from Rush Limbaugh better be followed by a winking emoticon (real or implied) or I'll do my darnedest to avoid conversing or (shudder) debating with you). You know what buttons you don't want pressed or what larger problems just one blog post might be a symptom of.

thanks, sj!

Exactly, EpicT.

The thought of mice in my walls is starting to freak me out a bit.

I really really liked the first Vicki Bliss novel...especially her adorable German boss...but subsequent ventures seemed pretty pat and a bit too copy cat. Plus, different, less compelling reader.

Honestly, there are some bad books I've stuck with just for the accents and performance and some good books I've passed on because the reader actually...you know...reads.

I started one yesterday (jumping the Pratchett line because it was due back at the library soon) that was read by Tim Curry. His voice generally makes me wibble. This outing, however, was so wicked boring, I had to turn it off. Such a waste. (it's called Portabello...HOW could it be bad?)

serial: I also tend to shy away from author read books, with some exceptions.

My favorite is Patty Jane's House of Curl by Lorna Lanvik. I listen to it a couple of times a year. I bought it out of the remainder bin because it was shrinkwrapped with one of those pink foam curlers from the 50s. Rule of thumb: If it makes me laugh, it gets my money.

Anyway, it wasn't until roughly 6 years later when I stumbled on the Costco book club (such a thing exists?) only to learn that Lorna Lanvik was with me on the Great Peace March. We walked across America together but I did not recognize her voice!!

She has written the March into subsequent books, which of course I think is ubercool.

I love Lorna Lanvik's books! My dad gave me one of her books as a Christmas gift. I'd asked for another book but he couldn't find it, and Lanvik's were right there so he bought me one instead.