Aw, thanks dcp, that's really sweet. I am notoriously unlikely to watch things on dvd (uh, and the only player that works is my laptop and that's not going to AUS.) Basically, if it is on broadcast when I'm home, I'll watch, otherwise I have plenty else to use up my time. I've only seen season 1 of the Wire because of the blizzard in 2010 despite having had the rest of the seasons in house (neighbor's) until I admitted I just wasn't getting around to them.

Kelly Osbourne's mouth is far and away the worst part of her look in that photo. I find it jarring.

looks at the photo again.

Nope, I want that lipstick color, whatever it is.

It's too red and harsh for the lightness of her dress and hair. And it makes insider her mouth look like a crack into another dimension, which is clearly going to leak smoke and small aliens during the afterparties--is anyone keeping tabs on the news? Which parties does she go to?

I liked Mayim Bialik's dress [link] . There was a thing in the NY Times Style section about how she doesn't wear sleeveless or low-cut for religious modesty reasons, and she went through a few designers and dresses that she really didn't like before finding one that was right. I like it, though I think I would have draped the front part a bit differently.

While most of the women we're going to see will be transgressing one or more (more!) of the rules Mayim Bialik follows, I'm sad it took her a few designers to get to what she wanted. I hope that was standard :"Sandy, you're just not feeling me here." thing she was experience, and it's something Christina Hendrix and Lucy Liu and Jennifer Garner (Emma Stone, anyone? Going once...going twice...going three times to the romantic with the nice smile in the corner! Enjoy, and be back before midnight, or you'll turn into a

Um, ita ! You lost me in that post.

I do agree it"s sad it took her a few tries, but after that part you lost me.

I am seriously wanting purple hair. Or at least a single-process deep-bright Bordeaux red with purple streaks. But the price! The upkeep! The damage!

But I WANT!

So, again in a skipping-lots-ignoring-ongoing-conversations-and-poking-my-head-for-a-short-time manner, it's that time of year again, and, yeah, still in a risk of sounding a bit strange:

On Tuesday evening (as most of you clever people probably already know) starts the Jewish holiday of 'Yom Kippur', which means 'Day of Atonement'.

This is a day of soul searching, of trying to better define our faults to ourselves, and try to accept it upon ourselves to become, at least a little, better people. A day of repenting past wrongs we did, looking and finding it in our hearts to forgive wrongs done to us, and trying to remember to learn from this process in the rest of the days of the year. The holiest day of the year for practicing Jews.

On a rough division, there are two kinds of wrongs people can do: against G-d, and hurting their fellow human beings. In Jewish tradition, if the person committing a sin against G-d is truly sorry for what they did, repenting and taking it upon themselves to try and avoid repeating it, G-d forgives those sins.

The deeds which hurt other people, though, are not so 'easily' and personally forgiven. If somebody did anything to harm another person, they would not be able to cleanse themselves from that deed, no matter how much they'd pray and be sorry and repent and try to do good in the future, unless they make amends with the person who was hurt by that deed. As long as peace between people is not achieved, the 'sin', so to speak, is not 'erased from the books' above.

Regardless of the date in the year, I'd hate to think I'd offended somebody here (or everywhere else, for that matter). I don't think that the attempts of becoming a better person than one already is, is something that needs a date or a certain holiday for it, of course. It's just that, for me, having a certain day in the year to stop my daily runnings around, and think of nothing else but the really important things, is a good reminder of the order of priorities I'd like to have in my life.

So, since Wednesday will be, for me, this day of soul-searching, of trying to create a new start in my on-going effort of 'becoming a good human being, or at least a slightly better one', I would like to ask all of you here, if I offended anybody, or hurt any of you lovely people, to tell me about it, and give me the opportunity to apologize, fix it if possible, and also learn from my mistakes, and try to not repeat them (there are so many new ones to practice, why repeat old ones, you know?).

In case I offended anybody, and can't communicate directly with them about it (for whatever reason, especially with my lately irregular internet connection), I can already say that I'm truly sorry. I can honestly say that I didn't mean to - you're all so considerate and thoughtful and generally all-around lovely, that there's absolutely no room for such a thing here. However, I might have had a slip of a keyboard, or mistaken somebody's intentions, or many other possible so forths. Y'all are so understanding, you probably tried to find excuses for me and didn't take offense anyway, but I want to make sure, all the same.

Please don't get me wrong - I'm definitely not trying to go around in a 'holier-than-thou' show off, or force my personal beliefs on others, or make statements which may be understood as criticizing anybody else's beliefs (or lack thereof) and way of living. If anything, being around here, among such a rich versatile group of kind and clever people, has exposed me to a lot more ways of choosing to lead one's life than I've ever had a chance to see before, and has shown me much more of the beauty and richness that is the world we live in.

[Edit: this is especially true this year, with my oh-so-short computer time and internet access, which gave so way too many opportunities to unintentionally miss stuff or seem to ignore (undeliberately!) people or their posts or even the one thing I tried to maintain posting, their birthdays. While you guys are always so there-for-anybody-who-needs (including little me). So this is a chance to also post: Thank you.]

I love Nilly.

That is all.

I liked Kelly Osbourne's dress and hair. And I thought the lipstick was fine but clashed with the dress.

I loved Tina Fey's dress. I also really liked Sofia Vergara's dress. I think it fits her personality.