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MOOD: interested SOUNDS: TV  Yeah, huh.
My brief thoughts in no particular order:
- Cate Blanchett: all-ecompassing, genuine and gorgeous, you go Cate! She said "Bling Bling" to Starr Jones. Wow, Katherine Hepburn.
- Laura Linney: totally classy, the necklace is gorgeous
- I love the American Express commercials, reminds me of a short film/commercial (I think done by Francis Copolla) last year starring Deniro contemplating getting some work done on his face, ending with something to the effect that he's fine just like he is
- Hilary Swank: she will always have a special place in my heart... amazing, she's won two Oscars in 4 years for best actress. Everyone will be shitting in their pants around her now.
- Scarlett Johansen: she looks great! She usually looks like a big dud, but she's finally getting it together, hopefully. I love the Greek look in the hairstyles. She's lost a lot of weight since Lost in Translation - is that growing into a woman and losing baby fat, or is it the more depressing thought that her agents convinced her that she'd never get anywhere in the biz while being of an average weight for a woman.
- Renee Zellwegger: don't like the dark hair, it brings out the quirks in her face. Her body, as usual, though, is slammin'! I couldn't believe how great she looked during Chicago, and gasp she was so completely breath-taking last year in that red dress. Sorry, though I adore Nicole Kidman, I think Renee kinda got robbed that year
- Nicole Kidman: where the fuck is she? Isn't she sort obliged to present since she won best actress last year? Or, am I missing a year in here somewhere. I don't know where my mind is lately.
- Penelope Cruz and Selma Hayek: what a fantasy.... That's all I'm going to say.
- Kate Winslet: adorable in that brilliant blue dress - she's lost a lot of weight, too. ?
- Annette Benning: the more that time goes on, she reminds me more and more of the eccentric Sharon Stone. Warren Beatty looks like a wife beater - sorry. He needs to get over himself.
- Antonio Bandares: was he in that movie? Who ever told him he could sing? I hate crossover talent like that- I hate him! Yuck!
- Charlize Theron: yeah, I had a major brain fart, there - it was she who won best actress last year, Nicole the year before that. Where the hell is she, though?? Oh, there she is finally - she's absolutely stunning.
I think it was the summer last year that I stopped going to the movies regularly because the movies were such crap. I kinda never got back into the habit. (shoutout to Whoopie Goldberg!) Movies I'm going to have to see now:Tons. I'm really interested to see a couple, and others are kind of obligatory, to be honest. My favorite film of last year was Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and even that -- good as it was -- was not thrilling. I should just buy that on DVD and watch it over and over again until I'm convinced that it's indeed Great.   I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream." EXCERPT FROM A SLATE ARTICLE: "On the subject of actors, a reader asked about Hilary Swank's second coming—and why she needed to come again. Swank was astounding in Boys Don't Cry, but not many people saw the movie. And Swank's political strategy might have been problematic. She was careful to dress very femmy and to cite her husband as early in her interviews and acceptance speeches as possible. She took a lot of girly roles. She didn't want to be typecast as a tomboy, and she didn't want anyone to think she was a dyke—God forbid. And although she is an extremely striking young woman, I've heard that male studio types don't consider her sufficiently "f---able"—their favorite adjective for describing leading ladies. She needed another tomboy martyr role, and did she get it."
Good bloggin' entries
Bloggers:The Hot Librarian (we spent the afternoon together discussing my penchant for strip clubs - pt1 pt2 - then we talked about my boobs) Not bloggers:Faithless MoreUrban DictionaryMad Libs
How Lazy, or Pretentious, Do You Have to Be...
(not sure which category to put this one in, maybe just plain ole stupid)
... to stop, and turn off, your car at the mailboxes when your parking spot is only 30 more feet away? I have two neighbors who do this on a daily basis. I just thought of the category to put them in. I'm going to borrow one from the Book of Beanie: "That is so foul." ------------ I just put clear fingernail polish on, and it's official now. I am growing bonafide claws, now. Good! I love pumas.
Today's World in Brief
The Wal-Mart ManifestoThe retail giant's CEO says his company pays workers handsomely, average wage is around $10 an hour, 74 percent of Wal-Mart hourly store associates work full-time, part-time employees have health insurance, and that what's good for Wal-Mart is good for the economy. (Read on). Wal-Mart. Always. Bushism of the Day"After all, Europe is America's closest ally."—Mainz, Germany, Feb. 23, 2005
MOOD: biting nails SOUNDS: air-conditioning, yes this early in the year I was looking through all of the entertaining bloggers I've put on my list (I should really be in bed, I am going to be pissed at myself in the morning - this is my life), and I'm worried that Anne Alone hasn't updated her blog in almost two weeks. This, after writing a few entries ago that she attempted suicide, and that her depression continues.  I hope I didn't kill her. Or, something I said. OK, that's not funny to joke about, and I don't know if I'm really joking. Although, I don't believe I have the power to make someone kill themselves anyway. (Unless, perhaps, if I meant to). I wonder what is going on with her.... Hope things are getting better, instead of the alternative.
Britain WANTS Gays in their Military, and are actively recruiting themFive years after Britain lifted its ban on gays in the military, the Royal Navy has begun actively encouraging them to enlist and has pledged to make life easier when they do. The navy announced Monday that it had asked Stonewall, a group that lobbies for gay rights, to help it develop better strategies for recruiting and retaining gay men and lesbians. It said, too, that one strategy may be to advertise for recruits in gay magazines and newspapers. Last year, Parliament passed the Civil Partnership Act, which gives marriage-style rights to British gays who have registered as couples. The entire military is subject to the legislation, and starting in the fall, gay couples in the military who have registered under the act will be allowed to apply for housing in quarters previously reserved for married couples.States looking to make Poker legalA handful of states are looking at having money-less poker games in bars and other public places. Some talk of bills that would explicitly legalize Texas Hold'em (but not other forms of poker) so long as prizes do not top $200. Two bars in Louisiana face administrative hearings where they could lose their liquor licenses for betting that poker would bring them a full house. In Texas (those jackasses), a lawyer for the state prosecutors' association contends that playing for any prize - even points to be redeemed later for T-shirts or trips - is illegal, and the attorney general is expected to issue an opinion on the matter in May.
 And, one I did buy: I SUPPORT SINGLE MOMSIt's time to sit down and declare your support for single moms. Won't you lend a lap? 
MOOD: constantly amazed  This is so frickin' cool. Check it out. Find of the Week Feb 6, 2005. Especially for the usage of the word "contrive". MUST get to bed now, I am so exhausted.
Freak
MOOD: infuriatedBush signs bill to curb class-action suits WASHINGTON (AP) -- As President Bush signed legislation Friday aimed at discouraging multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuits, he made clear he had his sights set on much broader restraints. Next up, Bush said, should be curbs on asbestos litigation and medical malpractice awards.
Even though businesses failed to get the measure to apply to suits already in the courts, the legislation was a victory for companies that have complained for decades that they have been dragged into far-flung local courts and subjected to massive, unwarranted jury awards.
Consumer groups contend that federal courts are much less sympathetic to - or even less likely to hear - class-action suits, which are a crucial tool against well-financed industries like tobacco, oil, pharmaceutical and others. As a result, Alliance for Justice President Nan Aron called it "legislation that makes it easier for corporations to evade responsibility for making right their wrongs." "President Bush once again demonstrated that the deep pockets of powerful corporate interests are more important to this administration than protecting the rights of ordinary Americans," Aron said in a statement.
In the nine-minute White House ceremony, Bush said a half-dozen times that the legislation was only a beginning in his drive to end "the lawsuit culture in our country."
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What the HELL is this country coming to when a wad-of-toilet-paper piece-of-trash idea like this is on the bestsellers' list? WTF! He's Just Not That into YouThe No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys I have an idea. Get over yourself and grow up. Also, open your eyes.
Your President, ladies and gentlemen
MOOD: doesn't this scare you? Then, put down your ham sandwich and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! 
COMMENT: This is just bizarre. And, they call the Al-Queda Muslims fanatics.  LISBON (Reuters) - Lucia de Jesus dos Santos, the last of three children who claimed to see the Virgin at Fatima and who revealed a vision the Catholic Church said foretold the attempt to kill Pope John Paul (news - web sites), died on Sunday, the Church said. The Vatican (news - web sites) interpreted one part of the visions as foretelling the attempt to kill the Pope and Communism's persecution of Christianity. The apparitions took place the same year as the Russian Revolution.
In a sign of gratitude a year after the assassination attempt, the Pope had one of the 9mm bullets which Agca fired at him placed in the crown of the statue at Fatima.
The Vatican revealed its interpretation of the vision during the Pope's visit to Fatima in May 2000 on the anniversary of the assassination attempt. One of her last public appearances was with the Pope at Fatima. Dos Santos's recollection of the third part of the visions, which she wrote down in 1944, saw "a bishop dressed in white (and) we had the impression that it was the Holy Father." As the vision continued, the children say the Pope reaching the top of a mountain where "he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him."
Dos Santos was born the youngest of seven children in a peasant family in Aljustrel, a village in central Portugal. In 1916 she experienced her first vision, when an angel appeared to the children, she wrote in her memoirs. On May 13, 1917, the Virgin Mary appeared to her and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marta on an oak tree. On her last appearance before an estimated 50,000 onlookers, witnesses claim to have experienced a 15-minute spectacle of bright lights and rainbow colors.
One of her last visitors was actor Mel Gibson, director of the 2004 movie "The Passion of The Christ." He met her at the convent in July 2004 and gave her a DVD of his movie.
 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop star Britney Spears (news) won the first Grammy Award of her brief but colorful career on Sunday, taking the prize in the best dance recording category. Spears, 23, was honored for her chart-topping song "Toxic," which appeared on her 2003 album "In the Zone." Spears was previously nominated six times: twice each in 2000, 2001 and 2003. With her record sales tapering off in recent years, Spears has instead attracted headlines for such acts as kissing Madonna (news - web sites) at the MTV Video Music Awards, getting married twice in one year, and using public toilets in bare feet.
MOOD: tired SOUNDS: NPR Just heard a commentary on NPR about how to ask the person you meet and might start to date "Red or blue?" Conservative or liberal. --Ever heard of just asking?-- Love should be above petty political differences.... Love should be able to conquer all things. I don't know what delusion they (or the country) lives in that they think love should conquer such petty things, or that such things are even petty.
Arthur Miller dies at age 89
MOOD: interested and reminiscent  It's funny because I was just thinking of All My Sons yesterday. Must have been a premonition.
New Drugs for Women
MOOD: comical  Also known as heroine in countries outside the U.S. D A M N I T O L -- Take 2 and the rest of the world can go to hell for up to 8 full hours. M E N I C I L L I N -- Potent anti-boy-otic. Increases resistance to such lethal lines as, "You make me want to be a better person ..Can we get naked now?" E M P T Y N E S T R O G E N -- Suppository that eliminates melancholy and loneliness by reminding you of how awful they were as teenagers and how you couldn't wait till they moved out. F L I P I T O R -- Increases life expectancy of commuters by controlling road rage and the urge to give other drivers the finger. J A C K A S S P I R I N -- Relieves headache caused by a man who can't remember your birthday, anniversary, phone number, or to lift the toilet seat. A N T I-T A L K S I D E N T -- A spray carried in a purse or wallet to be used on anyone too eager to share their life stories with total strangers in elevators.
Ziggy
MOOD: Involved SOUNDS: Slow Jams (?)  I love this picture.... David Bowie, fool!
AOL Translator
MOOD: flumoxed but suddenly feeling very free to be meYou can write like a 12-year-old, too! ttp://ssshotaru.homestead.com/files/aolertranslator.htmlJERI: IM TEH BST GIRLFREIND 3V3R!!!!1!!!1!!!!11!111!!1!!!!!! OMG WTF LOL
When your mom discovers your blog
Test
MOOD: annoyed SOUNDS: silence What's with the big fucking space at the top of my posts. But, yay, my addition of a DISCLAIMER worked! I am so awesome! Bye, beautiful.
Okay, I have to get off the computer for tonight!
My life feels like it's been in a whirlwind, lately. And, my brain is buzzing. There's been so many things going on, so many adventures I've been getting myself into.
I had a couple of things planned for tonight when I got home from work, and I didn't do any of them! Bad me! I've been trying to figure out the interminable maze that is Blogger.com and it's Hello picture uploader. What a mess. It's been a challenge that I couldn't give up until I figured it out.
This week, I need to just chill, though. Which means that certain people will not be getting emails from me until possibly this weekend. Unlike me, but, hey, that's life.
I need to clear my head because I finally got all of my recommendations for SW school back from the people I asked to do them, and now it's time for me to write a concise, yet heartfelt, Intent Letter to the SW school about why I want to be in their program. And, I swear, it's not just because I don't want to work where I do not, either. More on that another f'in time!
Right now, I am going to treat myself and take a warm bath. It occurred to me how busy I've been when I realized I haven't had the time to take an actual bath in over three weeks now.
Good night!
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Where's the little smiley's, indicating your mood? I NEED THAT.. lol Current Mood: BAD :-( This is a test blog. link to Yahoo http://yahoo.comIt's got different fonts, like this arial one, and also different text sizes. I wonder if I can change to this smaller font as a default. It would be a PAIN to have to change it every time.There are also diff colors and italics and bold which can be accessed with CTRL+b or i- number lists
- are available
i can do blockquotes here in case I want to quote someone, or something I
heard. I will also change the font so that it looks different in the
block. Um, how the fuck do I turn it off, though?
ACK!
Mother frickin shit. OK, maybe the cursing did it! Have to change the font again, though. Need to check on changing the default text, tho, maybe in my profile. Actually, I don't have to change the font b/c it's perfect in the template. Templates look like they're easy to change, too.
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