the new digs

a) view from balcony
b) view from bedroom
c) view from balcony (looking down)

a)

b)

c)

i love it. come visit, you're all invited.

Quote of the Day: #1

I'm not sure how long I'll really keep this up---but I thought It might be fun (for me).

Maybe itll become the quote of the every-other day...or something

Anyhooo:

I don't know who said this---but I stole it from someones AIM profile and I liked it:

"You're only as strong as
The cocktails you drink
The tables you dance on
And the friendships you keep"

Cheers to that...

I love Tim Gunn

I keep getting very angry "suggestions" that I post a blog. So here it is...my Friday afternoon crappy attempt at a blog post.

I am madly, passionately, obsessed with Tim Gunn. Those of you who don't know about Tim yet...well I am sorry for you. Your life, up to this point, has not been worth living. Tim Gunn is the Chair of the Department of Fashion Design at Parsons School for Design. He is more famous, however, for his role as the designers mentor of sorts on "Project Runway".

He is fabulous. You should all go to the Project Runway website and read his blogs, and watch the show..because that is fabulous too. Tim and I are going to runaway together...because I don't care that he is so very gay, and he doesn't care that he is far more fabulous that I will ever be.

I think it is fairly obvious from my other posts, that Tim wouldn't usually be considered "my type", however it shows just how powerful my love for him is that it wasnt an immediate infatuation, but rather, it has built up over many episodes and many obsessive readings of his blog and watching of his video clips online.

I also want to say this: It has been noted that we are "opinionated". Now well, I don't deny this. I am soooooooooooo opinionated. However, I don't feel Ive been particularly opinionated in this blog so far. So if im gonna be accused of this...Id rather show my true colors.

I think these people should all be shot: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/24/dakota.abortion.ap/index.html

If you haven't heard...some ridiculous people in South Dakota have decided that women shouldnt have the right to an abortion. Fine. You are entitled to that opinion, I think it makes you a huge bigot and a sexist...but fine. However, it is utterly stupid that this virtual BAN on abortion in South Dakota does not make allowances for women who are raped and where the children are products of incest.

Well done South Dakota. This is why no one wants to live in your state.

ode to an intern

i have a new intern at work and his name is lou.

actually, lou is not so much my intern as he is my co-worker. and technically, lou is not new: he's been with the company for 13 years or so, while i have been there exactly one year tomorrow. (valentine's day is my anniversary with work - isn't that sweet/pathetic?)

so why do i call lou my intern? well, because he's endless entertaining and helpful to me on a daily basis. lou knows everything. everything about everything. for example, i mentioned to lou that i missed the season premiere of the west wing this year, and he tracked it down for me and burned it to dvd. awesome.

and then lou found a website where i could play UNO online. and then he discovered this website, which has provided us both with hours and hours and hours of moderately effective boredom-killing internet fun. i highly recommend monkey curling.

also, lou found this picture on the internet:

it's mr. bassi. okay, it's not actually mr. bassi, but it looks a whole lot like him. lou, my intern, found an illustration of mr. bassi online, and he's never even met mr. bassi. now that's a good intern. thanks, lou.

in other news, i have developed a crush on this man:
his name is shawn rojeski and he's on the US men's curling team. i like his glasses and his little beard. you can read all about him here. in the "personal" section, it says "he is single." sweet. shawn, call me.

p.s. my roommate has just invited me to something called a "roller derby." i don't think i've been to a derby of any sort in my entire life. thoughts?

p.p.s. i went to the gym today. the gym. anyone who knows me understands that this is extremely out of character and likely a sign of the apocolypse.

xoxo.

hi. bye.

hello again. i've been a very bad blogger recently, and here's why:

-i moved out.
-i'm working on the olympics broadcast (not in italy, mind you) and it's taken over EVERY WAKING HOUR. guess what time it was when my alarm went off this morning. just guess. did you say 5:40? now guess what time it's going to go off tomorrow morning...

despite that little shitfit, i'm not bitter. just tired.
bassi and eel have been good at picking up my slack on the blog front and they will be abundantly rewarded in this lifetime or the next (read: mr. bassi will have sex with them).

more soon. bye.

My Vindication Day

Remember when Bassi gave me a lot of shit over using lots of parentheses? Yea..me too.
Well today none other than the Sports Guy (Bill Simmons on ESPN.com's Page 2) provided the perfect amo with which to defend my above average usage of the (beloved) punctuation.

In his "More Cowbell" entitled "Breaking Point" he talks about how ESPN the magazine finally increased his word limit from 800 to 1250. He states:

"See, I'm wordy. I like to go on tangents. I like using parentheses. I like babbling. I like taking a few paragraphs to describe something that could easily be done in one. Conserving words has never been a strong suit for me. As you know. And that's what I kept telling them. After 43 agonizing months, I finally wore them down; they threw me a bone and gave me 1,250 words. Good times! I knew I could leverage that offer from High Times into something substantial. " (Emphasis mine)

And my response is : Victory is mine, victory is mine. Great day in the morning, victory is mine. I drink from the keg of glory, (Bassi). Bring me the finest muffins and bagels in all the land. (Thanks West Wing)