For anyone who missed it before, I started a Lost discussion group on Yahoo. Contact me if you’d be interested in joining.

New episode tonight! Whee! 🙂

Yeah, I’ve been a busy girl this week. 🙂

Here are a few tidbits I found noteworthy:

I keep hearing all about this How I Met Your Mother. Any of you watching it? I hate to feel like I’m missing something, but at the same time, I have a hard enough time keeping up with the shows I already watch!

Ooh…how much fun is this? Movie reviews from Statler and Waldorf.

(the photo is a link. I finally took the 3.5 seconds to learn how to do that. turns out it’s really, really easy. anyone want to teach me how to make them open in a new window?)

While I haven’t been doing much posting, I have been doing some reading…head over to The Places I Go to find out what. 🙂

(My thought is that I completely immerse myself in reading for a while, then take a step back and focus on writing…we’ll see how that goes…)

I’m not working today, for the express purpose of accomplishing other things I want to accomplish. Problem is, where do I start? I’m pulling myself in fifteen different directions. Ack.

First on my list is getting my new website going. 🙂 I got my (nearly) free business cards in the mail over the weekend. Yippee!

Oh, and here’s a funny…I spotted this poster last week and meant to post about it. Thanks to Thomas for spotting it, taking a photo, and posting it on his shameful typos site.

The offending poster was for a free resume workshop. I’m thinking, “I’m going to let these people help me write my resume?”

Yeesh.

Steelers win!

(I am obligated to post about the Steelers’ win, as a member of a family that bleeds black and gold. I am a PA girl, remember…)

😉

As you’ll see from the new button in my sidebar, I’ve joined Bust’s Girl Wide Web. Because all the cool kids are doing it.

😉

I had to come back and post this…

I’m very, very excited about the new Aaron Sorkin project in the works.

(Since the time of that posting, the show’s name has changed to Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Or perhaps the whole name is still up in the air)

Basically, it’s a behind-the-scenes at an SNL-type show. I expect it to have a Sports Night type vibe, which you should all know I think is a good thing. 🙂

Matthew Perry is set to star.

Here’s a post that reports the cast so far.

So yay for Aaron Sorkin and Tommy Schlamme! (BTW…Schlamme directed So I Married an Axe Murderer! Ha!)

🙂

I just took this quiz:

Which told me that my personality type is emo kid.

You are the Emo Kid, best described as a quiet pussy! You tend to be an intuitive rather than a logical thinker, meaning you rely more on your feelings than your thoughts. Not only that, but you are introverted, gentle, and rather humble. You embody all the traits of the perfect emo kid. You are a push-over, an emotional thinker, gentle to the extent of absurdity, and so humble that it even makes Jesus puke. (And Jesus almost never pukes, being immortal and not requiring an act of puke to dispell toxins from his corporeal manifestation.) If you write poetry, you no doubt write angsty, syrupy lines about depression, sadness, and other such redundant states of emo-being that go something like this:

life is a spike / upon which i have impaled mysefl / fuck you dad

So, your personality is defective because you are too gentle, rather underconfident in yourself, decidely lacking in any rational thought, and also a bit too inhibited. Plus, your poetry really upsets your father.

I probably made you cry, didn’t I? Fucking Emo Kid.

To put it less negatively:

1. You are more INTUITIVE than rational.
2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted.
3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.
4. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant.

Compatibility:

Your exact opposite is the Smartass.

Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Hippie, the Televangelist, and the Starving Artist.

Take the quiz

(seen first at warm wine)

So, old Phil saw his shadow today�if it�s six more weeks of the kind of winter we�ve been having, well, I can�t complain too much. In fact, even if it snows like crazy for the next two months, I can�t complain too much. For me, the worst part of winter is definitely the dark. I went looking for the story in the paper I used to work for, and they STILL don�t have complete stories posted on the web page. (As in, they were holding out on this when I worked there. Seven years ago.)

Here�s the Punxsutawney Spirit (cute groundhog graphic!)

And while I�m at it, Phil�s got his own website.

So there ya go.

I had a list of other things I wanted to blog, but I left it in the car. Let’s see how I do from memory.

First, it was 80s Day at the school where I subbed today. I saw lots of neon, legwarmers, colored tights and side ponytails. Oh, and cut-up sweatshirts ala Flashdance.

I don’t remember ever really wearing legwarmers, but I DO remember slouch socks. Doubled for the two-color effect. And worn outside the pegged jeans. 🙂

OH…and I had a kid in class today that I taught as a 7th grader when I student taught in Buffalo. I wouldn’t have remembered him, but he remembered me! He said, “I don’t remember my teacher’s name, but he was that old guy who was really mean.” (the kid was a freshman, which means he still had this teacher, um, last year. I sure hope they remember my name a year later!)

Finally, I added a couple of blogs to my Buffalo Blogroll. Check out jennimi and warm wine. And if you are a Buffalo blogger that I don’t have blogrolled, please leave me a comment or send me an email with a link! 🙂

Show my other little blog some love, eh? 🙂

The Places I Go

Busy, busy. Worked today (yay!). Nothing much of interest to report there. I finished Sexy by Joyce Carol Oates, which was not nearly as good as Big Mouth and Ugly Girl…look for a full review later. I also did a bunch of journaling…there’s a post in there somewhere. I’ll get back to you.

For some reason I can’t figure out, my wireless mouse is not working. 🙁

I’m kinda bummed out about Arrested Development, but looking forward to the party.

I’m much more bummed about this than about the West Wing. WW had a great run. Two fantastic seasons, two good seasons, two mediocre seasons with some bright shining moments…and this last one, which I admit to not seeing much of. It’s time. And I will have the brilliance to cherish forever on DVD. I’ve heard speculation that Sam (Rob Lowe) may return to take Leo’s place on the Santos ticket. I would *love* that. Sam Seaborn was a fantastic character who never reached his full potential on the show (because of RL’s ego, perhaps?), and I would love to see him return for the end. It’ll be horribly sad to watch the cast say goodbye to John Spencer on screen. 🙁

Rand and I have been watching Scrubs (season 1), and I’m loving it even more than I did the first time. Actually, there are quite a few episodes I missed. Zach is so adorable. And John C. McGinley is brilliant. Has he been nominated for an Emmy? He totally deserves one. (answer…NO! that’s just wrong.)

Ok, I should get ready for my classes now…more later, perhaps!

Wanna know why?

Because this afternoon, I heard…wait for it…

High Enough

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that hit power ballad from supergroup Damn Yankees (not to be confused by the successful Broadway musical).

What I find so amazing is that I can hear a song that I haven’t heard in, oh, at least 15 years and still remember EVERY WORD. Why hasn’t anyone figured out a way to harness this power for good? And so, I will retain the lyrics to bad 80s pop and early 90s power ballads and sing them at the top of my lungs (well, when I’m in the car alone, I will…). 😉