Month: May 2004

  • I finally got around to seeing Girl with a Pearl Earring tonight with Kathleen and a friend. I wasn’t sure what to expect. On one hand, Ebert loved it and I love me some Colin Firth. On the other hand, Scarlett Johansson has been annoying the crap out of me lately. Luckily my Mr. Darcy…

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  • Training Update

    Training UpdateLast night I had a session with a new personal trainer, Andy. He’d been recommended to me by a friend at the gym as somebody who specialized in running. I have to say, he was a bit of a spunk. (For the Yanks, that means he was a hottie.) Thick as two planks, though.…

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  • RIP Father Joyce

    Rest in peace, Father Joyce. I never met the man but his legend (and name) were everywhere in college.

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  • So far I’ve got two sponsors lined up for the 40 Hour Famine. Come on, people! You know you want to see me delirious with hunger. (Snookums is still laughing at my Mother’s response when I told her about the event: “Forty hours? Is that all? You should have to go for seventy-two!” Me: “MOM!”)

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  • 10000th comment!

    Crap. We just reached a major milestone here at w-g and I didn’t even realize. The 10,000th comment was posted on Friday! (It was the one where I crowed about my restaurant booking.) That blows my mind. NOTE: That’s 10,000 in terms of ID numbers in the database. I have had to delete some comments…

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  • BB4 starts!

    Big Brother 4 started last night and at last the big secret is revealed: The winner will take home a million bucks! I was pretty satisfied with that revelation (though I would’ve loved it if the “monkey in the house” rumor had been true). The other big reality shows have all gone to a million,…

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  • Kate Beckinsale?

    Wait, that’s Kate Beckinsale in Van Helsing? Whoa, I had no idea. Seriously, movie promoters, you dropped the ball on this one. I haven’t been hiding from the advertising; I see it on websites, bus stops, and TV commercials. Snookums even asked me last week: “Is that Kate Beckinsale on there?” Me: “No way. It…

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  • Red Cross

    My friend Leigh-Anne sent me an interesting e-mail the other day. She works for the American Red Cross and she wanted to pick my brains for a little market research. She writes: “We are putting together a commemorative knitting kit based on our World War era “Knit Your Bit” campaign which enabled civilian volunteers to…

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  • We had a lovely dinner party last night with Andrew and Kathleen and Major and Steph. The only problem – other than my shifting Rodd’s chocolate pie in the fridge and causing it to become lopsided – was when Kathleen suddenly began sneezing and coughing ten minutes into the evening. The cause? A previously unknown…

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  • Galactic Heroes

    I don’t have any Star Wars figures other than a set of Phantom Menace Beanie Babies I found in Chicago a few years back, but if these Galactic Heroes turn out as cute as they look, I want them all.

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