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Twilight Saga
My cousin Jenny IMed me yesterday. “Do you know anything about twilight?” she said. “Uh… you mean that gas they give you at the dentist?” I guessed. “No! It’s a series of books about teenage girls in love with sexy teenage vampires. I’m obsessed.” Sounds very Buffy, right? She raved about it for ten minutes. Then she went for the clincher: “They’re coming out with a movie on the first book in December and CEDRIC DIGGORY is playing the vampire!” Hoo-yah, sign me up! I went out and got the first book at lunchtime, and I’m already a hundred pages in. Don’t be put off by the fact that it’s in the “Young Adult” section; they’re quite thick books and they’re very well-written. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go read my book and SQUEEEE some more…

If there are any American expats out there who need to register to vote or request a postal ballot, get yourself over to VoteFromAbroad.org. You answer some questions, print out a form, and mail it off. Easy peasy! (And since people keep asking me, yes, dual citizens get to vote in both countries.)

When it rains, it pours. I left my umbrella on the train Tuesday morning, so I quickly went to buy another one. It was blue and pretty and it kept me dry for 48 hours. Then the wind blew it inside out and broke two of its ribs. Now I need another umbrella. Can somebody in Sydney point me to an umbrella that won’t break but is small enough to carry every day? (I refuse to carry a golf umbrella, and I give dirty looks to everyone who does.)

I should be above this… but I’m not. Bad Pictures of John McCain. Come on, he totally gurns!

I saw it on the SMH site first, but it wasn’t until Kevin confirmed it that I really believed: Obama has won the nomination. FANTASTIC NEWS on an otherwise crappy day!

Somehow I always end up being the person people send their “weird food” links to. My co-worker just alerted me to the existence of bacon in a can. While I do enjoy bacon… this. is. horrifying.

iPhone speculation has hit a fever pitch. People are talking about mysterious shipments of oddly labelled shipping containers, the increase in Steve Job’s airline expenditures, the leaked AT&T employee memos, etc. It’s pretty amazing that still nobody’s got an actual photo of the actual device. Only six days to go…

To: Whoever it is on the office network sharing the iTunes library with the “150 Greatest Hits of the 90’s” Album
From: Kris

I love you.

White people like grammar. True! Every time I heard somebody misuse “begs the question” my head explodes.