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I just saw the trailer for the remake of King Kong. Looks pretty dang spiffy.

– Love Actually. Odd little movie, but I liked it - would have tweaked the ending a bit, but that seems to be the case with most movies I see anymore. :)

– Adaptation. Just couldn’t even get into it at all - gave up after about 15 minutes.

– Bridget Jones’ Diary. Very cute and fun, couldn’t help but cringe in recognition at her misfortunes…

From Yahoo weather about an hour or so ago:
High: 89
Low: 67
Currently: 90

Anyone else see the slight problem?

Personally, I don’t think it got that hot today, cause the house was fine - which means I’ve got the AC set way too low when it IS working…

Just finished watching Queer Eye & the family w/ quints. That is the sweetest show and it is so NOT FAIR they’re not straight. Also, , they actually had a laundry folding board on it, you’re now completely too hip for me.

On completely ureleated news, tags have gone live on LJ. Your client probably doesn’t have a field for them yet…

Wish I’d found this at midnight last night… (SFW)

Actress Anne Bancroft Dies at 73

Ladies, I think in her honor we should all go find some college gents in need of an education…

“Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we’ll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we’d do and become will never come to be — and that we’re ordinary.”
- Anne Bancroft, 2003 interview

Just finished watching Pretty Woman. Yup, total fairy tale, but dammit, we ALL deserve the fairy tale.

OK, for those of us that watched the Ep II/Clone Wars on TV this evening, what lesson did we learn?

Don’t fuck with the muppet.

The mp3 player on the PDA is sweet for riding metro.

Dedication ceremony at Mom’s office was very nice. Short and simple, and just plain nice. They planted a rose of Sharon out in the gardens & a there is a plaque with it, and I made Joanne promise that she’ll take pics if it blooms this season. First thing everyone asked was, “How is the dog?!”

Went over to the National Gallery afterwards and hit the Toulouse-Lautrec exhibit. Very good, and a nice way to spend the afternoon. (, it was different from the one we saw up in B’more.) Of course, I had to buy a book. I seem near incapable of going to an exhibit without getting a very heavy book to take home with me. Funny thing, the exhibit centered mainly around Toulouse-Lautrec, but did have other artists from the period as well. They tag the walls with a symbol next to pieces that have a description in the audio tour. The symbol they used was nothing by HTL, but instead, a Steinlen cat.

I realized it’s been way too long since I have been up to the museums, so I sat down this evening and went through the list of exhibitions online and have made a list of what I want to see and when they close, so I’ve got some things to do over the weekends this summer! I need to re-up my membership with the Smithsonian…

Hoofing it all over town today was good exercise, and when I got home, I sacked out hard for a couple hours. I’m already sleepy again, so hopefully this means I won’t be up until 2 AM.

I soooo want to skip work tomorrow. Can’t, but I’d love to. Have 3.5 days in which to attempt to close all my calls so I don’t have anything sitting out there when I take off next week. If the new folks can pull their weight for those days, I may actually have a shot at getting that accomplished.

Well, now I know why I was soooo scattered and spacy today (well, more than normal) - I was working up to a full blown sinus headache… But I managed to shake it off long enough to get everything done that needed to get done when I got home (GO ME!), including exercise, even though my arms aren’t happy with me for the 60 pushups over the past 2 days. Now I’m just waiting for the Advil to kick in.

Good news: life insurance came through today. Feels like things are finally moving along now, and maybe eventually we’ll be able to say the estate is settled. In a fit of wild and reckless behavior, I funded my Roth for the year and have set my 401k to the max now that I have some cash in the bank to offset the lowered paycheck.

alerted me to this exhibit that is at the National Gallery through June 12: Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmarte. Sooo totally going to find the time to get over there for that. Thanks again for the heads up!

Holy crap - upcoming exhibitions - Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art - runs from July 3, 2005 to January 22, 2006. Another absolutely must see.

I should try and stay awake long enough to get the clothes out of the dryer, but I don’t think I am going to make it… Well, at least it’s all dark stuff, shouldn’t show the wrinkles too badly…

Can someone PLEASE explain to me how Family Guy made it back on the air? It didn’t get any funnier since they canceled it the first time…

Additionally, I have got to get the dog his summer haircut, or the air conditioning bills are going to send me to the poorhouse. I’m comfy - he’s roasting.

Oh, I got “Sideways” off Netflix. Turned it off about 30 minutes into it - it’s not a bad movie, I just quickly got to the point where I wanted to shoot both of the male leads in it.

And for the first time since I took my *ahem* unscheduled vacation back in March, not only do I have less than 20 calls assigned to me - I have less than 10 calls assigned to me! Yes, we finally seem to be getting into the summer slowdown.

Just finished the West Wing episode on the filibuster and all the letters home. (Yep, still on season 2…) In many ways, I absolutely hate that show, because it makes me want to go get a job on the Hill, at which I would last all of three days. (Please, PLEASE someone remind me that I help people every day, even if it isn’t in grand socially redeeming ways, and I may very well be enabling the next Enron somewhere along the way.)

I think it just bugs me sometime that I throw myself into my work, whatever it is, to the detriment of damn near everything around me, and yet none of it has ever had any true socially redeeming value whatsoever. One of those signs that I oh so truly need to get my ass to the point of not working for a living anymore…

And I can officially say Happy Cinco de Mayo now that I have cracked my Negra Modelo. I’m holding off on the tequila since I actually have to function tomorrow. My coworker admitted, she doesn’t know if it’s any good or not, but she got sucked in by the pretty bottle - which it really is pretty, not sure the photo does it justice. But the House of Chris does put together good packaging. :)

In other news - the lawyer that drew up the will finally responded to my lawyer!!!!!!! They were going to have a conference call this afternoon, and hopefully that means we’ll have the docs we need in short order and be able to get this damn will probated, administrators named, and things DONE!

Don’t start watching the Battlestar Galactica miniseries on a weeknight, especially if your sleep has been effed recently anyway - you will have completely whacked out dreams.

It was on SciFi last night, I got sucked in, but the commercials started bugging me, and the fact that I would miss something every time I had to leave the room, and I remembered my brother had brought over the DVD’s, so I popped it in. Only watched the first side of the first DVD, but the hair on my neck was standing on end. Freaky, creepy, show. You can bet I’ll be watching the rest of it this weekend, good sleep be damned.

Edit Or maybe not, since the damned DVD player doesn’t like the second DVD and won’t play it… Fuck.

Training today doesn’t suck as much as it did yesterday, but after lunch we’re supposed to go in and teach it ourselves. Now, out of 8 of us in there, only 2 have decent knowledge of the subject matter. This should be interesting.

Saw A Midsummer Nights Dream last night - loved the fairy constuming, hated the Athenian costuming. Acting wa sgood, but I wish the company would stop casting Noel True in everything they do.

I’m on call tonight from 6 to 8 and then tomorrow from 9 to 3. This doesn’t exactly leave much time for finding a pair of shoes. Shoe store *is* open til 9, so in theory I could book it out of the house at 8 and see if I could find anything. We shall see.

Also need to find some directions to the boat tomorrow night.

Saw Pirates of the Caribbean tonight. If you’re looking for fun, silly, escapist entertainment, I highly recommend it. :-D