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Sunday, March 14, 2010
The Time Traveler's Wife
The art of patience is one that I have never managed to master with much grace. My millennial nature pushes me to seek the instant gratification sort of endeavors. Niffenegger's, The Time Traveler's Wife, rakes me over the coals of frustration for a character who spends a lifetime forever playing the waiting game. The author's treatment of time travel is unlike any I've ever read - cerebral sci-fi. My analytical self itched to plot the chronology of Henry's jaunts through the timeline of his life. But it's Clare and Henry's love story that pulses through this haunting tale.....and the theme of waiting....it leads me to wonder what Niffenegger is trying to say ever waiting Clare? Is she a woman to be admired for her strength and absolute belief of her love for Henry? Or is she a sad creature for not having the strength to move away from the single source of chaos in her life? This jury is still out.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
La vie en rose

Every moment of my experience in Paris was surreal - the city, the sights, the food, the company. Perhaps it was the effects of jet lag, but every instance was filled me with wonder, excitement, thrill, and gratitude. Being amongst buildings that existed for hundreds of years, streets that were once trod by characters vivid in only history books - it reminds me that my existence was a tiny speck in the continuum of time and universal life......but in a really good way.......I was happy to know that in another hundred years Paris will still exist for someone else to be in awe of. It's easy see how the city would inspire a la vie en rose sort of life.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Wall Street and Haiti
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
D23
Tomorrow is the official opening of D23 Expo. Held at the Anaheim Convention Center, this event promises to be a heaven (and even haven) for the eclectic lot of "Disney affinity guests".
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Just plain funny
My friend D sent me a funny list last night. This list particularly tickled my funny bone. I had to share. It is especially entertaining after a few glasses of wine....
1. While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart.
2. The letters T and G are very close to each other on a keyboard. This recently became all too apparent to me and consequently I will never be ending a work email with the phrase "Regards" again.
3. Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the "people you may know" feature on facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not to be friends with?
4. I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
5.Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or faq's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.
6. There is a great need for sarcasm font.
7. I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it.
8. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
9. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I'm trying to finish a text.
10. A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.
11. Lol has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say
12. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
13. Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".
14. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?
15. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!
16. Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using 'as in' examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss's last name to an attorney and said "Yes that's G as in...(10 second lapse)..ummm...Goonies"
17. I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.
18. Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if I do!
19. Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from, this shouldn't be a problem....
20. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.
21. There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
22. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
23. "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever.
24. I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren't watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'
25. I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.
26. It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.
27. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
28. I think that if, years down the road when I’m trying to have a kid, I find out that I’m sterile, most of my disappointment will stem from the fact that I was not aware of my condition in college.
29. The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words, someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think about it, and then estimated that there must be at least four people eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by myself. There’s nothing like being made to feel like a fat bastard before dinner.
30. My 4 year old son asked me in the car the other day, "Dad what would happen if you ran over a ninja?" How the hell do I respond to that?
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Something personal
The entire country is up in arms about President Obama's health care reform. Everywhere you turn someone is giving their two cents on the matter. Most of them don't even have the facts - because the facts are not all available.
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