One of my favorite people is leaving Santa Cruz soon and that makes me a sad panda. I think he’s leaving this weekend. I guess I should ask him. Bye favorite person! San Francisco will welcome you with drunken arms. I’ll see you on the other side.

That was pretty dramatic. Just kidding, I’ll see you on this side. But I will miss you.

Also happening this weekend is dinner with TBU’s dad in Los Gatos. Otherwise known as Dr. TBU MBA Sr. He’s all about his acronyms. He’s been trying to convince TBU to get his real estate license for some reason. TBU works in real estate and knows the industry very well, we both shudder at the thought of being realtors. No way. But somehow Dr. TBU MBA Sr. always brings it up. We think he’s trying to hint that he wants to invest in real estate with TBU. Who knows. Interestingly enough we’ve both been making arrangements to get our MBA and Dr. TBU MBA Sr. (WHO HAS AN MBA!) isn’t at all excited about it. He’d rather TBU be a realtor than have an MBA. I don’t get it either.

Oh yeah and Dr. TBU MBA Sr. has one slightly lazy eye. I find that a slightly lazy eye is harder to deal with than a completely lazy eye. When it’s an obvious lazy eye you know which one is good and just focus on it. But I’ve known this man for almost 5 years and I still don’t know which eye to look at. I know one of them is lazy but I couldn’t tell you which. I want to know, but I also don’t want to stare at him to figure it out. It’s a vicious cycle. I usually deal with it by ordering a couple glasses of wine and trying not to obsess about it.

I have orientation for work tomorrow and that’s all I’m going to say about that because…yawn.

[tags]lazy eye, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, MBA, Los Gatos, realtor, real estate[/tags]

I am tired today. I didn’t go to bed til early this morning because I watched this. It’s Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story by Todd Haynes. Before you dismiss it you should know that it’s made entirely with dolls as the characters. If that doesn’t make you want to see it you should know that it is absolutely amazing. The voice actors are perfect, after a few minutes you completely forget that you are watching dolls. Karen Carpenter is not my cup of tea but ultimately it is a well told story. Sure, there is some social commentary but it’s not heavy handed. There are a couple rough spots but that’s just because you are watching a digitally compressed file of a 19 year old film. It’s only 43 minutes and you will be a better person for it. Hurry though, because Richard Carpenter and Mattel have sent Haynes cease and desist orders and YouTube won’t play it. Who knows how long Google will keep it up. In case you don’t know, Todd Haynes started out as an experimental filmmaker and later directed Safe and Far From Heaven. He is one of the reasons I focused on experimental film in film school. Superstar is easily accessible though, so don’t get all pre-judgemental mmmmk?

In other goings on I am totally obsessed with 10,000Reasons. Look for me, I’m #’s 1377, 1382, 1647, 1876, 1879 and 1892. Those numbers may not be exact because some are deleted or moved. Add your own and tell me what number you are! If I offended anyone, you should get over it so we can still be friends, because that’s what people do. But saying women are the reason the world is doomed is just stupid (#1884), so let’s all send Justin an email at punk_rocks18@hotmail.com. Yep that’s right, Justin at punk_rocks18@hotmail.com.**

**Update: Justin got taken down. Maybe we’re not doomed after all.

I am excited to tell you that Plan B ( emergency contraception, the morning after pill ) has been approved by the FDA to be available over the counter to people who are 18 and up. That’s great news. And thanks to A. for letting me know and giving me the link.

Question: At what point does a pimple become a boil?

I know no one wants to hear about other people’s dreams so I won’t go into detail. All I’ll say is that Dave Navarro and I are friends and he’s picking me up on Sunday for yoga.

Remember this post where I said I’d get a definition for dudebrah up on UrbanDictionary.com? Well I did finally but they kept rejecting it (seeing what was approved, I was confused). So I kept submitting it. They kept rejecting it, I even became an editor so I could just approve it myself. Then it was suddenly accepted three times. And that’s the story of dudebrah on UrbanDictionary.com and why it has three entries by me.

Whoa, let’s all take a deep breath and relax after all that information.

[tags]10000 Reasons, Dave Navarro, yoga, Urban Dictionary, dudebrah, Plan B, emergency contraception, morning after pill, Karen Carpenter, Todd Haynes, Superstar, experimental film, YouTube, Google Video[/tags]

So last night at 2am (I guess that’s this morning actually) I realized that clicking the “previous post” button took you to an error page.  I freaked the fuck out.  Really.  I had no clue how to fix it and I was ready to give up blogging forever.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and all.

I enlisted TBU and emailed a friend.  Then in moment of clarity I thought, hey, what if I just do this?  And this just happened to work.  Hazzah! So friends and foes, rejoice, now you can  see my previous entries without having to scan the archives.

Also, what do we think about adding images to the site?  I kinda like the idea, it will be a bit of a challenge for me and, hopefully, interesting for you.  We’ll see.

In the past week I learned two things that I thought I already knew.

1. I have been spelling definitely wrong for as long as it’s been in my vocabulary.  I was spelling it definately.  I figure it’s gone unnoticed for a couple reasons.  One being that I talk to friends through AIM a lot and have a tendency to say things like mos def instead of most definitely.  And who cares how you spell things on AIM anyway, right?  The second reason is Microsoft and their penchant for auto correcting everything in sight.  Even when I want to keep a mistake in for an example or whatever, it takes me 15 minutes to figure out how to stop the damn thing from correcting it.  Microsoft made me dumb and that’s my final answer.

2. Yesterday I learned that an apostrophe can signify possession.  I think that was something I was supposed to pick up in elementary school or at least by 8th grade HONORS English.  When I said we’d be stopping by a friends house I was embarassing myself.  TBU had to show me the error of my ways.  While we’re here, let’s take a look at the word apostrophe, I think it’s a pretty sexy word.  With it’s obvious Greek roots, that ph gets me every time.  The way it rolls of the tongue, it’s so foreign yet familiar.  Apostrophe, yes tell me more.  Say it again, apostrophe.  It could have a double meaning as some sort of sex act involving the mouth.  I’ll leave the rest to your imagination.

At least I don’t say shit like supposably.  If you do, may the wrath of god have no mercy on you.  There is a special place in hell for your kind.