really?!

is this really my job?? because all i do all day is horde books. i just went to print something, and on my way found two Elie Wiesel books that i've never read, and this Jerry Seinfeld book. (as z aptly pointed out, both jews.) word on the street is that there is a lot more seinfeld on the 25th floor... may need to make a trip up later. but for real - wow. and i already found Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on tape (ok, on CD) this morning! great success!

start making sense.

not sure if you caught david byrne on the colbert report two nights ago, but i thought it was pretty great. (and i love him.)

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gobias a movie.

thanks to z, more news about the maybe-they-will, maybe-they-won't arrested development movie! check it out, and pray to the movie gods (and ron howard) to greenlight this definitely-will-be-amazing movie!!!

my sister rules.

as you may or may not know, my sister is a coxswain on the U of M rowing team. (yea, she's pretty awesome.) she just got back from spring training in tampa, and i wanted to share this article with you about their success!

(p.s. - this is not a picture of her, but i'll post one when i get it!)

words of wisdom.

watch through til the end to catch all the great cameos. my favorite is danny devito and rhea perlman.

dreams do come true.

one set of take shelves at my office. it's so tall i can't even begin to get to all the shelves, and books are stacked at least two rows deep. i don't ever want to leave.

few things from the week.

where i want to be for the weekend.

who i saw on wednesday night @ 9th & 46th.

where i work now. (!!!)

P.S. If you still care about Lost (which I hope you do, despite the complete out-of-control-ness thus far of in the season), read this. Hopefully it helps. Have a great weekend, all!

professor hilarity, take 2.

hopefully you caught my post a few weeks ago, where i began my "professor quotes" section. here we go again, with more gems from the master of organizational behavior.

but before i even get into what he said last night, let's discuss his clothes. i've seen him twice now, and both times he has worn really fancy looking suits with this stand-up type collar. his shirts have the same short little, standy-uppy type collar. what the heck?! where does one even purchase a suit like this?? also, he never wears a tie, but always has a little hankie, poofie thing hanging out of his pocket. he lives in italy usually, so maybe i can blame it on that?
anyhow:

• [again, about the overhead projector] "Can this light be turned off? Damn. I already used my near-death experience joke last time."
• "Let's talk about tooting your own horn."
• "In that type of role you have consultants working for you, if you're willing to tap them."
  

clear out, i'm workin' with pills up here!

cvs is on my shitlist. i decided to fill my new prescription there, since the duane reade across the street is officially run by morons. i dropped of my prescription yesterday afternoon, everything went smoothly. super. but, when i went to pick it up this morning - crisis. allegedly, there was a "problem" with my insurance. i was (rudely) asked to wait while they figured it out. i proceeded to wait close to an hour for them to "sort this out". i stood around with my best "i am extremely pissed off" face on, but that didn't seem to incite them to move faster. i was told repeatedly that "she is on the phone with your insurance" but i could not find a single pharmacist who was on the phone. the only time they did pick up the phone was when someone called to ask about a prescription. they were very quick to answer those calls. so quick that i thought about going home and calling them to bitch about the issue instead of just standing there. anyhow, after waiting around for a million years while every other tom, dick and harry was helped before me, i was graciously handed my prescription. but - problem #1: it was much more expensive than it normally is. problem #2: my Rx is written to get 3 months at a time, but i was only handed a 1 month supply. blerg. i wanted to book it and figure it out later. as i turn to leave, the pharmacist says to me "Thank you," in that tone that really means "Please thank me for my brilliant work with pills." I did not. As I'm walking away, she continues to shout "Thank you" at my back.

Through all of that, here's the best thing I heard while waiting around the pharmacy counter -
Pharmacist Lady #1 to Pharmacist Lady #2: "What's half of a half?"

Do not, I repeat, do NOT go to the CVS pharmacy at 86th and Broadway.

solution.

instead of going the old boring route to bookshelves, i (well, z) found a cooler solution. if you recall, i have had a slight book overload as of late (which is due to a disease called "Must Buy More Books Than I Have Time To Ever Read"), and this is due to only get worse in the very near future. hoorah for floating shelves! can you figure out the secret?

4 Gregs!

if you caught my valumtime's day special here, then you are familiar with teen girl squad. (if not, catch up here, and here.)

but NOW, there is 4 Gregs! the teen girl squad counterpart cartoon - complete with d n' d greg, sci-fi greg, open source greg, and japanese culture greg. just as clueless and socially awkward as the tgs, but now in boy form! watch the first ep, as they cautiously dare to spend a night in mainstream social territory at the high school football game.

316.

ohhh lost. if you've been enjoying the ridiculous lost untangled videos, you can see the new one here. as far as i can tell, it diverges a bit more from the actual story than the previous videos, but i still think it's hilarious.



also, the doc jensen article this week has some pretty great insights about the characters, including something really interesting about jack's "grandpa ray". after initially seeing that part of this week's episode, i was annoyed that any time was spent on it, since it seemed stupid and irrelevant. but after reading this, it seems potentially important. and insane. (but that's lost for ya.) also, some good speculations on ben's motivations, why he was all bloody and freakin' out, and where the hell is aaron. it didn't mention anything too interesting about ben's bible story time, or caravaggio's doubting thomas painting. since you know i love me some italian renaissance art, i am going to investigate into that one.

best lines of the episode:
jack: how can you read??
ben: my mother taught me.

oh no!

ahhh! angela kinsey from the office is apparently separating from her husband, warren lieberstein! the horror!! (i'm mostly serious. it's only a minute bit in jest, since you know i love the jest.) mostly i am sad because they just had a cute kid - isabel - in May of last year. sad for Isabel... maybe angela really IS married to dwight/rainn, and warren found out?! the way to find out would be to check if isabel has a huge head, a bad haircut, goofy glasses and loves beets.

what time is it?? it's valumtimes!

i know valentine's day is already over, and i don't even really care about it to begin with. but i love this video so much, so i wanted to post it for all of you to enjoy. enjoy!

new and improved!

at a recent shabbat meal, E (yes, you!) mentioned a certain TEFILLIN BARBIE. considering that i had every barbie under the sun as a child (and often cut their hair, which once led me to give myself a very crappy haircut at the age of 5), i am shocked and appalled that i was not aware of this! if you were wondering what i want for my birthday in... 9 months... this would be it! thank you in advance.

p.s. - question. why is barbie covering her hair and wearing tefillin? that confuses me. but i guess it happens somewhere...
p.p.s - if you click on the link above, be sure to at least read the caption of the picture at the very bottom. hi-lar-ious.