Glee!

It's official, Glee has eaten my brain. I've been a viewer since the beginning but resisted getting into yet another fandom...and yet...I give up! I am powerless in the face of this kind of awesomeness:



So I've pretty much resigned my weekend to scouring LJ and Tumblr for awesome/lolarious Glee-related things and thinking about how much of a dreamboat Darren Criss is (because apparently I'm from the '50s like that). Especially as Harry Potter:





(Why haven't I seen this before this week, I don't know. Travesty!)



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Six Feet Under: "You can't take a picture of this, it's already gone."

Even though I knew what was going to happen, I still ended up a snooty, blotchy, puffy-eyed mess watching the Six Feet Under series finale. Man, Lauren Ambrose is a screen-crying champ! But I think the thing that pushed me over was old!David seeing dead!Keith as he was in his prime and David realizing he was going to die soon. I don't know why, but that really got the water works going.

And if you haven't watched Six Feet Under, I recommend it.



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Have some high school photos of me!

I was sorting through a ream of family photos for a thing I'm doing. There are many "gems", of course, but here are just two for the moment. They are from my high school years, so about 10-ish years ago judging by the fashions I'm sporting.


Here I embody everything late-late '90s.



Pedal pushers: check

Strappy, clunky sandals: check

Ridiculously short t-shirt: check

Pastel 3/4 cardigan: check

Flippy "Rachel from 'Friends'" 'do: check

(Sadly, you can't see my expertly color-coordinated finger nails in this one.)




Why do I look like a drunk dumbass in this photo??

ENJOY.



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Things Pissing Me Off Today: A List In No Particular Order

1. Why were you broken, gas pump credit card reader--WHYYYYYYYY??

2. 20 mins. to get from the highway off-ramp to Panera near the mall less than a mile away. SHENANIGANS!

3. AND THEN PANERA DOESN'T EVEN HAVE ANY SOURDOUGH LOAVES LEFT WHEN I GET THERE--WHATFUCKETH?!?!

4. All of the winter storms lately have come through during the morning commute. EXPLAIN, PLEASE.

AND NOW FOR A HAPPY-MAKING THING:





Have a nice night!



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Things wot I learned from this week's "Boardwalk Empire":

#1 Apparently dousing your chooch with a Lysol mixture after sex constituted a birth control method in 1920. I'd like to know if that actually worked.

#2 Agent Van Alden, just when I can't think you could possibly get wound any tighter, you start in with the self-flagellation over your "impure thoughts"--literally. I feel sorry for your wife. And also Mrs. Schroeder's (jail bait-y) picture.

If you haven't started watching this show, why the eff not?! Also: you should start watching this show.




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Knee-high by the 4th of July

My dad recently pointed out to my mother and me that, in the midst of our patio furniture--our rarely used patio furniture--there was what appeared to be a stalk of corn growing out of the seams of the two concrete slabs that comprise the patio. Wha-huh?! Why yes, that is a stalk of corn, and yes, it is growing up out of our patio. I knew the weed and general vegetation situation wasn't exactly, well, under control at all, but this is just too random not to share.



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Alright brain, it's just you and me...

On the way home from work today, I listened to an interview on NPR with Casey Affleck about the new movie he stars in: The Killer Inside Me. It's about this, you know, serial killer and stuff. This is what my brain kept jumping to:



Thanks, TV!

Since my computer at work up and died on me on Monday, they reformatted the hard drive yesterday, which essentially puts the computer back to factory settings. This was all fine--not fun having to re-map the network drives I work off of and manually adding each and every stinkin' printer on the network to my directory, but whatevs--until I discovered that it had reverted to Internet Explorer 6. GAAAAAAHHH!! So effing slow and buggy and just heinous! Shoot me, 2004. Jeebus! Naturally, I didn't have administrator access to update it to the newest version that doesn't completely blow. I don't know how I lived for so long without tabbed browsing, I really don't.



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