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I’m tired. It’s 97 outside, with a heat index of 103 and I just got home after catching two games. But I stumbled across this last night, to me one of the funniest bits on The Office:

Hi everyone. I’m staying classy in San Diego for work, and had a chance to jump online while some things are printing. This is being typed from my hotel room, where the TV is on and I’m too lazy to get up and change the channel. So I’ve been seeing the end of the Miss Teen USA pageant. The final 5 contestants are:

Miss South Carolina (ugly dress, dumb girl)

Miss Colorado (fake boobs)

Miss West Virginia (ugly dress but well spoken)

Miss North Carolina (pretty dress, ugly girl)

Miss New Jersey (has caps on her teeth so huge, I want to feed her a carrot and slap a saddle on her)

During the serious question portion, Miss South Carolina was asked why so many US teens can not point out the United States on a map. And she said:

“Um. Because I feel that many U.S. Americans are, um. illiterate with maps. And that the problem has affected those in Iraq and the Asians, and we have to help them.”

America’s future, ladies and gentlemen. And Miss Colorado and her fake boobs won!

I’m going to finish working, then go to bed. Gotta be awake in a few hours. When I return, I’ll post the next 5 book reviews.

From Entertainment Earth (via Rebel Scum)

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/33727

eh.

Before I get into the meat of the post, Fred has has his second application of Frontline and is still covered in fleas and flea bites. Holly has fleas but does not seem to be having trouble with flea bites - whereas Fred is covered in little scabs. I woke up this morning with 4 new bites. My legs and arms look like a constellation map. OH MY GOD someone please help.

OK - I am now on my 30th book! Since I did not want to do one super long post discussing all of the books at once, I thought I’d break it up into 6 posts of 5. Because that’s guaranteed subject matter for 6 posts.

1. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. A co-worker got me this book for Christmas and I tore into it. It was great, although I thought it could have been about 100 pages shorter. You eventually get to a place where you scream, “JUST FIND HIM, ALREADY!” But aside from that, it was a great book - exciting, full of historical facts and mystery.

2. A Separate Peace by John Knowles. My boss (at the time) got my this for Christmas as well. It was pretty enjoyable, but I did not fawn over it like a lot of other people said they had.

3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. This was reread for book club, and I still love it. Virtually everyone else in book club either read it and hated it, started to read it but hated it so they stopped, or did not read it at all. It’s definitely not a book for everyone, but I fall in love with the language and prose every time.

4. Gutted: Down to the Studs in My House, My Marriage, My Life by Lawrence LaRose. Mom got this for Erik for Christmas since it deals with the stress of remodeling a house. I went ahead and read it while he was reading something else. Not bad - I think the Fitzes would especially enjoy reading it now.

5. To Hate Like This is to be Happy Forever by Will Blythe. Jamsky lent me this wonderfully biased book about the UNC-Duke rivalry. The author is an obsessive Tarheel fan and perfectly captures the illogical obsession of Tarheel fans while documenting the 2004-2005 season in which the Tarheels won the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championships.

More later - might even finish book 30 tonight!

You know what they say, when you don’t have anything else to talk about, talk about the weather.

From weather.com.

It’s been a really, really long time since I last posted. Sorry about that. I’ll try not to do it again. Here’s what I’ve been doing in my blog absence:

• Finding juuust the right medicine for my depression (Note: Found it!)
• Gained ten pounds from one medicine
• Lost twenty pounds from another medicine
• Read a ton of books (remember how I read 25 books last year? As of today, I’m on book 29 for 2007 and will likely hit 50 by the end of the year)
• Got covered in flea bites since the cats had them again
• Got a new job! This is my last week at the old job!
• Baked some really good bread yesterday.

That’s about it. The new job is doing Convention Services planning and execution for another company in Charlotte. There’s some travel, but not a crazy amount - only about 20 - 25% of the time. I can’t wait!

More posts later - I promise!