In other news of awesomeness...
Heather and I plan on dominating the literary dessert competition at Denise's MFA/MA party this Saturday. Why? Because our dessert is quite the awesome.
Spent yesterday afternoon at her apartment making parts. No, I can't tell you what it is or what those parts are. And we aren't finished yet. Brilliance comes in stages. Don't rush our collective creative genius.
But really, if you think, hmmm what would be the awesomest thing they could do?, then you'll come up with it. That tiara will be ours.
Photos will be posted after Saturday. Why not now? Because there are spies everywhere.
And yes, it's possible that we're over-selling it. And if we're the only ones amused by ourselves, that's okay, too. I mean, there will be a riot, of course, but other than that, it'll be okay.
(PS-Jenny, don't bother looking for hidden clues in here about what we're doing. There aren't any. Mwah-hah-hah!)
But I want an oompa-loompa *now*, daddy!
The new
Jeanette Winterson book,
The Stone Gods, was just published yesterday. In the UK. Not here. No telling how long it'll be before it's here. But it's long enough that Amazon doesn't even have it in their system to tell me when. And they have things in there way before they're released.
So I went to amazon.co.uk and ordered it there. The first British hardcover edition. Being mailed to me right now. Woo!
If you're happy and you know it clap your hands...
Oh honey, no... (link to Adrianne Curry on Perez)It's like she thought out the very beginning of the idea (good, yes, "separate but equal" is bad) and then forgot to follow through with the rest of her argument wherein she would've found the parts that make her just ignorant and simple.
You know, things that have to do with the history of power structures, race relations, freedom of speech, the real problems of racism that remain insidious in the US, the fact that having a "Black History Month"
is different than having a "White History Month," oh and the difference between nationality and race...
I believe the colloquial term is 'moron,' no? Or perhaps I missed the box on the form labeled "Aussie! Aussie Aussie!"
Somebody get me a TimTam.
off in my own little world
The
urban dictionary word of the day today is
drafterglow.
I saw that and went, that must be the flush of happiness one gets after finishing writing a draft of a piece.
In fact, it has to do with the football draft.
I promise you, never for even half a second did football come to mind.
the Clutter Bunny*
I love it when things are as easy as I feel they should be.
A few weeks ago, in a fit of decluttering, I accidentally threw out the filter to my little Dirt Devil hand vac. I must have cleaned out the filter and forgotten to put it back in, so when I came across it again, I had the following conversation with myself:
"How did I end up with a second filter? Hmmm, maybe I should keep it, in case something happens to the first one? NO. I keep too much crap for "just in case" and I don't need it. I'm going to throw it out."
No, it did not occur to me that this was the first filter. Nevermind the fact that how the hell would I have acquired a second, oddly-shaped, specific to a 4-yr-old model hand vac? (Doesn't it look like a head? I feel like I'm feeding my dust to this guy's face.) So out the "second" filter went. Of course I only realized what had happened three bags of trash down the chute later.
So just now I went online to dirtdevil.com, clicked on my model (which was handily printed on the bottom of the appliance), clicked on "buy parts and accessories," looked at a photo of the filter I needed to make sure it was the right one, and bibbity-bobbity-boo, I have another filter coming to me right now.
I would like to thank the fine folks at Dirt Devil for letting this whole process take two seconds. As it should.
*My mom decided that she didn't like the term "pack rat" since, ew, who wants to be a rat?, and so we became "clutter bunnies," a far nicer name.
from Jenny's party last night
