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On a clear night, the sky has this medium blue glow that Crayola hasn't been able to copy yet. Everything is so still, and so peaceful and so quiet......it makes me think. My husband has been gone since March. He's in Iraq, sitting outside his barracks, looking at the same twilight that I see. I wonder if it makes him feel the same as it makes me feel. Living with his absence every day, day in and day out, month after interminable month, I have begun to understand solitude. I have begun to understand the quiet contemplation of autumn twilight. I have begun to understand what it is like to lose a part of yourself. I struggle with my feelings of loss, and helplessness and frustration and sorrow and search for a way to express them in words. I cannot. At this time in my life when I need them most, words fail me. All I know is that I miss him. And I want him to come home. 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What frustrates me generally is the value placed on billable hours as opposed to other worthy goals, like taking time to give back to the community, to mentor younger lawyers in the firms and to take marketing trips around the country to develop new clients. Although most law firms will pay for you to go across the country to seminars, meetings, etc. and try to develop business, you still have to meet your montly billable goals regardless of how much business your trip brings in. And while I'm on my rant, it also bothers me some little bit that some really good friends of mine, who are kick-ass lawyers won't make general partner -- not because they didn't bring in business (they did), and not because they lost cases (they didn't), and not because they're jerks (they rock, actually), but because they didn't bill enough godforsaken hours. I have a friend who didn't get a year-end bonus last year because he missed his billable goal by 20 hours. Give me a break! 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In more long-term news, my blog will soon be on the road, too! The fabulous folks at Wet Wired have offered to host my blog, and I have accepted. The move won't likely take place until early next week. I will make a formal announcement once I'm set up in my new digs. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: First Post STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 10/12/2003 03:39:10 PM ----- BODY: This is a test post to see if this is working correctly. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 63.246.167.157 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 10/12/2003 03:40:10 PM test ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Helen EMAIL: everydaystranger@hotmail.com IP: 194.237.142.7 URL: http://everydaystranger.mu.nu/ DATE: 10/13/2003 06:48:42 AM Get OUT! 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Wish there was some way to make it easier. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jenny EMAIL: jnkilpat@hotmail.com IP: 64.216.161.20 URL: DATE: 10/21/2003 09:40:34 AM I'm convinced every time I step into an elevator it will either plunge to the ground, or go through the ceiling. Two hundred stories or just two... I hate them. Flying I love, but Justin's my brother... go figure:) ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jenny EMAIL: jnkilpat@hotmail.com IP: 64.216.161.20 URL: DATE: 10/21/2003 09:40:41 AM I'm convinced every time I step into an elevator it will either plunge to the ground, or go through the ceiling. Two hundred stories or just two... I hate them. Flying I love, but Justin's my brother... go figure:) ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jenny EMAIL: jnkilpat@hotmail.com IP: 64.216.161.20 URL: DATE: 10/21/2003 09:40:59 AM I'm convinced every time I step into an elevator it will either plunge to the ground, or go through the ceiling. Two hundred stories or just two... I hate them. Flying I love, but Justin's my brother... go figure:) ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jenny EMAIL: jnkilpat@hotmail.com IP: 64.216.161.20 URL: DATE: 10/21/2003 09:41:32 AM I'm convinced every time I step into an elevator it will either plunge to the ground, or go through the ceiling. Two hundred stories or just two... I hate them. Flying I love, but Justin's my brother... go figure:) ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jenny EMAIL: jnkilpat@hotmail.com IP: 64.216.161.20 URL: DATE: 10/21/2003 09:43:51 AM Sorry about the multiple postings. That's what I get fot thinking my computer's locked up. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, Uh huh, Uh huh, rrrrradio STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 10/21/2003 09:08:01 AM ----- BODY: When I was driving back from Dallas on Sunday, I listened to npr, as I often do. I listened to one of my favorite npr shows This American Life. 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These aren't just dreams that are somewhat odd -- these are dreams that make therapists and counselors (not to mention friends and family members) step back and say, "Ooooooookay........." Needless to say, I had a weird dream last night, involving a trip on an Amtrak train, shopping for cute clothes, a paralegal at my office, extraterrestrials who live on Earth and being late a lot. I'm trying to figure out what causes these dreams. I've heard that people often have strange dreams when they eat close to bedtime. The last thing I ate last night was a slice of king cake, and I had it a good three hours before I went to bed. I'm trying to see if this dream has any "depper meaning" within the context of my life, and is my subconscious trying to tell me something. All I can figure is that before I went to bed, I was reading one of my first forays into Dean Koontz. 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And he comes off as being one of the most sympathetic characters on the show. The show consistently refuses to give easy answers to complicated problems and still manages to be entertaining. The complexity of the show is evidenced by the fact that Slate.com actually has a panel of psychiatrists who analyze each show the week after it airs. Their entries are interesting, but sometimes a mobster is just a mobster, as they say. Simply stated, don't call me tomorrow night. I have a date with a mobster. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: greyhairedstranger EMAIL: jkilpatrick@hot.rr.com IP: 24.243.176.93 URL: http://greyheadedstranger.blogspot.com DATE: 03/06/2004 01:13:04 PM I totally agree with your review. This is the only DVD TV series set that I would buy. Good luck on your date....I see the rumors now about the lawyer and the mobster.:) ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Toxic Avengers STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 03/09/2004 01:14:47 PM ----- BODY: When I was growing up in Dallas, I used to make the rounds with my mom at Christmas time to see the lights on the houses. It is impossible to do anything with my mother without having her give a running commentary of events, so it comes as no surprise that we ended up in a discussion of each house as we passed it, as well as a recap of each street as we turned the corner. There was one house that had decorations I just didn't get. The house was perfectly nice, located in an upscale neighborhood. In the front yard, the homeowners placed a manger scene, complete with the baby Jesus in a wooden crib, watched over by parental units, all underneath a thatched canopy. Nearby stood the three wise men, an assortment of animals (not bad for North Dallas) and Santa Claus. That's right, Santa Claus. Whenever we would pass the offending house, my mother would go on a tirade about how wrong the decorations were and how sacreligious they were. All I could think was, "Way to miss the point." That's how I feel when I see this website. Regular readers of my blog (yes, both of you) probably don't frequent law firm websites, but I've seen a few over the years. This one is, by far, the funniest. Folks, law firm websites aren't supposed to be funny. What's more, it isn't clear from this website whether its creators intended for it to be humorous (though I have a hunch they didn't). Once I get past the initial image of the teenage-type-person who appears to have an extra chromosome, I am struck by the irony of this site. The site's "theme" (if I may, and I think I will) seems to be to keep it simple. Not a bad idea. Too bad their website doesn't follow that advice. After inundating you with photos of people who either look like specimens from the bottom of the gene pool or who look like they've sat on something vaguely squishy, you're treated to their litigation philosophy -- summed up in a page so long you have to scroll down to read the drivel -- that goes on (and on) about how wonderful it is that they're able to take incredibly complex concepts and dumb them down so they'll be so simple, even a juror could understand them! If I were looking for a law firm to defend my large, corporate entity in say, toxic tort litigation, this website might not be ringing my bell. Here's why: There are, without a doubt, some issues in toxic tort litigation that are complicated. Do these cases require lawyers to split atoms? Well, not exactly. To assume that you, or your law firm, is one of the only entities capable of understanding and parsing such issues as (1) duty, (2) breach, (3) causation and (4) damages is somewhat misleading. I just get the feeling when I read this website that the firm is looking out at its public, wearing a satisfied grin and saying, "Don't worry about those arcane, convoluted, downright confusing lawsuits that plague you so! Our firm has a team of supermen who will whip on their Toxic Avenger capes and save the day with our dry erase boards and sharpie markers! We'll make those stupid, stupid jurors understand even the trickiest arguments -- Don't worry, you can pay us later." ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: greyheadedstranger EMAIL: jkilpatrick@hot.rr.com IP: 198.26.123.36 URL: http://greyheadedstranger@blogspot.com DATE: 03/10/2004 03:46:26 PM My first thought was to be offended they would have such a low disdain for jurors (yes I realize we are not all from the same gene pool, thank god) especially since I and most of my friends are potential jurors on any given day. But then I got over it to see the unintential humor of the site. {"pay me and I can talk down to any level"} ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: RokynRobyn EMAIL: robyn@mikeandrobyn.net IP: 12.161.81.25 URL: http://www.mikeandrobyn.net DATE: 03/12/2004 11:12:21 AM I am an editor at a publishing firm, which publishes legal treatises. One of our authors is a partner for Morrison and Foerster. We always giggle when we get his electronic manuscript from mofo.com. We think that is an ironic name for a attorney Web site. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Dr. Laura Redux STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 03/10/2004 09:46:18 AM ----- BODY: For those of you who are as irritated by Dr. Laura as I am, I thought you'd appreciate the follow missive which can be found on snopes.com. The link was sent to me by a friend with an excellent eye. Enjoy: Dear Dr. Laura, Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and I try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind him that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate. I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some of the specific laws and how to best follow them. a) When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord (Lev 1:9). The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them? b) I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her? c) I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Lev 15:19-24). The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense. d) Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians? e) I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself? f) A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an Abomination (Lev 11:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? g) Lev 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here? h) Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev 19:27. How should they die? i) I know from Lev 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves? j) My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev 19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? (Lev 24:10-16) Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14) I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging. Your devoted disciple and adoring fan. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: greyheadedstranger EMAIL: jkilpatrick@hot.rr.com IP: 198.26.123.36 URL: http://greyheadedstranger@blogspot.com DATE: 03/10/2004 03:53:13 PM If I were not so busy LMAO, falling on the floor, wiping tears from side splitting laughter from eyes and cheeks, and trying to keep myself from creating a urine stain in my pants, I would offer some relevant comments...suffice to say "what a great post"!!! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: RokynRobyn EMAIL: robyn.sandoval@thomsonmedia.com IP: 12.161.81.25 URL: http://www.mikeandrobyn.net DATE: 03/12/2004 11:01:06 AM A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans... LMAO! I also love, "Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?" That is so hilarious! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Vauda EMAIL: vkane@dentonisd.org IP: 68.185.199.252 URL: DATE: 03/12/2004 11:49:51 AM That's filarious! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Casey EMAIL: cleger1@lsu.edu IP: 209.124.224.37 URL: http://justnorthofnowhere.blog-city.com DATE: 03/12/2004 06:08:10 PM Oh my ....can't stop laughing....must breath ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: magik EMAIL: mistahmagik@wetwired.org IP: 68.226.185.75 URL: http://yeeh... DATE: 03/14/2004 10:59:50 AM i might read her new book.... ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 03/16/2004 04:04:35 PM mwahahahahaha ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Chedda' STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 03/12/2004 07:05:00 PM ----- BODY: 1. What's your favorite form of corporate or governmental irony? Microsoft always strives to simplify their software so anyone can understand and use it. This is the same company that expects you to shut down your computer by clicking a button labeled "Start". 2. What are your favorite acronyms? I can't say that I have any. 3. Do you have personal acronyms? What are they? Again, nope. 4. Where do you shop online? Mostly amazon.com and lately at reflect.com. 5. What do you buy online? At Amazon I buy books, music and workout DVD's. At Reflect I buy makeup. 6. What would you do if you were falsely accused of shoplifting? I would get some of my friends at the firm to represent me, file a lawsuit against the company that falsely accused me and make them miserable until they dropped the charges. 7. What's your take on Feng Shui? Hooey or truey? Hooey. Your success, happiness and financial well-being are all dependent on where you place the fern in your office? Whatever. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: greyheadedstranger EMAIL: jkilpatrick@hot.rr.com IP: 24.243.176.93 URL: http://greyheadedstranger@blogspot.com DATE: 03/13/2004 02:29:44 PM You are so right about Mircosoft. I finally solved the problem (all by myself without spending the $29.95 for tech help) with Norton and XP. Seems XP decided to make my Norton 2004 for XP (key word her is "for XP") compatible with Windows 95 and 98, which neither are my operating systems..did I mention I was running XP...duh I though I did. ----- PING: TITLE: loans URL: http://www.uccpp.org/loans.html IP: 207.248.240.118 BLOG NAME: loans DATE: 06/15/2005 04:22:26 AM Please visit the sites dedicated to loans home loans ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: *cough* STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 03/15/2004 04:15:17 PM ----- BODY: I am sick. For the record, I don't get sick often. But when I do, I go all out. I was starting to feel sick this weekend, but I presumed it was just seasonal allergies (since it is in the 70's here). After I took two Benadryl caplets during the day and didn't even feel the slightest bit sleepy, that was a clue. I felt a bit better this morning, so I dragged myself into work. By 10:00 a.m., I felt as if a truck had hit me in the face, backed up and hit me again. I scooped up some work to take home and went straight to my doctor's office (handily located just around the corner from my office). His diagnosis? Bronchitis with a sinus infection and two ear infections. Ick. I am now heavily medicated and lying on the couch watching daytime television. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: greyheadedstranger EMAIL: jkilpatrick@hot.rr.com IP: 24.243.176.93 URL: http://greyheadedstranger@blogspot.com DATE: 03/15/2004 07:26:33 PM Hope you are feeling better. There is a bad stomach virus going on around here, so far I have been lucky. Here's a big hug coming your way. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Sherron EMAIL: sshroyer@cei.net IP: 67.14.193.73 URL: DATE: 03/15/2004 07:46:55 PM ugh-a-bug! No fun! You've got to get well! Someone special is coming home soon! Wish I were close enough to bring some chicken soup over. Take care - Love, Sherron ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Big Daddy EMAIL: mikes@theartofsmoking.com IP: 143.166.226.17 URL: DATE: 03/16/2004 07:08:52 AM Ouch... I don't know what's worse, sick or daytime television :( My cure all for sickness, Nyquil baby! 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And yes, daytime television sucks. Thank goodness for DVD players! ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: greyheadedstranger EMAIL: jkilpatrick@hot.rr.com IP: 198.26.123.36 URL: http://greyheadedstranger@blogspot.com DATE: 03/16/2004 02:12:10 PM Glad to hear you are better. Agree with you about daytime tv, but also I don't watch network tv at all (except for sports events). I have over 20 different movie channels -- from classics to new releases -- now that is what I am talking about. 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My husband has made it safely to Kuwait, but is in despair because he has very limited internet access and he purchased more minutes for his satellite phone on Tuesday but they haven't reached his account yet. My first phone call this morning was to the satellite phone store to see what's up with his minutes and why this is taking so long. I am generally a very patient, laid-back person, but you really don't want to be around me when I'm upset about something. He should have more minutes in two hours. Aside from avenging the grievous injustices which have been visited upon my husband by the evil sat phone store, I've been trying to get caught up at work post-illness and am preparing for a trip to Charleston, SC on Monday for a deposition. Air travel here I come! ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: greyheadedstranger EMAIL: jkilpatrick@hot.rr.com IP: 24.243.176.93 URL: http://greyheadedstranger@blogspot.com DATE: 03/19/2004 11:15:06 AM Glad to see you are better. Thanks for keeping us informed on Justin. (...sending big evil eye to Sat people...) Air travel...yea...you will be fine!!! Have fun. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 03/19/2004 04:47:35 PM uh oh.. airtravel! ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Cheddar X STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 03/25/2004 08:31:23 AM ----- BODY: 1. What would you want written on your epitaph? She just got tired. 2. What do you collect and why? I collect cd's and books. I have so many books that they have bowed in the bookshelves in the living room. Even if I don't read them again, I can't bring myself to part with them. 3. What's the dumbest legal action you know of? Alienation of affection. If your relationship doesn't work out, get over it. There are far more creative ways to get revenge on your ex than this stupid cause of action. 4. What single decision in your life do you wish you could change? I can't think of one specific instance that I would change, but the only thing I think I'd change is I wish I'd stood up for myself and for others when I (and they) got picked on growing up. 5. Some people resemble their dogs, do you know anyone that resembles their name? When I was in college, I knew a guy who had the unfortunate name of Les Johnson (I'm not kidding). I never had the oppotunity to find out if he resembled his name or not. 6. What's your favourite / most used unit of time? I don't know what my favorite is, but my least favorite is 6 minutes -- we bill our time at work in six minute increments (i.e. 0.1=6 minutes, 0.2= 12 minutes, etc.) Once you start doing this at work, you begin inadvertantly breaking down the rest of your life in six minute increments, as well. 7. What's the best internet time device you've seen so far? I know of some great internet time wasting devices..... ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 03/25/2004 08:34:33 AM glad to be back? ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jenny EMAIL: jnkilpat@hotmail.com IP: 64.216.161.28 URL: DATE: 03/25/2004 09:54:48 AM I'm glad you're back. Though I have been more productive at work. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jennifer EMAIL: tulanegrad99@hotmail.com IP: 204.27.101.91 URL: http://kittysays.wetwired.org DATE: 03/25/2004 09:56:57 AM It is very good to be back. 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I was scheduled to fly out Monday afternoon. Normally, I am a sound sleeper. I fall asleep fairly quickly and sleep like a rock through the night. When I was still awake at 1:30 a.m., I knew that it was going to be a long week. I closed my eyes and tried to drift into sleep, but my eyelids just fluttered rapidly, desperately trying to avoid slumber, and my mind kept going over and over thoughts about my impending flight. Monday morning the sky was as clear as it has been in ages, a cloudless azure blue, perfect for flying. And when I was at work, sitting at my desk, pounding away on my laptop and trying to get some work done, I felt so alone. The ironic part, of course, is that I normally like being alone. I enjoy it. But this was different. As I've done so many times before, I canceled my plane reservation and reserved a rental car. I figured if I was going to put 1600 miles on a car, better it be someone else's car. I printed up driving directions to Charleston, loaded up the rental car and sped away onto the Interstate. It was about an hour later when I realized that the car I had rented lacked cruise control. The deposition was the easiest part of the whole trip. I met the doctor, who is incredibly kind, smart and funny, and defended him at his deposition with ease. I'm really good at what I do, it's just getting there that is the problem. Shouldn't the deposition have been the hard part of the trip? ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: greyheadedstranger EMAIL: jkilpatrick@hot.rr.com IP: 150.113.7.99 URL: http://greyheadedstranger@blogspot.com DATE: 03/25/2004 03:51:34 PM So glad you are back safely. Don't fret over the flying thing, while it is faster you do miss all the beauty of our country. Several years ago when I was traveling all over the country, my most enjoyable trips were driving not flying. I still have the memories of rural america, in every sector of our land, that no one can take away. I would have missed it all had I flown and this is coming from a former pilot that loves to fly. The other person's lawyer, regardless of driving or flying, did not stand a chance against you. You are the ACE of lawyers in my book. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Sherron EMAIL: sshroyer@cie.net IP: 67.14.193.77 URL: DATE: 03/28/2004 09:20:51 AM Greyheadedstranger is right about missing out when you fly. I've flown into St Louis at least 20 times on business and as it's a day trip there and back from Little Rock have never taken the opportunity to experience St Louis. Chicago? - the same thing. After traveling to New York and taken the time to be a tourist at the same time, I made myself a promise to take an extra day wherever I go to just be a tourist instead of a worker bee. Funny thing, after that promise to myself - I find myself not traveling anymore! 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The nice thing about Rogers & Hammerstein musicals, of course, is that you've already heard most of the songs before, so it is at least somewhat familiar territory (Oklahoma! includes "Oh What A Beautiful Morning", 'People Will Say We're In Love" and "Surrey With the Fringe on Top.") The show was top-notch and has inspired me to buy tickets for 42nd Street, which plays next month. In addition, the Saenger will be showing classic movies this summer, including Casablanca, Dr. Zhivago and An American in Paris for only $6/ticket -- definitely money well spent. We'll be checking those out. And for those of you poor souls who my husband called while we were waiting for curtain call, just because he wanted to look cool making phone calls on his cell phone, I apologize. 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I sincerely hope she was joking. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: greyheadedstranger EMAIL: jkilpatrick@hot.rr.com IP: 24.243.176.93 URL: http://greyheadedstranger.blogspot.com DATE: 05/29/2004 12:41:33 PM Okay, I really am old. I did not know 10% of the artists (?) they were talking about. But I did find a great Marty Robbins 3 set CD and the new Nora Jones CD this weekend, so all is not lost. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Lazy Memorial Day STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 05/31/2004 10:37:23 AM ----- BODY: It's been a pretty quiet weekend, thus, the lack of regular posting. Archi-Sapper left town yesterday to give a Memorial Day speech, so Maggie and I had a girls' night in. We had dinner, painted our nails and watched a movie. We ended up watching The World According to Garp. I really love John Irving's books, but the movie version of that one was, well, weird. I could handle the feminists, the wrestling and the assassination attempts, but John Lithgow as a former NFL star who has a sex change operation? Weird stuff. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Guilty Pleasures STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 06/01/2004 03:19:10 PM ----- BODY: Everyone has things in their lives that they're simply too embarassed to admit they like. There's the sweatpants with holes in them that we wouldn't be caught dead in (but wear around the house in hopes that no one stops by for an impromptu visit), there's the high school cd collection (the Debbie Gibson cd I had was a gift, I swear) and the collection of cheesy movies (we won't even name those to protect the absolutely guilty). My latest guilty pleasure is murder mystery novels. I'm currently reading this one. The author isn't awful, but let's just say that she doesn't need to buy a plane ticket to Stockholm any time soon. In any event, I was so engrossed in reading this book last night that when Archi-Sapper walked in the door from his trip, I nearly went into cardiac arrest. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: greyheadedstranger EMAIL: jkilpatrick@hot.rr.com IP: 198.26.123.36 URL: http://greyheadedstranger.blogspot.com DATE: 06/01/2004 04:15:19 PM Okay so you are telling me that someone that could come up with the title of "The Case of the Hook-Billed Kites: It's Springtime in the Texas Mountains...And Bird Watching Has Become A Deadly Hobby" is not ready for the big P. Now why am I not shocked. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Leah EMAIL: trixie_skips@hotmail.com IP: 67.164.129.23 URL: http://www.livejournal.com/users/trixie_skips DATE: 06/07/2004 11:45:45 AM Fabulous guilty pleasure: celebrity "biographies." The Sound of Noise and Thing of Beauty are so trashy, they're delicious. But they definitely don't live on my bookshelf; these are books to hide in a drawer. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Reality STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 06/02/2004 08:51:56 AM ----- BODY: There's finally a reality show I can relate to. This Survivor-style reality show, featuring celebrities from Colombia, is so un-fun that the celebs are begging to be voted off the show. I've always said that that's exactly what I would do if I were ever forced to compete on Survivor. One of the contestants said in an interview that he "ate virtually nothing his first three days and then choked down mostly cockroach-like insects and tiny crabs to survive." "I got terrible stomach problems,'' he said. "I must have eaten 180 mini-crabs. They just don't fill you up.'' This sounds like the Atkins diet gone terribly wrong. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 06/02/2004 11:11:55 AM thats freaking funny. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Book Bloggers STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 06/03/2004 09:22:51 AM ----- BODY: I read this article last night about the trend of bloggers who are writing books. The idea makes sense -- if you can write coherently on a regular basis on your blog and people actually enjoy reading it, writing a book isn't too far off the mark. If I were ever approached about writing a book, my reaction would be much the same as the blogger quoted in the article -- what would I write about? ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: What Not to Wear STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 06/05/2004 05:31:47 PM ----- BODY: There must be something in the water around here because all I seem to be able to focus on these days is frivolity. I'm having a great time, but let's just say I haven't been splitting atoms in my spare time. One of my favorite shows to watch is the American version of What Not to Wear. I love watching this show because I am amused at all of the lame reasons people give for hanging onto that bright red sweater that has a picture of two mooses kissing on the front of it (said sweaters are almost always worn by people living in places like Miami). I was discussing this show the other day when I was at work, in one of our conference rooms, sitting with a bunch of lawyers waiting to start a meeting. I mentioned how much I enjoy the show and someone said, "I don't like that show. The hosts are so mean." I replied, "Actually, that's why I like the American version, because the hosts on the British show are much meaner." A guy seated next to me said, "Yeah, but when British people are mean, it's funny." Point taken. The conversation got me to thinking about the appeal of the show and why lawyers don't like it, and it hit me -- most lawyers I know could really use this show. Case in point -- the last two women who received wardrobe/haircut/makeup overhauls on this show were female lawyers. The two offending attorneys both made the same fashion mistakes -- both dressed like lawyers (read: clad in all black with big, clunky heels that could double as door stoppers and large, boxy jackets which could cover them and several of their best friends simultaneously). Of the few lawyers I know who attempt to "dress outside the box", few are successful. One woman, who shall remain nameless, used to show up for work looking like she'd been dressed by a color-blind circus clown. She wore a purple and black plaid, ill-fitting suit with bright blue tights and black, misshapen shoes. I'm still considering asking our firm to pay for my therapy bills to recover from seeing that. That being said, dressing like a lawyer isn't easy (for a woman -- guys have it remarkably easy when their choices are suits, suits and suits). There's this struggle between wanting to look professional and not wanting to look dowdy. Between wanting to look fresh and not wanting to look inappropriate. It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from the show. A young woman who sells real estate for a living (God help her) was dressing far too skimpily (is that a word?) At any rate, she was modeling her wardrobe for the hosts and defending each article of clothing, when she appeared wearing a short red silk dress which looked like a cross between a kimono and a negligee. She said, "This dress is where east meets west", and one of the hosts deadpanned, "That dress is where hoochie meets mama." ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: greyheadedstranger EMAIL: jkilpatrick@hot.rr.com IP: 24.243.176.93 URL: http://greyheadedstranger.blogspot.com DATE: 06/06/2004 09:27:53 PM Does this mean my old holely blue jean cutoffs are in danger of making the dumpster trip? BTW thanks for the note on the blog of the day, I am honored and told Rob the same. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Layne EMAIL: sedalina@yahoo.com IP: 66.41.112.42 URL: http://plainlayne.dreamhost.com DATE: 06/07/2004 10:37:14 PM So much for the Ally McBeal stereotype. Now I'll never want to become a laywer! In my profession -- Fortune 500 ass-kissing -- the only rule is act like a slut, don't dress like one. I might be going somewhere on the orgchart if we had wet bars at work... ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Cheddar X Interview STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 06/09/2004 09:09:20 PM ----- BODY: 1. What skills do you need to develop most? Tolerance of stupidity. 2. What did you like most about your last job? My co-workers' sense of humor. 3. What has been your favorite job? The one I have now (seriously). 4. What was your worst or most degrading job? My worst job was working at Express clothing store in Highland Park Village in Dallas (a location of Express that no longer exists). It was a part-time job I held during high school. The shifts were too long, we had to wear the clothes and I couldn't bring myself to tell people that they looked good in those clothes. 5. How do you deal with inter-office personality conflicts? If I have a personality conflict with someone I have to work with directly, I communicate with them directly and at the beginning of the project and follow up later with e-mails so I have responses in writing. 6. In what kinds of situations do you find it most difficult to deal with people? I find it most difficult to deal with people who are being overly emotional about something that shouldn't involve people's emotions (or at least, not as much). I never would've thought I'd meet lawyers who are overly sensitive, but I have. 7. How do you handle crisis situations? As calmly and quickly as possible. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Well Read STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 06/12/2004 05:55:37 PM ----- BODY: This is a list of books Pylorns posted on the Wetwired forums. The idea is that you're supposed to bold the books you've read and italicize the books you started but never finished. I have no idea why some of these books are on here (Pylorns didn't choose the list, I'm sure he got it elsewhere), but every list is subjective. At the bottom of the list are three books I've read that (surprisingly) weren't included in the list. 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 8. 1984, George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone, JK Rowling 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 27. Middlemarch, George Eliot 28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving 29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 30. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson 32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett 34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute 38. Persuasion, Jane Austen 39. Dune, Frank Herbert 40. Emma, Jane Austen 41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery 42. Watership Down, Richard Adams 43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh 46. Animal Farm, George Orwell 47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian 50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher 51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett 52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck 53. The Stand, Stephen King 54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 56. The BFG, Roald Dahl 57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome 58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell 59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer 60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman 62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden 63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough 65. Mort, Terry Pratchett 66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton 67. The Magus, John Fowles 68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett 70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding 71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda, Roald Dahl 75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding 76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt 77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins 78. Ulysses, James Joyce 79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson 81. The Twits, Roald Dahl 82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith 83. Holes, Louis Sachar 84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake 85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson 87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons 89. Magician, Raymond E Feist 90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac 91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel 93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett 94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho 95. Katherine, Anya Seton 96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer 97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson 99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie 101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome 102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett 103. The Beach, Alex Garland 104. Dracula, Bram Stoker 105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz 106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens 107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz 108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks 109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth 110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson 111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy 112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend 113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat 114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo 115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy 116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson 117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson 118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde 119. Shogun, James Clavell 120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham 121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson 122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray 123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy 124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski 125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver 126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett 127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison 128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle 129. Possession, A. S. Byatt 130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov 131. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood 132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl 133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck 134. George’s Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl 135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett 136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker 137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett 138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan 139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson 140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson 141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque 142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson 143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 144. It, Stephen King 145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl 146. The Green Mile, Stephen King 147. Papillon, Henri Charriere 148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett 149. Master And Commander, Patrick O’Brian 150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz 151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett 152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett 153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett 154. Atonement, Ian McEwan 155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson 156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier 157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey 158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad 159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling 160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon 161. Moby **** , Herman Melville 162. River God, Wilbur Smith 163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon 164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx 165. The World According To Garp, John Irving 166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore 167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson 168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye 169. The Witches, Roald Dahl 170. Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White 171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley 172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams 173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway 174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco 175. Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder 176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson 177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl 178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov 179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach 180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery 181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson 182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens 183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay 184. Silas Marner, George Eliot 185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis 186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith 187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh 188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine 189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri 190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence 191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera 192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons 193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett 194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells 195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans 196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry 197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett 198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White 199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle 200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews 201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien 202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan 203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan 204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan 205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan 206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan 207. Winter’s Heart, Robert Jordan 208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan 209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan 210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan 211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto 212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland 213. The Married Man, Edmund White 214. Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin 215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault 216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice 217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell 218. Equus, Peter Shaffer 219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten 220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke 221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn 222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice 223. Anthem, Ayn Rand 224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson 225. Tartuffe, Moliere 226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka 227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller 228. The Trial, Franz Kafka 229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles 230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles 231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther 232. A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen 233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen 234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton 235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry 236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read 237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono 238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde 240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley 241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson 242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny 242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon 243. Summerland, Michael Chabon 244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole 245. Candide, Voltaire 246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl 247. Ringworld, Larry Niven 248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault 249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle 251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde 252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne 253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne 254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan 255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson 256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith 257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony 258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum 259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon 260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde 261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde 261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel 263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver 264. A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris 265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder 267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls 268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock 269. Witch of Blackbird Pond, Joyce Friedland 270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien 271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt 272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor 273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg 274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster 275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin 276. The Kitchen God’s Wife, Amy Tan 277. The Bone Setter’s Daughter, Amy Tan 278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child 279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire 280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman 281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry 282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum 283. Haunted, Judith St. George 284. Singularity, William Sleator 285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson 286. Different Seasons, Stephen King 287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk 288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby 289. The Bookman’s Wake, John Dunning 290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns 291. Illusions, Richard Bach 292. Magic’s Pawn, Mercedes Lackey 293. Magic’s Promise, Mercedes Lackey 294. Magic’s Price, Mercedes Lackey 295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav 296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker 297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice 298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love 299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace. 300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison. 301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving. 302. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card 303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland 304. The Lion’s Game, Nelson Demille 305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust 306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh 307. Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco 308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson 309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk 310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz 311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand 312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk 313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu 314. The Giver, Lois Lowry 315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin 316. Xenogenesis (or Lilith’s Brood), Octavia Butler 317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold 318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold 319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil) 320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill 321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman) 322. Beowulf, Anonymous 323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell 324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley 325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey 326. Passage, Connie Willis 327. Otherland, Tad Williams 328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay 329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry 330. Beloved, Toni Morrison 331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore 332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin 333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume 334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo 335. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev 336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover 337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson 338. The Genesis Code, John Case 339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen 340. Paradise Lost, John Milton 341. Phantom, Susan Kay 342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice 343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman 344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher 345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson 346: The Winter of Magic’s Return, Pamela Service 347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz 348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok 349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler 350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime O’Neill 351. Othello, by William Shakespeare 352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats 354. Sati, Christopher Pike 355. The Inferno, Dante 356. The Apology, Plato 357. The Small Rain, Madeline L’Engle 358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick 359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater 360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier 361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier 362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf 363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder 364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King 365. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass 366. The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie 367. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson 368. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster loved 369. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky 370. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux 371. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg 372. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy 373. Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones 374. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown 375. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo 376. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer 377. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck 378. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby 379. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston 380. Time for Bed by David Baddiel 381. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold 382. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre 383. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley 384. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff 385. Jhereg by Steven Brust 386. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane 387. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville 388. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte 389. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz 390. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje 391. Neuromancer, William Gibson 392. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 393. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr 394. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault 395. The Gunslinger, Stephen King 396. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare 397. Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke 398. A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman 399. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott 400. The God Boy, Ian Cross 401. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King 402. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson 403. Misery, Stephen King 404. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters 405. Hood, Emma Donoghue 406. The Land of Spices, Kate O’Brien 407. The Diary of Anne Frank 408. Regeneration, Pat Barker 409. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald 410. Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia 411. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway 412. The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg 413. Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede 414. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss 415. A Severed Wasp - Madeleine L’Engle 416. Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman 417. The Mabinogion (Ancient Welsh Tales) - translated by Lady Charlotte E. Guest 418. The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown 419. Desire of the Everlasting Hills - Thomas Cahill 420. The Cloister Walk - Kathleen Norris 421. The Things We Carried, Tim O’Brien 422. I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb 423. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk 424. Ender’s Shadow, Orson Scott Card 425. The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card 426. The Iron Tower, Dennis L. McKiernen 427.The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles 428. The Four Feathers, A.E.W. Mason 429. The Jester, James Patterson 430. Cry the beloved Country, Alan Paton 431. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath 432. The Stranger, Albert Camus And you're supposed to add three books you've read to the end of the list that don't previously appear. Here are mine: 433. Lady Chatterly's Lover, D.H. Lawrence 434. Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie 435. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: greyheadedstranger EMAIL: jkilpatrick@hot.rr.com IP: 24.243.176.93 URL: http://greyheadedstranger.blogspot.com DATE: 06/14/2004 07:24:43 AM This is an impressive list, it is going to take me some time just to read it much less copy it and respond. I take it this is a progressive list, so I when I copy it, I also copy your addtional three also then I would add three more. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Sherron EMAIL: sshroyer@cei.net IP: 67.14.193.7 URL: DATE: 06/14/2004 10:18:43 PM Great list. Most of my favorites are there, and I appreciate having some new suggestions to search for. For a read-aholic, it's like a Sears and Roebuck catalog. 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Since I will read just about anything (the side of a cereal box, Gun and Tackle magazine, you name it), this seemed like a good idea. It was, but for reasons that have nothing to do with reading. The book club has ten members, all women, half of whom are lawyers and half of whom are doctors (its an acquired taste). We assign a book, get together, drink wine and talk about our sex lives. Don't get me wrong, I love these women. They're accomplished, funny, smart and have one hell of a shoe collection. These women, however, don't read. They get really excited about selecting new books, just not about reading them. Quite a while ago I resigned myself to the fact that these women, wonderful though they may be, aren't going to finish any of the assigned books, so I just show up expecting some good wine and better gossip. I am rewarded every time. While lamenting (read: whining about) the non-readers in my "book club" to a friend of mine, he suggested I give his book club a test drive. He mentioned a few of the books they'd read in the past, and told me the next three books they've selected for their meetings through August. To make things even easier, he was hosting his club's next meeting and he invited me to join them. The assigned book was Oyster, which was fitting, as it is set in Plaquemine Parish in the 1950's, and is written by a local author. I headed over to my friend's house on Monday night, and was pleasantly surprised to see not only men (!), but people of various ages, which gave a much richer tone to the conversations. We had a seated dinner and over white wine and shrimp discussed the Greek tragedy overtones in the book, and some people's frustrations with the excessive use of Louisiana food terms (this is a book that has lines like, "The night was as still as a pot of cold gumbo". Quite irritating if you live in south Louisiana, but easily overlooked since the book is plot driven and not overly descriptive). We ate, drank, talked and laughed and actually discussed the book. Who knew? Over dinner we selected the book for the September book club (since they've already picked the July and August books). To my surprise, coming from a book club that reads romance novels, they picked The Iliad. No, I'm not joking. And they chose a specific translation, because the translator will be in town and they want to invite him to the September meeting. I think I'm in love. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: MJ EMAIL: mj@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://jackson.wetwired.org DATE: 06/17/2004 08:05:19 AM Whatcha reading for??? Reading iz stoopid. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Big Daddy EMAIL: mike@mikeandrobyn.net IP: 143.166.226.16 URL: DATE: 06/17/2004 10:42:54 AM All about gettin' yo learn on :) ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jenny EMAIL: jnkilpat@hotmail.com IP: 64.216.161.28 URL: DATE: 06/17/2004 11:13:26 AM It's like any other relationship... 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Come find me over there until 7/1. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 4.231.11.176 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 07/02/2004 10:41:11 AM Thanks, kitty. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Cheddar X STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 07/02/2004 04:33:48 PM ----- BODY: 1. What was the best thing that happened to you this week? The worst? Best: Tie between going to lunch with the law clerks at Pancho's Mexican Buffet (the food was disgusting, but the company was great) and having dinner with Archi-Sapper and boss at her house last night. Worst: Working until 9:00 p.m. Tuesday night. No thank you. 2. What's the best thing someone's done for you (recently or not so recently)? What's the worst thing someone's done to you (again, recently or not so recently)? Best: Again, a tie between giving me a job when no one else wanted to employ me and all of the supportive things Archi-Sapper has done for me. Worst: two words: high school. 3. What's the best thing about your job? Worst? Best: the funny people. Worst: Stupid decisions made by management. 4. What's the best new website you've found? Worst? Best: Reality Blurred (a blog of reality shows). Worst: The website of Odin Soli, the mastermind behind the Plain Layne hoax. 5. What's the best book you've read? Worst? Best ever: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Worst: A book I read in junior high by Drew Barrymore about her life story (gimme a break, it was junior high). 6. What's the best movie you've seen? Worst? Best: High Fidelity. Worst: Ishtar. 7. What's the best meal you've had? Worst? Best: Tie between meals at Jacq-Imo's in New Orleans and at K-Paul in New Orleans. Worst: Dinner at Ye Olde College Inn in New Orleans (the restaurant was populated with senior citizens, and the waitress refused to bring us anything we asked for but doted over the seniors. It must've been reverse age discrimination). 8. What's the best holiday? Worst? Best: Thanksgiving. All that food and no gifts to wrap. Worst: Valentine's Day. 9. What's the best thing in your future? Worst? Best: happiness. Worst: more work. 10. What's the best quote you know? Worst? Best: Adults are children who owe money. Worst: "They can't suspend all seven of us!" (this stated by seven high school seniors prior to a senior year prank which did result in seven suspensions) 11. What's your best word? Worst word? Best: meow. Worst: woof. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 209.16.84.22 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 07/05/2004 09:50:22 AM About #10: We had a classmate expose his shoulder-length hair (At De La Salle in New Orleans, it couldn't touch your shirt collar in 1975) on Graduation Night. He figured they couldn't do anything to him. Little did he know that the diplomas we received that night were ceremonial and the real ones would be coming later in the mail. He did not graduate with the rest of us. 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My favorite line from the article: "The New Orleans Police Department is responsible for enforcing the law, and violations should be reported by calling the department's nonemergency line." I don't know about you, but when nature calls, I'd classify that as an emergency. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 209.16.84.22 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 07/08/2004 08:53:02 AM I think the issue is the bars, themselves. They want their bathrooms to be for their employees and patrons only. That's not unreasonable if you ask me. There really is no excuse for this. There are 1000 cops down there. Post signs and arrest those that urinate in public. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Puppets EMAIL: puppets@puppet-barn.biz IP: 80.58.3.237 URL: http://www.puppet-barn.biz DATE: 11/06/2004 10:23:30 PM Shoulder Bag, Purse, Carry-On, Bag, Tote, Knitting Bag ----- PING: TITLE: Overdue Linkfest URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/archives/001064.html IP: 63.247.72.82 BLOG NAME: CrabAppleLane Blog DATE: 07/08/2004 06:10:53 AM Some links I’ve enjoyed lately I offer for your perusal. Clicks is back with a great picture taken in Charleston, SC. Weighty issues at kittysays. She and I agree on what constitutes an emergency. Bluffs, stones, and rocks at Bored... ----- PING: TITLE: Overdue Linkfest URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/archives/001064.html IP: 63.247.72.82 BLOG NAME: CrabAppleLane Blog DATE: 07/08/2004 06:10:56 AM Some links I’ve enjoyed lately I offer for your perusal. Clicks is back with a great picture taken in Charleston, SC. Weighty issues at kittysays. She and I agree on what constitutes an emergency. Bluffs, stones, and rocks at Bored... ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: The Hunt STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 07/07/2004 05:52:05 PM ----- BODY: As Archi-Sapper mentioned on his blog the other day, we're house hunting. When we initially started the wild, weird journey I thought, "No big deal. I love shopping. This is just shopping for something a whole lot bigger than say, a pair of flip flops. Okay." I'm going to have to retract those thoughts. A house is MUCH bigger than a flip flop. We have signed up with an excellent local realtor who has been showing us houses. This is, of course, the fun part. This is akin to going to the mall to try on clothes, only without the salespeople trying to peek over your dressing room door to see how you're doing (does that happen to anyone else?), without the bad music played in each store and without having to find your car in the parking lot when it's all done. We're not planning on making any immediate offers at any of these houses, so no pressure. Right? We saw one house that had a cat lurking outside, and when we walked inside, it became apparent that the cat had been living in the house. Alone. With no one to deoderize the house. Note to real estate agents who list houses: they're much easier to sell when they don't smell like wet cat. We saw another house that had foundation problems. Most houses settle after a few years, and in southeast Louisiana, you expect quite a bit of movement beneath you. However, prior to selling a house, most people fix their foundation problems. Not this seller. I knew I couldn't move into that house because I would've been afraid to put our dog in the corner, for fear that she'd tumble paw over paw until she landed face first in the door. And if we're going to fix the house's foundation, we're not fixing the door. We saw a couple of houses that weren't "fixer-uppers", they were "tear down and rebuild"-ers. If I'm going to build a house, I'll either buy an empty plot of land or consider buying a house to raze if it is dirt cheap. These weren't. After looking at house after house, our favorite one is still the very first one we saw. We liked it when we walked in, and after seeing numerous houses which would undoubtedly propel us into some sort of protracted litigation at some point in the future (for brain damage to our dog, if nothing else), it looks even better. Anybody have a lawnmower we can borrow? ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jenny EMAIL: jnkilpat@hotmail.com IP: 64.216.161.28 URL: DATE: 07/08/2004 08:17:08 AM Sounds good...as long as there's an extra room for a visiting sister:) ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 209.16.84.22 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 07/08/2004 04:49:58 PM You can borrow my lawn mower. It's got a 60" cut. I can roll right over those rose bushes that smaller lawn mowers have to go around. Good Luck on the house hunt. It is both thrilling and exasperating. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Leah EMAIL: trixie_skips@hotmail.com IP: 64.48.236.25 URL: http://www.livejournal.com/users/trixie_skips DATE: 07/08/2004 09:00:38 PM It is more important than flip flops. I wore myself out just looking for a place to rent. Good luck to you for the house hunt. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: greyheadedstranger EMAIL: j57andj56@yahoo.com IP: 24.243.176.93 URL: http://greyheadedstranger.blogspot.com DATE: 07/11/2004 10:40:44 AM Don't know about the lawn mower but I do have an extra gas grill and just for Kitty, a really fine 1991 Ford Explorer with slight electrical problems and has not ran for 17 months, but what the hell, it will match Rusty in a couple of years. :):) Think of it this way, matching bookends for the yard. Okay I am not serious, I love you too much, I know I tempted fate on Rusty. :) Just some thoughts from an old...... ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 24.243.198.68 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 07/11/2004 11:08:46 AM good luck on that.. just make sure you have a room for mj and i to crash at when we come visit. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Helen EMAIL: everydaystranger@btconnect.com IP: 81.139.20.72 URL: http://everydaystranger.mu.nu DATE: 07/14/2004 11:37:54 AM House-hunting can be both big fun and very stressful-but it all depends on how you think of these words: "Fixer-Upper". ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Puppets EMAIL: puppets@puppet-barn.biz IP: 80.58.3.237 URL: http://www.puppet-barn.biz DATE: 11/06/2004 10:25:36 PM Shoulder Bag, Purse, Carry-On, Bag, Tote, Knitting Bag ----- PING: TITLE: home loans URL: http://www.uccpp.org/home-loans.html IP: 207.248.240.119 BLOG NAME: home loans DATE: 06/15/2005 04:07:20 AM Please check out the sites dedicated to loans home loans ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Toys STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 07/14/2004 05:03:51 PM ----- BODY: In a fun turn of events, my firm has just presented me with one of these. Let the e-mailing begin! ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jenny EMAIL: jnkilpat@hotmail.com IP: 64.216.161.28 URL: DATE: 07/15/2004 08:14:55 AM How long until Justin gets one? ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: magik EMAIL: mistahmagik@wetwired.org IP: 216.78.134.191 URL: http://mistahmagik.wetwired.org DATE: 07/15/2004 09:12:25 AM I tell you what... you need to hire me as the IT guy who gets free stuff and doesnt work. ;) I am looking at a Dell Axim now and so far it would be better for me than carrying a bigass laptop around campus. And if you have WiFi, you can do all kinds of stuff while sipping on a cup of jo. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Ray EMAIL: rainmanward@earthlink.net IP: 67.101.68.129 URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~rainmanward/ DATE: 07/16/2004 06:53:22 PM I am SO jealous. I still have separate phone and PDA, and I had to buy them myself. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Negotiation STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 07/15/2004 10:11:44 AM ----- BODY: Monday afternoon I was tired, excited, a little nervous and ready to get the show on the road. We've been looking at houses for a month or two, and already I'm sick of it. As I mentioned in a previous post, the more I looked at houses, the more I liked the first house we saw. Archi-Sapper felt the same way. So we decided to go for it and make an offer on the house. We met our realtor at the coffeeshop near his office. I was uncharacteristically late, as I had gotten sidetracked at the office. They were most of the way through their iced coffees by the time I arrived and saw them sitting on the front porch of the coffee shop. Our realtor suggested we walk through the house one more time and see if there were any conditions we wanted to put on our offer. We headed over to the house, our realtor got the key and we let ourselves in. Archi-Sapper knows more than any human should about construction, so he studied every wall, corner, nook and cranny to find defects. Being the more technical of the two of us, I wandered through the rooms and thought about what colors I wanted to paint the walls. After about a half hour touring the property, I was about to sweat through my business suit, and begged them to leave so we could write out our offer back at the coffee shop -- back in civilization. Back in a place where the air conditioning was turned on. We sat down with the forms and talked about the amount of our offer. I wanted to make a low-ball offer and negotiate our way back up. Archi didn't want to insult them with an offer that was too low, but like me, he also wanted to save money. We ended up making the lowest offer we could come up with that was still reasonable, and our agent said, "They won't take this. They'll probably make a counter-offer." That wasn't a problem with us, so we signed the offer and headed home. Yesterday I went to the downtown branch of our bank -- you know, the place where the little old ladies get dressed up to go to when they need to do their banking? That place. After two hours, we were pre-approved for the loan. I am still floored than anyone is willing to loan us more than $10. I trudged back through downtown to my office and tried to get some work done. By the end of the day, I had completely forgotten about the house, the meeting with the bank, the offer. . . everything. I forgot until Archi-Sapper called me. He heard from our realtor. They accepted our offer. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 07/15/2004 02:25:00 PM very cool ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Ray EMAIL: rainmanward@earthlink.net IP: 67.101.68.83 URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~rainmanward/ DATE: 07/15/2004 07:46:06 PM Congratulations. Now all you have to do is close. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: greyheadedstranger EMAIL: j57andj56@yahoo.com IP: 24.243.176.93 URL: http://greyheadedstranger.blogspot.com DATE: 07/15/2004 09:58:53 PM Fantastic, wonderful, I am so happy for ya'll!!!! LOVE YA ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 4.230.249.44 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 07/15/2004 10:22:47 PM Congratulations. Good Luck with the closing and the big move. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Big Daddy EMAIL: mike@mikeandrobyn.net IP: 143.166.226.19 URL: DATE: 07/16/2004 06:50:05 AM Congrats! 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Archi-Sapper and I are back from taking our churches' high school youth group to Destin, FL for a weekend. All of my limbs are still intact (I checked this morning), I didn't kill anyone and we all had a really good time. The best part of the actual travel to and from Florida was that Archi-Sapper was driving and wouldn't let the three teenage girls in the backseat of our car sing along to Britney Spears at the top of their lungs. There was actually an interesting mix of musical tastes in the car -- two of the girls were of the Britney Spears/Michelle Branch/any girl who sings about love listeners, while one only wanted to listen to Rush and Yes (she wasn't even born when those groups were in their prime, but I wasn't going to complain because it was far better than Britney). We stayed in a really nice condo that was close to the beach -- not that I ever saw it. Every time I would head over there or think about heading over there, I'd get distracted by something else. 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I just kept thinking to myself, "Closing costs, closing costs......" ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jenny EMAIL: jnkilpat@hotmail.com IP: 64.216.161.28 URL: DATE: 07/19/2004 10:20:04 AM At least there wasn't a hurricane this time. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 07/20/2004 03:26:44 PM you mean you didnt even get to the beach once? ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Cheddar X STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 07/23/2004 10:53:26 AM ----- BODY: 1. What did you do on your summer vacation? There will be no summer vacation this year, as all of our funds are going to buy our house. However, we are going out of town for various functions that our employers pay for, so maybe those count..... 2. If you could stop time, what would you do? Sleep. 3. What is your hidden talent? I can get people to tell me things (usually more than I want to know). 4. What's your dream house like? The one we're buying! One story, three bedroom, two bathroom with an office and plenty of space to spread out our junk. 5. What's your favorite hand or arm gesture? When I was in depositions yesterday, we finished the deposition of the plaintiff's wife. At the end of the deposition, if you were the deponent, you have the right to read a copy of the transcript and review it for typos, and then sign it to attest to the accuracy of it. However, if that sounds like a pain to you, you can waive that right (referred to as waiving reading and signing). At the end of the deposition, her lawyer said, "Okay everyone, we're done." The court reporter said, "Wait is she going to read and sign?" and her lawyer said, "No, she'll waive." When he said that, she stuck her arm out and waved at the court reporter, throwing everyone into fits of laughter. 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The game starts around 9 p.m. (right after our Luau) and is held outdoors with a glow-in the dark volleyball and net, and some lights on the sides so people don't spike each other instead of the ball. One of the partners in my department, a middle aged guy who enjoys his alcohol, decreed himself to be the scorekeeper of the game. He had arrived at the luau wearing a coconut bikini top (so wrong on so many levels), shorts and a grass skirt. When the volleyball game started, he sat on the sidelines, in his outfit, right next to the net, which he held onto for support (using the hand that wasn't holding his beer). He would occasionally drunkenly yell "side out!", regardless of whether the ball was actually in play. Good times. The only real snag in the weekend was when I checked into the hotel, looked through my bag and realized I forgot to pack any underwear. 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IE has serious security flaws (see this article for details: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5250697.html?tag=nl.) Most of the viruses, trojan horses, browser hijackers -- including the one that hit my old computer -- are written for IE, and do not affect other browsers. I now use Mozilla Firefox, and love it. It has pretty much all the functionality of IE, and can be customized to provide a host of additional features. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Archi-Sapper EMAIL: cdra489@yahoo.com IP: 66.210.225.59 URL: DATE: 08/03/2004 05:04:20 PM Big Daddy's right. I think we actually went out of town that weekend. Here's the problem: Whenever it logs in to a user, it can't. It says there's not enough memory and that windows for some reason can not verify the registry. So, I went into the setup and set it for boot from CDRom and enable OS setup. After I did that, it told me in DOS that the system is only recognizing 256 out of the 512m or RAM. So I ran the diagnostic all the memory tests and they all passed. But I'm pleased to have Vauda because I couldn't figure out how to get it into Safe Mode. I'll try that tonight. :) If that doesn't work, then expect a call or IM from me, Big Daddy, because if I can't get this to work before we move, I'm going to have the heaviest trash can on the street. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Big Daddy EMAIL: mike@mikeandrobyn.net IP: 143.166.255.17 URL: DATE: 08/04/2004 07:43:34 AM Enjoy your working computer ;) ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 08/05/2004 08:24:19 AM Yeah, he's still in the loop.. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Big Thanks STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 08/05/2004 08:38:48 AM ----- BODY: Big thanks to Big Daddy who managed to get to the bottom of our pesky computer problem. It seems that the little card inside the computer which holds our memory had become unhinged. How this happened is a mystery to me, since we never move the computer. Perhaps the dog cracked the lid of the case and moved things around. Oddly, the computer still won't let me log into my desktop, but lets Archi-Sapper log into his just fine. Only I would have sexist computer problems. Tomorrow we're off to Atlanta for the ABA Annual Meeting. If I survive the flights there and back, it should be fun. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Big Daddy EMAIL: mike@mikeandrobyn.net IP: 68.90.188.10 URL: DATE: 08/05/2004 06:15:53 PM What does it say when you try to log into yours? I'm out of town this weekend, call me sometime next week and we'll fix that too. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Leah EMAIL: trixie_skips@hotmail.com IP: 207.136.61.74 URL: http://trixie_skips.livejournal.com DATE: 08/06/2004 10:34:50 AM Oh my god. I hope you survive the Atlanta airport. 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Good enough for me. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 08/10/2004 08:36:05 AM welcome back ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Cheddar X STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 08/11/2004 03:16:30 PM ----- BODY: Would you rather: Sing country songs buck naked to the PTA or come across your "art" photos on a porn site? Ummmmmm, the latter. Have a biker gang for neighbors or five chatty Chihuahuas within barking distance? Oh definitely the biker gang. They wouldn't be at home making noise as much as the chihuahuas. Be addicted to sniffing modeling glue or be addicted to huffing butane from Bic lighters? Modeling glue. At least my addiction would be the result of something creative. Lick a 9 volt battery or lick the bottom of your foot? The bottom of my foot. I'm pretty clean. Ketchup soup or mustard soup? Mustard soup. Mustard rules. Live in a great house in a place you don't like or a bad house in a place you love? A great house, hands down. Once I'm inside, I don't really care about what's going on in the street. Spend a weekend at a spa or spend a weekend camping? You can't be serious..... And finally, just a couple of questions this week to maintain the continuity. 1. What would you host a cable tv program about? A mix of things -- music, movies, theater, politics, shoes. 2. What or who do you lust for? Besides shoes? 3. You've got a spare $5,000, what do you do with it? Pay off credit cards. 4. How often do you see your family? 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You're To Kill a Mockingbird!
by Harper Lee
Perceived as a revolutionary and groundbreaking person, you have changed the minds of many people. While questioning the authority around you, you've also taken a significant amount of flack. But you've had the admirable guts to persevere. There's a weird guy in the neighborhood using dubious means to protect you, but you're pretty sure it's worth it in the end. In the end, it remains unclear to you whether finches and mockingbirds get along in real life.
 Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

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That made me feel better. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Weekend Events STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 08/22/2004 03:52:31 PM ----- BODY: This week and weekend have wrapped up nicely. Friday night we went to dinner with my boss and her husband, and had a great meal. Saturday my mom caught her flight home and Archi and I went to the Young Leadership Council's Role Model Awards Gala downtown. It was a black tie event, which isn't the type of thing we do too often. Archi got decked out in his dress blues, and I donned a black slinky dress he bought me when he was in Iraq. The dinner was a lot of fun (fun which was greatly enhanced by the pre-dinner open bar) and the food wasn't bad for a seated dinner for about 500. I got to catch up with the Dean of my alma mater, and a local appellate judge had an engaging conversation with my breasts (granted, they were at his eye level). We studiously avoided the silent auction, knowing that we need to save all of our extra cash for the closing on our house. We should be closing this week, if all goes well. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jenny EMAIL: jnkilpat@hotmail.com IP: 64.216.161.28 URL: DATE: 08/23/2004 04:29:46 PM Good luck on the closing! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 08/24/2004 09:42:38 AM hell yeah, just make sure you save a room in your new house for me and MJ ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Light Reading STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 08/26/2004 03:11:12 PM ----- BODY: Regular readers of kittysays know that the book club I belong to (the one comprised entirely of women) has made some, um, interesting book selections in the past. We read Steve Martin's novellas, assorted pieces of trash, and even a romance novel, for God's sake. It's been brutal. To the rescue came M's boyfriend. M is a founding member of book club, and is a smart chickadee. She's not an avid reader, but for that, she can be forgiven. She enjoys reading enough, I just don't think she'd done a great deal of pleasure reading prior to the inception of our book club -- nothing wrong with that. She mentioned to her boyfriend, a life-long avid reader, that we were trying to select a book for our next club meeting. I had suggested The Devil Wears Prada -- light, brief and not overly taxing. I figured it was a shoo-in (no pun intended). M's boyfriend says, "Oh, no, no, no. You need something post-modern." Um, problem. Anything post-modern likely involves thought, which isn't usually happening in our club. "You could get something post-modern, but approachable." Approachability is good, but subject matter the ladies will bother to read is even better. "I'll find some books for you that would lend themselves to good discussions." Clearly he misses the point. It's not like we actually discuss any of these books we pointlessly assign ourselves. He dutifully researched post-modern books on google, and came up with the following suggestions: End Zone, by Don DeLillo. He describes it as a "football/fear of nuclear holocaust novel". For my regular readers, you know I don't even understand the rules of football. I'd have to pass on this one. Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut. Amazon.com says of this book: "Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore." Although I've always wanted to read it, this might not be the pick for the nail-polish wearing, bikini-wax discussing all female book club. Just a guess. If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, by Italo Calvino. Amazon describes it as an "experimental text" (I can see some book club members already rolling their eyes), and M's boyfriend says, "some who read it hate it because of a lack of a "story". Great pick! Next victim......... Ultimately, we did use one of M's boyfriend's suggestions. Our next book club pick? White Noise, by Don DeLillo. An update on how we did attempting to both read and discuss this book will surely follow. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- PING: TITLE: payday advance URL: http://www.uccpp.org/payday-advance.html IP: 211.253.184.130 BLOG NAME: payday advance DATE: 06/15/2005 03:32:12 AM You may find it interesting to check out some helpful info about loans home loans ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Olympic Cheddar STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 08/28/2004 02:03:30 PM ----- BODY: 1. What's the cleverest word play you've read or made up? I'm drawing a blank on this one. 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Now I'll never have a reason to listen to local radio again. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jenny EMAIL: jnkilpat@hotmail.com IP: 64.216.161.28 URL: DATE: 09/01/2004 01:48:11 PM How's the house? ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Living in Triage STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 09/02/2004 09:00:04 PM ----- BODY: We're about 95% moved in. Appliances made it, furniture made it (thanks to the movers) and we're only missing a few boxes and "Rusty", Archi-Sapper's 1976 JMC pickup truck, complete with shag carpeting in the floorboard. If it were up to me, Rusty would be heading to the Pep Boys in the sky, but it ain't up to me. Rusty has a lot of sentimental value for Archi, and I get that. He puts up with my Hello Kitty collection. That said, our new house looks like a refugee camp. It is filled with brown cardboard boxes and trash bags. Although the boxes are labeled, they only have one word titles stating what room they go in, so you really don't know what you're gonna get until you open them. I found a trash bag full of clean underwear two days ago and thought I'd hit the jackpot. Now, if I could just find more than two pairs of shoes.......I've basically boiled my life down to the basics, and spend my evenings trying to find the things I absolutely need: deoderant, toothpaste, black shoes (which go with most anything), house keys, cute purses...... I am happy to report that, speaking of necessities, the high speed internet was installed this morning (requiring me to stay here until noon while the cable/phone/internet guy drilled holes in our walls and the dog growled at him). I think the plan for this weekend is to keep unpacking and finish up the necessities (i.e. getting a mailbox and some more blinds over all the windows). And yes, Pylorns, there is room for you and MJ to stay the next time you're in town. You'll get your own beds and everything! (we don't need you two sharing beds. That would come to no good end). We finally came to grips with the fact that we're now an old married couple. We spent last Friday night at Lowe's shopping for appliances. One Lowe's card and two hours later, and we're officially homeowners. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Granny Grump EMAIL: sshroyer@cei.net IP: 67.14.193.27 URL: DATE: 09/02/2004 10:22:47 PM You need to post a list of suggestions for Housewarming gifts! So excited for ya'll! Can't wait to see the new home of "the old married couple"! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Vauda EMAIL: vkane@dentonisd.org IP: 68.185.192.239 URL: DATE: 09/08/2004 01:09:01 AM Congratulations! I will probably be coming for Mardi Gras and will have to stop by and check your new place out! 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The one I remembered was my fifth wedding anniversary to Archi-Sapper (hooray! We're five!) We had a very nice dinner and watched the end of the LSU game. Romantic stuff. The second anniversary, which I forgot, was of this blog. I can't believe I've been rambling aimlessly in cyberspace for a year now. Time flies. And now for some Cheddar X: 1. Who's your favorite superhero? Mighty Mouse (although Wonder Woman comes a close second. She would've come in first had I been allowed to wear Wonder Woman underoos as a child, as I requested. My request may have been denied because I always called her "Wonder Wonam", and it's possible no one knew what I meant). 2. Who's your favorite villain? Snideley Whiplash. Love the 'stache. 3. What was your last brush with greatness? I'm drawing a blank here. 4. Who is the last celebrity you've seen in public? Although lots of celebs have homes in New Orleans, I can't say I've seen any of them. Guess they don't hang out at law firms. 5. What's the most important event on your horizon? My horizon is pretty limited at the moment (I try not to plan things too far in advance). Right now, I'm thinking going home and changing clothes looks promising. 6. What did you think of Bush's speech last night? I didn't watch Bush's speech. Although, he might qualify as one of my favorite villains.... ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: magik EMAIL: mistahmagik@wetwired.org IP: 216.78.134.191 URL: http://mistahmagik.wetwired.org DATE: 09/08/2004 04:28:09 PM Wasnt that a nailbiting game with LSU???? Congrats on the anniversary and the blog!!! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Helen EMAIL: everydaystranger@btconnect.com IP: 81.136.43.37 URL: http://everydaystranger.mu.nu DATE: 09/09/2004 05:01:23 AM Happy blogiversary and wedding anniversary babe! :) ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 4.230.228.75 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 09/14/2004 12:35:54 PM Happy Anniversaries. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Petr Smirnoff EMAIL: smirnoff@diving-tour.ru IP: 209.123.8.87 URL: http://diving-tour.ru DATE: 10/05/2004 01:48:38 AM Would you like to vodka tonight? ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Down at the Twist & Shout STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 09/13/2004 12:54:58 PM ----- BODY: They got a alligator stew and a crawfish pie A golf storm blowin’ into town tonight Livin on the delta’s quite a show They got hurricane parties every time it blows I like Mary Chapin Carpenter and all, but she's got to be kidding if she thinks New Orleanians have hurricane parties. Currently, Hurrican Ivan is eyeing the Gulf Coast and most everyone I know is obsessively watching the Weather Channel for updates and waiting for the local news stations to roll out poor Nash Roberts, our nearly-dead hurricane expert (anyone who lives in New Orleans knows you don't have to start worrying about a hurricane until you turn on the t.v. and see Nash). I can't give anyone around here a hard time about the weather watching, since anyone who knows me knows how much of a Weather Channel freak I am, rain or shine. My question is this: when is weather forecasting going to improve? They've been saying for the past week that Hurricane Ivan is going to make a turn toward the north and march toward Florida, and so far, all it has done is march west/northwest -- straight toward Louisiana/Mississippi/Alabama. I am no meteorologist, but even I can look at the map and see where this thing is headed. Tomorrow, I'm packing up my bags, my husband and my dog and heading for safer climes. Folks around here are going to have to have a hurricane party without me. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 4.230.228.75 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 09/14/2004 12:36:46 PM No party here, either. I'm going to ride it out here in Bush. Be safe. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Dan EMAIL: danryan490@msn.com IP: 128.205.108.74 URL: http://danryan490.blogspot.com DATE: 09/15/2004 07:48:32 AM I was down there for George, and have shared my stories with everyone - the highlight was when Nash Roberts brought out a dry erase board and said that N.O. would get the weaker side of the hurricane - the guys on the other staions with the Doppler 4000 or wahtever were laughing - not mentioning him by name, but puffing out their chests about their technology vs. the other guys "gut feeling" Needless to say, they were practically in tears when old Nash was right . . .godd luck to everybody down there. Don't forget to bring a hatchet . . . ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: RokynRobyn EMAIL: robyn@mikeandrobyn.net IP: 24.242.129.210 URL: DATE: 09/15/2004 09:24:26 AM Come to Austin. No hurricanes here. :) ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Petr Smirnoff EMAIL: smirnoff@diving-tour.ru IP: 209.123.8.87 URL: http://diving-tour.ru DATE: 10/05/2004 02:06:58 AM Would you like to vodka tonight? ----- PING: TITLE: Riding it out URL: http://raymondpward.typepad.com/rainman2/2004/09/riding_it_out.html IP: 66.151.149.25 BLOG NAME: Rain Man 2 DATE: 09/14/2004 06:23:30 PM With Hurricane Ivan headed in this general direction, Kitty and Bekah have evacuated, which is probably the smart thing to do. I'm staying and praying. I can't provide a rational or logical explanation for that decision. I suppose if the ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Odds and Ends STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 09/19/2004 01:39:03 PM ----- BODY: I can't figure out how Nola always gets lucky on these things (though it wasn't so lucky when Betsy paid a visit), but we were happily spared the wrath of Ivan. Archi-Sapper and I evacuated to Houston and spent a few days in my grandmother's condo. I love my grandmother, I really do, but she's losing it. I suppose when you're 78, you're allowed to be forgetful. There were a few amusing moments in the land of memory loss, however. On Wednesday we decided to get ice cream as an afternoon snack. My grandmother helpfully wanted to go buy a gallon at the grocery store, but neither Archi nor I wanted that because neither of us wants to eat a gallon of ice cream. So we suggested finding a Baskin Robbins. Sweet grandmother looked them up in the phone book, and then called ahead to let them know we were coming. I'm sure the folks at Baskin Robbins were grateful for the heads up. Before leaving, she was excited because she found some gift certificates to Baskin Robbins and insisted that we had to use them. Fine, no problem. We hopped in the car and zipped over there, only to have grandmother spend ten minutes worrying because she can no longer consume dairy products and needed to find a gelato or ice that she could eat. Mind you, they only had three flavors in the ices, but she had to pick the right one. We finally got all of our ice cream, and then she produced the gift certificates. I said, "No, really, let us buy this. It isn't going to break our bank and we'd like to do it." After she insisted on paying, I picked up the gift certificates and pointed out to her that they were actually for Marble Slab, and probably expired two years ago. Duly flustered, I escorted her to the tables and chairs to have a seat. While sitting and eating the ice cream and reviewing the errant gift certificates for where she could've gone wrong with this whole ice cream buying gig, she looked at the birthday card they came in and read the message from the person who gave them to her, which was signed by someone named Steve. She looked at me and said, "Who's Steve?" Needless to say, as much as I love her, I'm glad to be back in the land of people who are able to make decisions and remember (most) things. My biggest concern now is my eyesight. This morning (okay, it was afternoon) after I woke up I was rinsing my contact lenses and, since they're not made by Black & Decker, I managed to tear one of them. This wouldn't be an issue, but it was my last pair of contacts and my next eye doctor's appointment isn't scheduled until one week from Monday (the soonest he could fit me in). It normally takes one to two months to get my contacts ordered and in, since I wear astigmatic lenses and they have be special ordered. The good thing about this is that I actually see better out of my glasses than my contacts. I am convinced, after years of road-testing contacts, that even the astigmatic lenses don't correct an astigmatism better than glasses. The downside to all of this is that, well, I have to wear glasses. Archi-Sapper thinks they make me look cute, though, God bless him. I'm glad he likes them because this is going to be my "look" until October. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jenny EMAIL: jnkilpat@hotmail.com IP: 64.216.161.28 URL: DATE: 09/20/2004 08:37:59 AM Have you tried the gas permeable contacts? They work better for me than soft contacts or glasses. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 09/20/2004 09:10:13 AM ok, so now you have to take a pic of what you look like with glasses. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Petr Smirnoff EMAIL: smirnoff@diving-tour.ru IP: 209.123.8.87 URL: http://diving-tour.ru DATE: 10/05/2004 02:27:48 AM Would you like to vodka tonight? ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Ennui STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 09/21/2004 05:04:32 PM ----- BODY: Here I sit, on another telephone deposition. The folks who are running the show are in southern California. I am sitting at my desk, on a muted speakerphone, eating the candy my secretary just brought me and listening to this nonsense while I read blogs. The deponent is a pulmonologist -- not the most exciting creature life has to offer. He's a bright guy and is much easier to stomach today than he normally is when he testifies, since today he has not once referred to himself as a "world renowned physician" (he really has said that before). The deposition I'm on today is similar to many I've been on before, and the deponent tends to say the same things every time. Thus, I have a deposition plan now. This is my telephone deposition drill: I dial in, make my appearance on the record and make chit chat with the lawyers on the line, press the mute button, start a summary and begin surfing the internet until something comes up on the deposition that need my attention, at which point I punch the mute button, chime in, punch the button again and go back into blog catatonia. I don't claim to be the great American blogger. I'm hardly an A-lister, and have no claims to become one. Nevertheless, having blogged for over a year, I've decided I have enough experience to gripe about other blogs that get on my nerves. Here goes: 1. Law school blogs: Why are there so many bloggers who are law students? Is it because they have so much free time? Is it because they like to write? Is it because they like to whine? After trolling for new reads on Blogspot, I've found more than one blog containing some version of the following, "Law review is so haaarrrrdd." If you're on law review, you're likely to graduate and step into a six figure a year job (or soon to be six figures a year), so I don't want to hear it. Although there are some law school blogs that are good (Mixtape Marathon comes to mind), most suck. 2. Overly-specialized blogs Although these obviously appeal to small fragments of the population, I can't really get into a blog about bird watching, politics (I'm referring to blogs that only discuss politics and nothing else), religion, basket weaving, etc. This calls to mind a quote I recently heard (and I really don't remember where I heard it or I would cite the source, I swear) about NPR. NPR is really great, except when they decide to air 12 minute stories about a new combination of a tomato and a kumquat: who cares? 3. "Deep" blogs If you haven't seen one of these, count yourself lucky. These are painfully awful blogs that only serve as a medium for the writer to emote about senseless drivel: why we don't have world peace, why all their "friends" don't realize they're a misunderstood genius, why their dog walks out of the room when they walk in, etc. Enough. To quote Elaine on Seinfeld, I can't take any more gentle sobbing. 4. Biologs I call these biologs for lack of a better term. These are blogs where the blogger writes ad nauseaum about every detail of their lives. Do I blog about my life? Sure. Do I write about my life to the exclusion of anything else? Um, no. All bloggers (primarily those under the age of 20) who write blogs which contain lists or run-on excruciatingly boring paragraphs detailing every phone conversation had, e-mail sent, letter read, t.v. show watched, fight had and/or meal eaten should be beaten, stabbed and trampeled. Survivors should be prosecuted. I'd better get back to this deposition. I might have to hit the mute button soon. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jenny EMAIL: jnkilpat@hotmail.com IP: 64.216.161.28 URL: DATE: 09/22/2004 10:55:12 AM I love the mute button... very handy in conference calls. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Leah EMAIL: trixie_skips@hotmail.com IP: 64.48.234.2 URL: http://trixie_skips.livejournal.com DATE: 09/23/2004 02:00:22 PM I'm fond of discovering one of those biologs that combines inappropriate disclosure with deep yearning. When the blogger doesn't understand boundaries, it's like a train wreck; I can't look away. What out-of-line thing will she say next!?! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Vauda EMAIL: vkane@dentonisd.org IP: 68.185.192.239 URL: DATE: 09/23/2004 10:01:23 PM Mute button is great unless you're tech support, have been on the phone with a lady for 2 hours that probably doesn't even have her computer turned on, not press the mute button in enough, and tell your coworkers in great detail how you want to strangle her! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Petr Smirnoff EMAIL: smirnoff@diving-tour.ru IP: 209.123.8.87 URL: http://diving-tour.ru DATE: 10/05/2004 02:48:37 AM Would you like to vodka tonight? ----- PING: TITLE: refinance URL: http://www.uccpp.org/refinance.html IP: 148.244.150.58 BLOG NAME: refinance DATE: 06/15/2005 04:36:03 AM Please check some information in the field of loans home loans ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Interviews Redux STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 09/24/2004 09:58:26 AM ----- BODY: I wrote a post last year about doing on campus interviewing for a local law school and the hilarity that ensued. For non-lawyers, on campus interviewing (informally known as OCI) is a process where law firms send a couple of lawyers onto the school's campus to interview law students for summer clerkship positions at their firms. Some students actually do get summer jobs through this process (though when I was in law school I never did) and it is a nation-wide rite of passage. This year, the school that enrolls the students I interviewed asked us to conduct on campus interviews off campus because their facilities are currently under construction. This was a wonderful turn of events for those of us doing the interviewing, who only had to run into another office to conduct an interview instead of across town, and could get some work done in between interviews. I interviewed with a male partner who I didn't really know very well until yesterday. He's a great guy and we made a good interviewing team. We interviewed five people throughout the day, and the sixth candidate was our last, arriving at 4:00 p.m. I read the candidate's resume and it was excellent. She is in the top 5% of her class, has travelled the world and done some really interesting stuff. When she entered the office where we were holding the interviews, I nearly fell out of my chair. She was wearing a seersucker suit which had white and green pin stripes. The suit didn't fit very well, but for that, she can be forgiven. Underneath the suit (which was too casual for a job interview) she wore a pink negligee. No, I'm not joking. No blouse, just a negligee. It was pink silk with lace across the top and spaghetti straps. It perfectly matched her lipstick. She wore no pantyhose and shoes that matched neither the ill-fitting suit nor the negligee. It should be clear by now that I work for a defense firm. Defense firms generally are known for being conservative. If I were going to interview at one (and indeed, I've interviewed at many), I would err on the side of being too conservative. Not this woman. The guy who interviewed with me kept looking at me, looking at the floor and looking at the ceiling -- anywhere but at her. Note: if the interviewer can't even look at you during the interview, it isn't going well. I am absolutely floored that anyone would consider wearing their underwear in plain view during a job interview of any sort, much less one to practice law at a large defense firm. After she left, the other interviewer and I were talking and I said, "Was it my imagination, or was she wearing a negligee and no stockings?" and he said, "I didn't notice the lack of stockings. I was trying too hard not to look at her negligee." ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 09/30/2004 08:37:59 AM Think she expected to get interviewed by 2 men and not you lol... or she was hoping you were a lesbian! ----- PING: TITLE: Tuesday Linkfest URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/archives/001227.html IP: 63.247.72.82 BLOG NAME: CrabAppleLane Blog DATE: 09/28/2004 06:25:58 AM A Tuesday morning linkfest for your dining and dancing pleasure. A wonderful entry and great, great photo from Fred at Fragments from Floyd. An old friend has dicovered the delights of family blogging. It helps to have a delightful family.... ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Space Travel STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 09/27/2004 12:17:50 PM ----- BODY: This article explains how Virgin Airlines plans to introduce commercial space flights. This could take my fear of flying to a whole new level. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 4.230.210.97 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 09/29/2004 09:51:43 PM I'll take your extra tickets. I'll never be able to afford it. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 09/30/2004 08:35:09 AM Yeah see, in 50 years, it'll be common place and only cost the cost of a regular plane flight. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Petr Smirnoff EMAIL: smirnoff@diving-tour.ru IP: 209.123.8.87 URL: http://diving-tour.ru DATE: 10/05/2004 03:16:19 AM Would you like to vodka tonight? ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Blue Collar TV STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 09/29/2004 11:16:42 AM ----- BODY: Last night Archi-Sapper and I had a new experience -- we got to watch the taping of a television show. A friend of ours e-mailed me last week and said he'd snagged three tickets to a taping of Blue Collar TV at the House of Blues. I've not been a huge fan of the show (though I do like Jeff Foxworthy), but Drew Carey was the guest star, and I do like him (I'm a big fan of his show Whose Line Is It Anyway). There were two tapings last night, one at 6:00 and one at 10:00. We attended the 6:00 taping (10:00 tapings are past my bedtime on a school night). The guys recorded a few skits live in front of us, and in between skits we watched pre-recorded skits on the closed circuit t.v.'s. It was all well done, though watching the same skits more than once was a bit tiring. My favorite skit was a spoof of The Phantom of the Opera, where they had someone pretending to be Dolly Parton singing and one of the cast members was the Phantom of the Grand Ole Opry. There was also a cute spoof of The Apprentice. The episode is supposed to air on the WB network next Thursday night. Don't look for me or Archi in the crowd, though. We were upstairs and towards the back of the loft, so we didn't make it on screen. We did, however, make it to a nice after-show dinner at the HOB restaurant. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 70.112.118.10 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 09/29/2004 07:05:49 PM pretty darn cool. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Weekend Fun STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 10/01/2004 03:42:40 PM ----- BODY: Happy Birthday to Grey Headed Stranger. I no longer link to him on my blog because he no longer posts on his, but he's still a great guy and a fun relative. Mama kitty will be in town tonight for the weekend. I think we'll be painting baseboards and doors in the new house (exciting, I know) and maybe even watching the two movies I just got from Netflix. And if all goes well, I might even get the copies of the next three books my book club selected for October, November and December (this is for the book club that actually reads). Their selections? The Happy Hooker by Xaviera Hollander Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller; and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. You guessed it -- they're going with banned books this go 'round. The best part is that I bought them used on Amazon.com and it cost me $5.50 for all three! ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 70.112.118.10 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 10/03/2004 09:02:00 AM Huckk Finn a banned book? WTF? ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 10/06/2004 07:49:13 AM wtf... he needs to be added to MT blacklist... ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Leah EMAIL: trixie_skips@hotmail.com IP: 64.48.234.46 URL: http://trixie_skips.livejournal.com DATE: 10/07/2004 02:56:13 PM Netflix is like crack; I almost never watch tv anymore. I'm really into their Discovery channel DVDs lately, like the dinosaur movies (yes, I'm a 4-year-old boy, to steal the words of another). ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Time Well Spent STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 10/08/2004 05:21:50 PM ----- BODY: Some men are strange, but this takes the cake. I know. I've been remiss in my blogging. I should have some really great reason, but I don't. I did go to Florida on Tuesday and Wednesday for a deposition, and I'm happy to report that Florida is still there. I stayed in Destin Tuesday night (hey, somebody's got to do it) and headed to Defuniak Springs for the deposition Wednesday morning. When I checked into my hotel Tuesday night my room wasn't ready. They only had smoking rooms left (not what I had reserved since I'm allergic to cigarette smoke), but they assured me they could put an ionizer in the room and it would eliminate the smoke. However, it takes one hour for an ionizer to work. So, kicked out of my hotel, I went to the outlet mall to spend Archi-Sapper's money. I got a cute pair of shoes and two Christmas gifts before the hotel called me on my cell phone to tell me my room was ready. The only other excitement of the week was our fun with plumbing. I had our gas oven/range installed on Tuesday. The pipe leading from the wall to the oven was too long, so the oven was sticking out into the kitchen. I hired a plumber who came over and cut the pipe to size and installed the oven. That was Tuesday morning before I left for Florida. Archi didn't use the oven while I was gone, so it's inaugural cook was Thursday night. When we used it, I smelled gas. This concerned me, and my concern only increased Friday morning when we woke up and I still smelled gas. Archi didn't smell it, but he smelled it when he stepped outside. Between the two of us, we realized it was time to call Entergy. I had a hearing Friday morning so Archi called Entergy after I left and they came out to the house. They used their high tech gas gizmo and determined that we had a gas leak in the pipe that leads from the hot water heater in our shed to the house. Archi came inside to call our plumbing company and see if they could come over and fix it. After he hung up, the Entergy guy asked him who we were going to use to fix the line. Archi said we would use the people who installed the oven. The Entergy guy said, "I don't think I'd use them." While Archi had been on the phone, Entergy guy had been checking out the oven, and found a gas leak there where the plumbers hadn't tightened the connection with the wall. We were batting a thousand. Fortunately, the very nice Entergy guy tightened the oven connection (which he absolutely didn't have to do since they're not responsible for anything inside your house) and headed out on his way. A couple of hours and ten million dollars later and we are no longer leaking natural gas either into or outside of our home. Ah, the joys of home ownership. I'm now headed out to work to go make some money to pay for these fiascos. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: A Roof Over Our Heads STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 10/10/2004 12:55:24 PM ----- BODY: And the home maintenance saga continues. When we last blogged (this is the imperial "we"), the gas lines had been leaking and Archi found a plumber who fixed them. Now that the gas lines aren't leaking, the roof is. Before we closed on our house, we had a home inspection. The inspector (and the bank) insisted that the roof that covers our office -- an addition to the original structure of the house -- had to be replaced. The sellers hired a roofer and they replaced that part of the roof. It passed inspection and we thought nothing more about it. Until today. This morning, I was leaving to teach CCD (Sunday school to you non-Catholics) and noticed brown stains on the ceiling of the office. I summoned Archi-Sapper and we inspected them more closely. It appears that the tar from the roof is pushing through the ceiling in some places. Further, at 8:30 this morning there were indentations in the ceiling where you could tell water was accumulating from Tropical Storm Matthew. I had to head out and teach my class (which went well), so Archi-Sapper stayed behind and moved important stuff out of the office. He went to the hardware store and bought a ladder, buckets and visqueen. He used the visqueen to cover the roof (after he bailed out the standing water) and to cover the carpet in the office from dripping tar. The buckets are catching the dripping tar and water, as we now have a rather large crack in the middle of the ceiling with a hole in it, caused by the pressure from the standing water. *sigh* Archi also called the guy who sold us the house (he's a partner in a company that buys houses, fixes them up and then flips them for a profit). The guy was very nice, as he was when we bought the house, and said he's going to bring us the warranty papers for the roofing work and he's going to call the roofer and have them come over tomorrow to get started on repairing it. Tellingly, he said he had received a few other phone calls this morning from people who purchased property from him who had leaky roofs as a result of shoddy roof installations from this same guy. While I'm not thrilled about letting Mr. Magoo repair our roof (especially since he didn't get it right the first time), I'm also not interested in spending a bunch of money we currently don't have to get a competent roofer to come over and install a new roof. I repeat: Ah, the joys of home ownership. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Christoforo EMAIL: christoforo@gmail.com IP: 68.175.105.195 URL: http://christoforo.blogspot.com DATE: 10/11/2004 08:34:04 AM Hey, look on the bright side: you don't have to drop more on the roof, right? I'm having similar issues here in my NY apt. Only I haven't been able to get the management company to actually respond to my messages that part of the bedroom ceiling came down. I'm just glad it hasn't rained in a week and change. ----- PING: TITLE: Ides of October Linkfest URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/archives/001277.php IP: 63.247.72.82 BLOG NAME: CrabAppleLane Blog DATE: 10/15/2004 06:06:46 AM Except for the mega-bloggers, which I hardly ever read any more, I find the blogosphere a tad slow the last few weeks yet there is enough out here for a Friday linkfest. For your consideration, I offer these: Who’s not just a little bit envious of this... ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: I Don't Get It STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 10/12/2004 08:54:33 AM ----- BODY: It must be because I spend so much time studiously avoiding it. Much like avoiding eye contact with your teachers in school -- as soon as you fixate on some point near your shoe, they figure out what you're up to and call on you. My boss just e-mailed me and said that she thinks she I should really re-think my decision not to go to the DRI's Asbestos Medicine Program. After all, one of our major clients will be there and I haven't had a chance to meet him yet, several of our clients' insurers will be there, etc. She makes a good case (as usual). There's only one problem. It's in San Diego. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Christoforo EMAIL: christoforo@gmail.com IP: 216.165.96.24 URL: http://christoforo.blogspot.com DATE: 10/12/2004 09:35:27 AM It's in San Diego. And this is a problem... why? ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jennifer EMAIL: tulanegrad99@hotmail.com IP: 204.27.101.91 URL: http://kittysays.wetwired.org DATE: 10/12/2004 10:56:35 AM Because I'm afraid of flying. Keep up, Christoforo. :) ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Chad EMAIL: CPYoungblood@yahoo.com IP: 64.144.86.154 URL: DATE: 10/12/2004 12:55:42 PM AmTrak doesn't go to SD does it? Ugh. I feel for you. I like to fly, but I hate to pack. I have a packing phobia - never can decide what to take. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Christoforo EMAIL: christoforo@gmail.com IP: 68.175.107.113 URL: http://christoforo.blogspot.com DATE: 10/13/2004 08:44:42 AM Sorry, kittysays, I'm a little slow on the uptake. Must be the cold I got the other day. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: The Dick Cheney Approach to Truth Cheddar STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 10/13/2004 08:09:35 PM ----- BODY: I didn't make up the title of this post, I just like it. . . . 1. What's your favorite food? I will chew on just about anything that doesn't chew on me first. I love Tex-Mex, pot roast on Sundays, fast food from Backyard Burger, medium rare steaks, cantaloupes from Pecos, Texas, absolutely anything from Jacques-Imo's and any type of candy. 2. What Constitutional Amendment is the most important? This is like asking who my favorite Beatle is. Hell, I don't know. If pressed, I'd say it's a toss-up between the first and the fourth. 3. What needs to be added to the Amendments? Don't get me started. 4. Is truth relative? I don't care. That may make me sound shallow and stupid, but at the risk of sounding like Paris Hilton, it just doesn't matter to me. 5. Who's the best leader your nation has right now? I wasn't aware we had any active leadership at the moment. 6. What lets you sleep soundly at night? Archi-Sapper, who shuts the door when Miss Maggie starts barking too loudly. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 10/14/2004 09:16:58 AM intersting. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Charity trailer STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 10/14/2004 01:43:45 PM ----- BODY: I just received my latest e-mailed copy of "Hello Kitty's Sweet Happy News" (I love the Japanese) and in it, there was a link to Hello Kitty's latest charity auction to celebrate her 30th anniversary. Naturally I clicked the link, and the best item has to be this $40,000 Airstream trailer with a big Hello Kitty head painted on the side. The Judith Leiber coin purse is cute, cute, cute (though it's the most expensive coin purse I've ever seen), and the Michael Graves purrvilion is just weird (and besides, that springing kitty head is going to smack some child in the head at some point. That's a tort waiting to happen.) ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Chad EMAIL: cyoungblood@yahoo.com IP: 64.144.86.154 URL: DATE: 10/19/2004 11:25:37 AM I love the Thai (or is Thais? What is the plural for Thai????) Anyway... "Hello Kitty's Sweet Happy News" reminds me of a similar odd use of adjectives. I asked a server at a Thai restaurant what was a particular menu item. I was expecting "chicken" or "beef" or "fish." Instead he replied with "Spicey Spicey Hot Goddamn." This is no joke - I have witnesses. Needless to day, I opted for the "Grass Lemon Sweet Sweet" which tasted like a warm bowl of water with Lemon-Fresh Pledge. ----- PING: TITLE: personal loans URL: http://www.uccpp.org/personal-loans.html IP: 148.244.150.58 BLOG NAME: personal loans DATE: 06/15/2005 04:14:36 AM You are invited to check out some relevant pages in the field of loans home loans ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Slow weekend STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 10/18/2004 05:14:11 PM ----- BODY: My weekend had inauspicious beginnings with a three hour, wine soaked lunch at Mr. B's with my boss and paralegal (side note for New Orleanians: we tried to go to Galatoire's, but when we got there at 1:45 they told us that we would have to wait two hours for a table, so we ended up wandering over to Mr. B's). The evening ended by meeting Archi-Sapper at the local bar where he hangs out with his co-workers while I sipped Diet Cokes. One of his rather inebriated co-workers asked me what I was drinking, and when I said Diet Coke he responded, "You're going to have to drink a lot of those to get a buzz." I went to the firm's business meeting Saturday morning, which was a very nice, climate controlled nap (I still haven't figured out how coffee manages to wake me up when I want it to and lull me to sleep when I'd prefer a nap). The remainder of Saturday was pretty calm, ending with me watching the first part of season one of Gilmore Girls on dvd from Netflix. Somehow I feel like I should be embarassed to admit that I really liked it, and I'm not sure if that's because it's a cheesy chick-flick t.v. show or because it airs on the WB network (sorry, Andre). I'm not making any apologies for liking shows on the WB, since I also like Grounded For Life. As for chick-flick t.v. shows, well. . . My other weekend accomplishments include finishing The Happy Hooker (she's happy, all right) and discovering that my husband -- employee of a construction company -- now knows more about the criminal trial process than I do. He's been on jury duty for the past couple of weeks. He now calls me from his two hour lunch breaks and says things like, "Yeah, I didn't get picked up in round one of voir dire, but there's still round two before they start their strikes and then have an in camera conference." Okay, babe. Whatever you say. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jenny EMAIL: jnkilpat@hotmail.com IP: 64.216.161.28 URL: DATE: 10/19/2004 02:27:03 PM I've been watching the Gilmore Girls for years. Along with Dawson's Creek, Charmed, 7th Heaven, One Tree Hill, etc. I don't know why I love teen dramas and the WB, but I always seem to get hooked. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Shortcuts STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 10/19/2004 06:55:14 PM ----- BODY: This article talks about how lawyers aren't required to actually graduate from law school in order to practice law in some states. Basically, in some states you only have to complete one year of law school at an accredited school, and can then complete the other two years in a clerkship at a law firm. So, is this a good idea? I can't decide. On the one hand, I've long been a big proponent of not relying on law school grades to determine who will make the best lawyer. I wasn't on law review, and I tend to think I'm a pretty good lawyer. However, not completing law school does seem to make it far more difficult for you to pass the bar exam, which is a big problem. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 10/21/2004 07:50:43 AM it used to be that way in louisiana. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Book sales STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 10/21/2004 01:33:05 PM ----- BODY: The fact that Wal Mart won't be selling Jon Stewart's new book makes me want to buy it even more. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Regression Cheddar STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 10/21/2004 03:23:42 PM ----- BODY: Ten movies you'd watch over and over: Clue; High Fidelity; The Sound of Music; School of Rock; One Fine Day; Big Daddy; Italian for Beginners; most any John Hughes movie; Lost in Translation; The Game. Nine people you enjoy the company of: Hmmmm. I suppose I should start by saying that this list is by no means exclusive. Some people, in no particular order are: Archi-Sapper, Cosmic Sister Catherine, Cosmic sibling Rob, my shrink, my boss (seriously), Andre, Patrick, my in-laws (also seriously) and various business associates. Eight things you're wearing: My wedding ring, a watch, shoes, a skirt, a shirt, a bra, underwear and a smirk. Seven things on your mind: My fear of flying, whether this case I'm working on is going to go to trial, what Archi and I are going to do this weekend, whether I should keep reading the book I started or switch to another one, when I'm going to clean my office, what's going to happen on The Apprentice tonight and when our roof is going to be fixed. Six objects you touch every day: My bed, Archi-Sapper (does he count as an object?), my car, Pillow, Maggie and the ground. Five things you do every day: Talk on the phone, eat, read, listen to music and talk to Archi-Sapper. Four bands (etc) that you couldn't live without: I've played along this far but I can't narrow this down to four. Three of your favorite songs at this moment: My Prerogative by Brit. . . kidding. Really. How am I supposed to narrow this down? The pressure! I can't take it! Two people who have influenced your life the most: Archi-Sapper and my shrink. One person who you love more than anyone in the world: The person who has already been mentioned five times in this post. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: archi-sapper EMAIL: cdra489@yahoo.com IP: 24.252.75.150 URL: DATE: 10/22/2004 10:21:34 PM I love you the most, too! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 4.230.249.162 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 10/23/2004 12:35:14 PM Can do High Fidelity, Sound of Music, and Clue. I loved The Game but it was excruciating to watch. I might be able to sit through it again but not over and over. Anyone who can answer three or four is disconnected from the world. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Free iPods STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 10/23/2004 10:37:11 AM ----- BODY: Okay, I just signed up for this service through Fnlii's link on Wetwired, mostly because I want an iPod myself. I've been thinking of getting myself one for Christmas, but that isn't too likely to happen, what with all of our money going to our house. At any rate, if you're interested, sign up yourself through my referral link. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- PING: TITLE: personal loans URL: http://www.uccpp.org/personal-loans.html IP: 207.248.240.118 BLOG NAME: personal loans DATE: 06/15/2005 04:09:04 AM You may find it interesting to check out the sites in the field of loans home loans ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Hit By A Train STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 10/25/2004 10:03:35 AM ----- BODY: On the way in to work this morning I heard a re-broadcast of a live set by The Old 97's on XM radio. The music was great -- it was all their new stuff off their new cd Drag It Up. I was bummed to learn that I'll be missing their show this weekend -- a 10th anniversary tribute to their first album, Hitchhike to Rhome. The Old 97's have put out some good music over the years, but I still love their early stuff the most. And can I just say that I am still addicted to my XM Satellite Radio? How else could I hear a specially-recorded mini concert by the Old 97's on my way to work? Fabulous. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- PING: TITLE: payday advance URL: http://www.uccpp.org/payday-advance.html IP: 61.218.69.162 BLOG NAME: payday advance DATE: 06/15/2005 03:54:52 AM You can also check some helpful info about loans home loans ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: I Really Shouldn't Be Blogging Right Now STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 10/27/2004 10:20:37 PM ----- BODY: I just returned home from book club and we discussed The Happy Hooker. The meeting was even more animated than I expected. As usual we had copious amounts of wine (the main reason why I have no business blogging right now), great food and the host's home was intimidatingly lovely. However, those are all pretty typical attributes of book club meetings. What I wasn't expecting was the can of whipped cream which was passed around (it went along with the sex theme of the evening), the woman who lifted her shirt when the host was taking pictures (she had a bra on, but still) or the pantomiming of various sexual positions which were described in the book. All in all, it was an education. I've started Tropic of Cancer but am having trouble getting into it. I like it, but it's about as approachable as Laurence Durrell's Justine. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Sweet Tarts STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 10/31/2004 09:09:30 PM ----- BODY: So far we've only had one group of trick or treaters tonight, so it looks like Maggie and I will be finishing off the candy by ourselves. I'm taking a break from preparing for a deposition tomorrow. I'm attending the deposition of an industrial hygienist who I've deposed before. Hopefully things will go smoothly, though he has a problem about lying so you never really know what to expect. When I'm not reviewing deposition testimony, I'm shopping online. When we go to San Diego next week, we're flying Southwest. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to handle the four hour flight period, but I know I won't be able to take it without a movie of some sort. Archi-Sapper informed me that I'm not allowed to borrow his laptop (which has a dvd player), since he'll be taking it to California when he goes the week after I return. Although we initially thought about buying a G4 iBook, we decided to hold off on that and just purchase a portable dvd player. 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I'm sure there's a joke to be made about lightning striking a law firm, but I'm too tired to make it. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Chad EMAIL: cyoungblood@gjtbs.com IP: 64.144.86.154 URL: DATE: 11/03/2004 12:09:20 PM I am glad I am not working there anymore as my office was on the top floor next to the "sky-window" where the lightning must have hit near. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Winter Reading STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 11/04/2004 10:13:52 PM ----- BODY: I have such a long, long list of to-be-read books. I just don't read fast enough, or have enough free time, to get through my stack of books quickly enough to make headway. My latest pulp fiction addiction? The Stephanie Plum series of books by Janet Evanovich. Any book that features a protagonist who often (mistakenly) wears mismatched shoes is right up my alley. I'm eagerly awaiting Tom Wolfe's new book, I Am Charlotte Simmons, despite the mixed reviews it has already garnered. Wolfe is so adept at describing a time and place (when I first read Bonfire of the Vanities, I was shocked at how it was New York in the 1980's, as A Man In Full was Atlanta in the 1990's). I've read reviews of it which basically criticize Wolfe for being an old guy who tries really hard to "get" college students, but misses some critical points (like having his main characters listen to Britney Spears without irony). Without having read it, I'm inclined to think that he may have gotten some minor points wrong in Bonfire and A Man In Full, but that didn't hamper the overall story. We'll see how it goes with his latest missive. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 68.114.106.122 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 11/06/2004 09:11:21 PM I read Wolfe's The Right Stuff and loved it but I couldn't get anywhere with Bonfire and put it down. I still have it around here somewhere and will pick it up again one day. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: There's Always One STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 11/09/2004 09:40:51 PM ----- BODY: And I thought we already had one this year. I previously blogged about adventures in interviewing -- you remember, the woman who showed up for her job interview with our law firm wearing an ill-fitting, out of season suit, a negligee, no pantyhose and shoes that didn't match her atrocious outfit? Well, it gets better. We told the fashion-challenged woman thanks, but no thanks. However, we did interview several candidates we really liked. We typically have two interviewers conduct interviews of candidates from different schools, and then they rank the students they liked most and those students are invited back for a meet-and-greet cocktail party. That gives them a chance to meet several lawyers and gives us a chance to see how they do in social situations. From there, we select which candidates will receive offers for summer clerkships. We did this. It all seemed to be going well (it always does). Early in the day of the interviewing I did this fall, I interviewed an appropriately dressed woman who really seemed to have her act together. She had an interesting background, was articulate and seemed interested in the firm (did I mention she was appropriately dressed?) We invited her back to the cocktail party and she did well there, too. We sent her a letter and extended her an offer for a clerkship for next summer. In the letter, we asked that she respond by October 15. On October 15, she called and asked for some extra time to think about it, and asked if she could let us know by October 18. We said that was no problem -- we know we're not the only game in town, and good students often have several offers. October 18 came and went and we haven't heard from her since. Naturally, we called her. Her phone had been disconnected. We e-mailed her at the e-mail address listed on her resume. Our e-mails went unreturned. We called the law school where she is a student. They assured us that no, she had not been hit by a bus, but they couldn't say more than that. Ultimately, we sent her a letter rescinding our offer and have moved on to more, um, responsive pastures. It really slays me when there are so many great law students out there who would love the opportunity to work for our firm and we end up pursuing the yo-yo who is incapable of telling us she isn't interested. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- PING: TITLE: home loans URL: http://www.uccpp.org/home-loans.html IP: 148.244.150.52 BLOG NAME: home loans DATE: 06/15/2005 04:19:15 AM Please visit the sites dedicated to loans home loans ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Cheddar X Word Association STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 11/13/2004 09:47:25 AM ----- BODY: Before we begin, an announcement: Archi-Sapper has been having numerous technical difficulties with his blog, which Pylorns has been hard at work helping him correct. While Pylorns and Archi redesign his blog, he has started an interim blog at: http://lightbluecollar.blogspot.com. Fluffy bunnies - Peeps Coffee - beans Flat tax - ugh Fair and open - honest Truth - really Justice - courts America - free The Culture of Fear - Mao Honesty - hard Freedom - cheap Comfort - blanket Soothing - bath Healing - balm The Future - hazy ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Christoforo EMAIL: christoforo@gmail.com IP: 68.175.105.195 URL: http://death-and-taxes.blogspot.com DATE: 11/14/2004 08:59:49 PM My own associations include: flat tax - unworkable the culture of fear - Bush II comfort - grilled-cheese-sammich ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Wealthy Animals STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 11/15/2004 10:11:12 AM ----- BODY: This article explains how some beavers in Louisiana found a sack of cash stolen from a casino and used the money to build a dam. How come I never find sacks of money lying around? ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Double wide library STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 11/17/2004 12:23:21 PM ----- BODY: While I'm pleased that Bill Clinton chose to build his presidential library in Little Rock, I do have to agree with those who have said that it might not do as much to elevate Arkansas in the eyes of others since the library resembles a double wide trailer on stilts. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jenny EMAIL: jnkilpat@hotmail.com IP: 64.216.161.28 URL: DATE: 11/17/2004 01:48:28 PM Every time I drive by it I think the same thing. My favorite is that it's supposed to be "a bridge to the future"-- a bridge that doesn't cross half of the Arkansas River. It's pretty cool to have all the activities and ceremonies going on here this week. Of course, I might change my mind when I have to deal with the downtown traffic tomorrow. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Early birds STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 11/18/2004 09:18:27 PM ----- BODY: The stampede started around 11:40 today. If you didn't hear it, I'm shocked. Today was my firm's Thanksgiving potluck lunch. After three years of working at the firm, I've never made it to one (today included). I wasn't sure of the protocol, so I called my paralegal around 11:30 and asked for instructions. She said, "There'll be a line so be prepared to wait, pace yourself because there's lots of food and don't get there too early to pounce on the good stuff or you'll be talked about later." Good advice. I showed up around noon with another paralegal (yes, I cheat on my paralegal occasionally, but she forgives me. I think.), my secretary and another attorney. The line for the lunch was so long it went down the hall, turned and wrapped around the building. I gave up and went down the street to the deli for a sandwich, not too concerned that I'd missed anything. After lunch I asked my paralegal how it went. She said it was good -- she only had to wait about 25 minutes to get into the conference room to get some food and she only got one helping of a dish that tasted like feet. I'd rather gamble at a casino. I'm a bit more conservative with my meals. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Google Scholar STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 11/19/2004 03:01:10 PM ----- BODY: Here's a tip for the kids out there: If you're looking for scientific/medical articles on the internet, look no further than Google Scholar. Excellent stuff. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 11/22/2004 03:35:12 PM sounds like a plan. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Holidays STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 11/28/2004 01:45:58 PM ----- BODY: Thanksgiving went pretty smoothly this year. We had the fam in town (at least, my fam) and they were fairly well behaved. Mom cooked enough food for us to fill up and have some left-overs, but nothing too unmanageable (not like three years ago when we ended up with approximately 10 pounds of leftover turkey). We went to the movies Thursday night and saw National Treasure (a good movie to see if you aren't interested in thinking too much) and also went to Celebration in the Oaks in City Park, which was nice. Friday we went to the horse races at the Fairgrounds and had a good time. I'm now at work trying to catch up. I can't believe Christmas will be here so soon. Our firm's tree trimming party is Thursday and the firm's Christmas party and our department's Christmas lunch follow soon after. And with Mardi Gras so early in 2005, before we know it it'll be time for JazzFest. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 12/01/2004 05:28:36 PM sounds like a good holiday.. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Hot Cheddar STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 11/29/2004 09:17:14 AM ----- BODY: 1. Hottest place you've visited? Lived? The hottest place I've visited would be Mexico, and the hottest place I've lived would be Dallas. 2. Song that gets you hot? Anything by Peter Gabriel. 3. Person other than Signifigant Other that gets you hot? Vin Diesel -- I know that's cheesy. I don't care. 4. Hottest movie scene? There was a scene in American Pie that was surprisingly sexy. Beyond that, I don't get too worked up over scenes in movies. 5. Hottest sexual experience? That question is wayyyy beyond the scope of this blog. 6. Hottest non-sexual experience? Attending our wedding reception in my 50 pound dress, when one of the generators went out that fueled the air conditioner. It was early September in Dallas. That got pretty warm. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jenny EMAIL: jnkilpat@hotmail.com IP: 64.216.161.28 URL: DATE: 11/29/2004 09:36:36 AM It was warm without the 50 pound dress, I can only imagine what it was like for you. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Christoforo EMAIL: christoforo@gmail.com IP: 68.175.105.195 URL: http://death-and-taxes.blogspot.com DATE: 11/29/2004 10:51:31 AM Dallas is hotter than NOLA? ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jennifer EMAIL: tulanegrad99@hotmail.com IP: 204.27.101.91 URL: http://kittysays.wetwired.org DATE: 11/29/2004 02:25:49 PM Dallas is much hotter than Nola. Dallas regularly has many days with three digit temperatures in the summers. Although Nola has a lot of humidity, it is difficult to escape 110 temperatures. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 12/02/2004 08:57:52 AM i think i'd take dallas over NOLA, i'd rather avoid the extra humidity. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: PolyphonicSpreeCultMember EMAIL: mj@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: DATE: 12/03/2004 09:26:24 AM you can keep the humidity, although dallas has humidity too, it aint as bad as it is on the gulf! but Nola also has a gulf breeze that is almost always blowing, a benifet of being right on the water. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 68.114.106.122 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 12/05/2004 10:15:06 PM I've been in Dallas at peak temperature in August and I think New Orleans is hotter. But it's close. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: EA Games STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 12/02/2004 01:45:03 PM ----- BODY: Salon has an interesting article about EA Games and its disgruntled workers. *Note: you may need to watch a brief advertisement to be able to read the article for free. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 12/03/2004 08:22:38 AM it wants to register an stuff - can you just post the article? ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Hand to Hand Combat STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 12/04/2004 07:53:29 PM ----- BODY: After I returned to my office on Friday afternoon, having spent the entire morning in court, I slumped in my paralegal's exta chair and said, "You know, the only thing I learned from my hearing this morning is that when you go to CDC, you never know what you're going to get." I got to Court around 9:15 Friday morning. We had received a phone call from the judge's law clerk the day before, telling us that our motion would be last on the docket, so we didn't need to show up until 10:00, even though our motion had been set for 9:00. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm obsessively early, and I'd never appeared before that judge before, so I wanted to get a feel for how she would rule on other motions before I got up there and opened my mouth. The judge finally got around to listening to our motion at 11:45. We all scooted through the little gate in the wooden divider (I know these fixtures of courtrooms have names, I just don't know what they are) and crowded around the small counsel tables. After we made our appearances, we sat down and I settled into my seat, confident that the defendants were going to lose this motion. I thought we would not only lose, but go down in a fiery ball of flames. The hearing was underway when plaintiff's counsel --a very nice, fairly calm guy --was in the middle of his brilliant argument, and went to make his big pitch to the judge. With a flourish, he pulled a piece of paper from his large stack of papers, waved it around and said, "Your honor, to illustrate my point, I have a copy of an e-mail I sent to Dr. R, defendants' expert witness, just yesterday, as well as his response." At that point, he could've said that he was selling his body for parts for all anyone cared. There was a collective gasp among the defense lawyers, and we all said, almost in unison, "You e-mailed our expert and didn't tell us?!" The poor man looked stricken. He looked like a poor little dog looks when you step on its tail -- that sad, "How could you do this to me?" look. He stammered and stumbled over a vague explanation until the judge said, "Mr. X, let me caution you not to contact any of defendants' experts without at least having the courtesy to let them know you're doing so." He (bravely or stupidly, depending on how you look at it), said, "Judge, if you'll point me to the rule that says I can't, then I won't, but...." and the judge responded, "Mr. X, let me suggest that you shut up." He weakly responded, "Okay." I was still reeling from this piece of information, stunned that this seasoned litigator was trying to argue with a judge who had just admonished him in open court, when things got really weird. The judge announced that she was finding in our favor -- really! I was so shocked, had I been the only defense lawyer there, I would've said, "Thank you!" and run away before she changed her mind. Naturally, others don't see things the way I do. The other defense lawyers, and the previously scolded plaintiff's lawyer, started bringing up things to the judge which had nothing to do with anything. Why are people so stupid? Why do they keep arguing after they've won? Why do they keep arguing after they've lost? The judge isn't going to change her mind. *sigh* Well, the judge wanted none of that, and finally got so sick of it she kicked us out of her courtroom. She yelled, "Next case! Get out, folks! Call the next case!" Don't be fooled -- the judge is very nice. She had to yell to be heard over the din of these idiots. We all put our tails between our legs and scurried into the hallway where it got ugly. Two defense lawyers in particular were giving the plaintiff's lawyer a really hard time about the e-mail revelation. "Don't EVER contact my experts without my permission!" "That is soooooo unethical!" "What is WRONG with you?" It was very mature. This continued, in loud, threatening tones, until we reached the elevator. At that point, it completely disintegrated. One particularly feisty defense lawyer said, "Mr. X, if you EVER contact one of my experts again without my permission, I'm filing a motion for sanctions." He walked up to her, got one inch from her face and said, "Oh really?", to which she responded, "Oh yes. Really." They dramatically stared at each other for a minute or two, and I was thinking, "What is this, Bring it On?" We all got into the tiny elevator together and the shouting continued. It was more of the same: "Well, Mr. X, I was hoping we could work together on things, but apparently NOT." "I would work with you defense lawyers if I hadn't been lied to." "We didn't lie to you! You snuck around behind our backs!" etc, etc. This reached such a fever pitch that one poor soul who was stuck in the elevator with us -- who has nothing to do with our case -- turned around and told them to shut up. 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Last year, I got a wonderful belated Christmas present -- Archi-Sapper came home from Iraq for 15 days of R&R. 5. What gift are you most proud of giving to someone else? The Playmobil castle I bought Archi-Sapper last year was pretty cool -- I can't really think of any grand gifts I've bestowed. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 12/09/2004 04:08:01 PM and what are you getting me for chrismas?!!? ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jennifer EMAIL: tulanegrad99@hotmail.com IP: 204.27.101.91 URL: http://kittysays.wetwired.org DATE: 12/10/2004 08:27:43 AM Py, I'm getting you lots of love and affection. :) ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Deck the Halls STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 12/10/2004 04:08:48 PM ----- BODY: I am trying to listen intently to this telephone deposition, but the pounding in my head isn't helping. I wish I could say that the headache is a product of being overserved at last night's Christmas party, but the truth is far from it. The party was sadly lame. It used to be that our firm's Christmas parties were legendary with all kinds of wild behavior resulting in an overactive rumor mill spreading stories for weeks afterward. In fact, there were only three noteworthy events that came out of last night's party: (1) I got to see the guy who works in the mailroom who has a closed head injury (no, I'm not joking) dance like John Travolta to the song "Stayin' Alive" (it's a Christmas party tradition at the firm, but it isn't the same since he no longer wears his white suit, for reasons that aren't entirely clear to me); (2) I got to see the guy who works in the mailroom who's autistic sing a love song to the human resources director who he adores (another firm tradition); and (3) a homeless guy outside the party asked me to marry him. After I turned him down and related the story to my co-workers who were inside the party venue, they told me I had made a grave error in turning him down. They explained that homeless guys don't have any baggage (I assume they mean physical baggage, but that wasn't entirely clear to me, either), don't have debts (that they pay, anyway), don't make big demands and are pretty much happy with whatever you have to offer since they have so little to start with. I'm starting to think I need to reconsider my options here...... ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 68.114.106.122 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 12/12/2004 02:37:54 PM Like a lot of other people, they're almost perfect until you marry them. Homeless guys/girls or no different. On the bright side (For me, anyway), maybe there is hope for some of us future homeless guys after all. 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John Doe New Orleans ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Home Non-Ownership STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 01/12/2005 06:01:32 PM ----- BODY: Archi-Sapper and I received a letter yesterday with some surprising news. We don't own our house. No, I'm not kidding. You know the house we bought four months ago? The one I blogged about? The one we shopped for, found, bid on, closed on and moved into? The one that had the gas leak that almost killed us and the ceiling that caved in during the storm? Yes, that house. We don't own it. Or all of it, anyway. Apparently we have a title problem (so does Prince, but that's really a title problem of a different sort). As I have learned over the past 24 hours, we purchased our house from a company we'll call ABC. ABC is in the business of buying houses, renovating them, and selling them for a profit. 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Sadly, she never bothered to apprise anyone of that small fact. Ultimately it appears that we now own most of our house, with this creditor owning a portion of it that they no longer want. I believe they would like to have someone buy out their interest (wouldn't we all?), but that someone will not be me (nor will it be Archi-Sapper. Or our dog. She's stingy with her money). Happily, I spoke with the title company today and they've assured me that our home is not in danger and that they will take care of things. Even if they can't, I'm not going to lose (too much) sleep over this, as we wisely purchased title insurance, which is designed exactly for this situation. 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When I was younger (pre-sixteen) I would work at my mom's office, as she didn't have the same issues with child labor laws that the stores at the nearby mall did. Later, I worked at Express in a strip shopping center. Otherwise, I spent time with friends, hung out at Six Flags, made mix tapes and talked on the phone. Did you take the bus? Nope. Who did you have a crush on? Oh, that list is too long to include in this one small blog, and probably too long for me to recall in its entirety. Did you fight with your parents? Sure. Who didn't? Who did you have a celebrity crush on? This list was shorter than the list of real people I had crushes on. I can remember the junior high-era celebrity crushes much more clearly, I think because I started focusing on real boys in high school. Right now I can't remember anyone. Did you smoke cigarettes? Nope. Still don't. I'm allergic. Did you lug all of your books around in your backpack all day because you were too nervous to find your locker? I was never too nervous to find my locker, I could just never remember the combination, and the few times I could remember the combination, I couldn't open it, anyway. Did you go to prom? Yep. I went sophomore, junior and senior years. Where did you think you'd be at the age you are now? I thought I'd be a kick-ass lawyer (check), but thought I'd be single and living in a larger city. Had I taken that path, I would be seriously neurotic. Well, more so than I am now, anyway. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Death & Taxes EMAIL: christoforo@gmail.com IP: 216.165.112.202 URL: http://death-and-taxes.blogspot.com DATE: 02/04/2005 09:15:09 AM Gee, isn't the Catholic School uniform thing popular? As for neurotic, I don't think you are. And yes, most big-city lawyers are neurotic. Hell, you should just see this place! New York is the neurosis capital of the world, I think! ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Come Monday STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 02/11/2005 10:50:15 PM ----- BODY: Nine years of grade school/junior high school, four years of high school, four years of college and three years of law school -- what does that add up to? Not much, apparently. This week, I had to fly solo. That's right, solo. No, Archi-Sapper wasn't out of town. No, I wasn't out of town (well, I did go to Atlanta for a business meeting on Wednesday, but that was a brief sojourn). It was worse than that. My secretary and paralegal went out of town. At the same time. When they broke the news to me that they were going to be on vacation during the same week, I made a grave miscalculation. I mistakenly thought I'd be able to manage without them. I thought to myself, "I can do this. I'm smart. I'm educated. I know how to use the computer and the phone. Sometimes even at the same time. I rock." By hour three in the office without support staff, I was beginning to resemble one of the fledgling half-wits on The Apprentice (and while we're on the topic: can someone explain to me why Bren thought it was a good idea to shoot a pornographic commercial of gay men in order to sell body wash to women? I'm still scratching my head over that one.) I picked up my phone no fewer than three times in order to ask my secretary to type a letter for me. By phone call number three, it finally sunk in that she wasn't going to type my stinkin' letters. I then realized I needed to send a fax to one of my local counsel. No problem -- that's a job I can handle! I tried to feed my papers into the fax machine, and it began beeping at me. Angrily. This was not a happy fax machine. Well, no problem. We have a general services department on the second floor of our building, and they can handle faxes, copy jobs, court runs, etc. I decided I'd just send it to them. Then I realized I have no idea who runs the general services department, or where they live in our building (they moved during our construction). Ever the intrepid lawyer, I looked up their number in the company directory and called them. After they stopped laughing hysterically at me, they managed to sputter out some directions to their lair. I wandered downstairs and found myself in a construction zone. I was standing on a sawdust-filled floor, surrounded by rebar and visqueen. I finally saw a familiar face, who guided me over to the copy/fax room. I surrendered my documents to the guy working behind the counter, who asked, "Did you get these documents from Ms. Kitty?" I looked at him quizzically and said, "I am Miss Kitty." He looked surprised and said, "What are you doing down here?" to which I replied, "I've been asking myself the same question." I made it back to my desk (without benefit of a map from the internet, thank you very much), only to discover that I had four days of mail stacked on my secretary's desk, which was about to collapse of its own weight. I sifted through it and found my ten pound stack, and settled into my office to sort through (read:pitch) half of it. It was then that I started getting the phone calls. These are the phone calls my secretary normally screens for me. There were the typical calls -- solicitors, wanting me to change my firm's long distance service (heck, I can barely make a long distance phone call, much less change our service provider), buy books for our library or somehow spend my firm's money. Then I had the calls from debt collection companies saying certain debtors had listed me as their bankruptcy attorney -- never mind that I don't do bankruptcy work -- and they wanted to have long winded discussions about how those crazy debtors could've possibly come up with my name. And then came the legitimate calls from other law firms -- people wanting copies of pleadings I'd filed, wanting to confirm depositions, wanting documents, etc., etc. By the time I finally got these people off the phone, had thrown out half my mail and given up on my search for a decent Diet Coke, I'd had it. I shut down my laptop, grabbed my purse and ran for the door. If I'd only remembered to bring my cell phone with me, I would've had it made. I don't think I'm going to make it until Monday. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- PING: TITLE: payday advance URL: http://www.uccpp.org/payday-advance.html IP: 207.248.240.119 BLOG NAME: payday advance DATE: 06/15/2005 03:25:30 AM Please visit some information about loans home loans ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Crop circles STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 02/16/2005 02:32:00 PM ----- BODY: Gotta love this crop circle (thanks to Ernie for the link). ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Income STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 02/18/2005 08:49:51 AM ----- BODY: This story from yesterday's Times Picayune discusses how a law firm where some friends of mine used to work had to close its doors last year when the partners discovered their CFO had embezzled around $770,000 from the firm over a 20 year period. The embezzlement left the firm deeply in debt and was particularly disheartening because it couldn't have happened to a nicer group of lawyers. My favorite part of yesterday's article is this: In addition to charging Lee with defrauding the firm, the U.S. attorney's office nailed him for not reporting taxes on the stolen money, or on his legitimate earnings. "While Lee effectively stole the $769,806.72 from the firm over a period of years, this money is considered income to Lee pursuant to the United States Tax Code," prosecutors wrote to the court in explaining the charges. So, earnings from embezzlement are reportable income. Huh. Who knew? (besides Death & Taxes -- I'm talking about what normal people know about the Tax Code) I'm gaining new respect for the IRS. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Death & Taxes EMAIL: christoforo@gmail.com IP: 24.7.70.111 URL: http://death-and-taxes.blogspot.com DATE: 02/20/2005 06:10:45 PM Al Capone was ultimately nailed, not for his criminal activity, but for tax evasion for failing to report the proceeds of the criminal activity. It should come as no surprise that this guy got busted for tax evasion as well. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 209.16.84.22 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 03/02/2005 10:10:35 AM I knew that. It was the subject of an LA Law episode a few years ago. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: My Squirrel Name STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 02/22/2005 09:26:44 PM ----- BODY: is Major Nutless. Truer words have never been spoken. Thanks to Jim for the link. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: DATE: 02/23/2005 02:41:45 PM Bushy Dangleberry ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: fnliii EMAIL: no@email.com IP: 70.113.199.100 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 02/26/2005 11:35:11 AM Sergeant McNutt. That's right. Sergeant McNutt. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Suzanne EMAIL: suzanneward777@hotmail.com IP: 67.101.66.43 URL: http://raymondpward.typepad.com/ DATE: 03/08/2005 09:01:30 PM Lt. bushycheecks. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Cheddar X STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 02/24/2005 04:39:32 PM ----- BODY: 1. What word or words do you just love? Interstices. 2. What word or words make you want to tear your hair and run up and down the street with your fingers in your ears going "Lalalalalalalala"? When I was little, I hated the word "tummy" (yeah, I don't know either). Now I can't say I'm word averse. 3. What words do people commonly misuse that make you mad/crazy? Mostly legal terms (the use and misuse of which have been covered extensively at Minor Wisdom), but my biggest pet peeve is when people refer to preemption when they mean peremption and vice versa. 4. What's the prettiest word you know? Serendipity. 5. What word sounds like what it means? Splat. 6. What word or words just make no sense? (I.e., a word like "whatsoever" is a pretty bizarre word when you look at it). Commencement. Any word that means both beginning and ending is too out there for me. 7. What words soothe you? Lullaby. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 70.112.226.175 URL: DATE: 02/26/2005 09:49:07 AM wow, not bad redo of the site. you need to fix something though I keep getting Your comment submission failed for the following reasons: Your comment could not be submitted due to questionable content: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: kitty EMAIL: tulanegrad1@yahoo.com IP: 24.252.95.222 URL: http://kittysays.wetwired.org DATE: 02/26/2005 11:48:32 AM Yes, I had an aggressive Blacklist problem. I am working on fixing it. I couldn't even comment myself for a while! ----- PING: TITLE: personal loans URL: http://www.uccpp.org/personal-loans.html IP: 206.49.180.140 BLOG NAME: personal loans DATE: 06/15/2005 03:57:38 AM Please check out the sites about loans home loans ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: What, This Old Thing? STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 02/26/2005 11:19:18 AM ----- BODY: I've been contemplating a redesign for a while and finally got around to completing it. The biggest impediment to the task was my lack of knowledge of html (beyond the basics), CSS and anything remotely relevant to the task. That, and I still haven't a clue how to upload photos onto my site (the guys at Wetwired are thanking God for that, since I don't hog all their server space). At any rate, I found this fabulous design through Janelle's site and she hooked me up. She put all of the MT code into the files and even sent me a readme file to explain the installation process (which I showed to Pylorns when he did the installation for me :)). So we're now off and running. If you're viewing this page through Mozilla Firefox, it looks a bit weird at the moment -- I'm going to attempt to figure out what's going on. You can get the full effect of the design through IE, for now. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Ryan C. EMAIL: sharp.eyed@gmail.com IP: 69.169.50.153 URL: http://sharp-eyed.us/ DATE: 02/26/2005 12:53:35 PM Looks OK in Firefox. The banner at the top appears to be cut off. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: kitty EMAIL: tulanegrad1@yahoo.com IP: 24.252.95.222 URL: http://kittysays.wetwired.org DATE: 02/26/2005 02:29:54 PM There is supposed to be a row of books going across the top, but I can't see them when I view the site through Firefox. Not sure what's up with that. Otherwise, it looks correct. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Death & Taxes EMAIL: christoforo@gmail.com IP: 68.175.105.195 URL: http://death-and-taxes.blogspot.com DATE: 02/26/2005 03:17:33 PM I don't think it looks the least bit weird on Firefox. I think it's schnifty! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Ray EMAIL: rainmanward@earthlink.net IP: 67.101.69.21 URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~rainmanward/ DATE: 02/26/2005 07:56:47 PM Well, the look through Firefox is much much different from the look in IE. In either case, I miss the kitty with the Tweety Bird hat. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 02/28/2005 09:05:49 AM I like the fact the comments are fixed now. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 209.16.84.22 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 03/02/2005 10:09:27 AM Looks good to me in Firefox. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Finishing_Law_School EMAIL: Finishing.Law.School@gmail.com IP: 68.43.30.177 URL: http://FinishingLawSchool.blogspot.com DATE: 03/03/2005 09:50:10 PM I still barely know how to modify my blog. Wish I could add links or something of that nature. I suppose I'll figure it out eventually. 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My paralegal just brought me the SIX BOXES of girl scout cookies I ordered about a month ago. What was I thinking? Six boxes. I must've been hungry when I placed that order. And true to form, five of the boxes are Samoas. Yum. So much for weight loss. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 03/02/2005 10:06:43 AM lol oh man... ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 209.16.84.22 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 03/02/2005 10:12:04 AM I have limited myself to only buying candy or cookies from the kids and not the parents. That has cut my fairly hefty consumption in half. I had to. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Get Moving STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 03/04/2005 09:41:04 AM ----- BODY: I read an article in Prevention magazine last night -- the last bastion of all things healthy (no clue why I'm reading it, but that's a topic of another post), and the article was about the benefits of walking. I'm well aware of the benefits, as I try to go on long walks several times a week around our neighborhood, usually with Miss Maggie (that's a dog who loves to walk). However, the article also had a training schedule to help people prepare to walk a marathon. This really sounds like a great idea. I've never considered entering marathons before, as I absolutely hate running. It is difficult to measure the depths of my hatred for running. But walking? That I can do. I obviously couldn't walk a marathon, or even a half-marathon, without proper training, but the article includes a six-month training schedule that gives details on what to do. I looked online and saw that there's a marathon in Baton Rouge in December, so I'd have plenty of time to train for that. Sadly, I won't have time to enter the next marathon in New Orleans, scheduled for later this month. Any tips from anyone who's done this before? ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Suzanne EMAIL: suzanneward777@hotmail.com IP: 67.101.66.164 URL: http://raymondpward.typepad.com/ DATE: 03/07/2005 07:23:24 PM Good for you. I tried to train to walk a marathon recently. Got up to about 12 miles and deceided this was too much time...over 4 hours. I just didn't have the "extra" time. Shelved the idea until after retirement, Since this is in 1/2006, if you do a marathon that year, let me know. I'm a great walker. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: kitty EMAIL: tulanegrad1@yahoo.com IP: 24.252.95.222 URL: http://kittysays.wetwired.org DATE: 03/08/2005 07:33:44 AM I will definitely let you know. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't actually do it unless I had someone along with me as encouragement. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Suzanne EMAIL: suzanneward777@hotmail.com IP: 67.101.66.43 URL: http://raymondpward.typepad.com/ DATE: 03/08/2005 09:00:08 PM Sounds great. Maybe a marathon for both of us in 2006? 2007? ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: kitty EMAIL: tulanegrad1@yahoo.com IP: 24.252.95.222 URL: http://kittysays.wetwired.org DATE: 03/09/2005 06:22:59 PM I'm going to shoot for 2006, but we'll see how it goes! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Baby Lawyer EMAIL: mystenigmary@gmail.com IP: 209.128.246.236 URL: http://legalmystenigmary.blogs.com DATE: 03/10/2005 11:13:58 AM That's a great idea! I haven't ever walked a marathon, but check out the "Stay of Execution" blog (not sure if it's "wrong" to post the URL here, but if you do a Google search for that phrase, you'll get the right page). The author's done two and talks alot about her training gear, schedules, etc. Good luck! ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Airline food STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 03/06/2005 10:12:04 PM ----- BODY: After perusing this site, I'm feeling much better about my cooking abilities. I really love the old pics from Braniff Airlines. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 03/09/2005 04:12:09 PM course you have to fly first class to get any of that. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Live Music Cheddar STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 03/11/2005 09:09:49 AM ----- BODY: 1. What was your first concert? Michael Jackson, the Bad tour. I was in seventh grade, and went with a friend of mine and her mom. I think her mom liked it more than we did. 2. What was your first concert you were "dying" to go to? I was always "dying" to see The Police in concert, but never did. 3. What was your first album? She's So Unusual by Cindy Lauper. Hey, lots of us have inauspicious beginnings. 4. What was the last concert you went to? It has been far too long since I've seen a live show. I think the last one was Jazzfest last year, where I saw lots of bands. 5. Who would you most like to see in concert (alive or dead)? I'd still love to see The Police as they were back in the 80's. 6. Where is the best place you've seen a show? There are so many great venues it is hard to choose. I loved Chumley's in Dallas when it was still around (the last I heard it became a furniture store. Lame.) The best place I've heard a show was on the rooftop of the science building at my alma mater. I was in Astronomy lab and we were on the rooftop checking out the stars, and I could hear music. Turns out, it was Paul McCartney's live show on Mud Island, which we could hear on campus. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Quiet STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 03/17/2005 09:19:50 AM ----- BODY: I know, I've been quiet. Lots to say but I can't always get the words to match up. I don't usually link to other folks' blog posts (don't know why, I just don't), but Ray has an excellent post on depression among lawyers that I recommend. Beyond that, I'm planning on curling up on the couch tonight to see who gets voted off the Apprentice, and will spend the weekend working and continuing to read my book club's latest pick, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Try not to be too jealous of my life of glamour. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Early News STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 03/20/2005 01:15:23 PM ----- BODY: What was the name of that t.v. show where there was a guy who lived in a large city and he always got a newspaper a day early and it would tell him what was going to happen the next day so he always ran around trying to stop terrible things from happening before they occurred? You know what I'm talking about? There was a cat involved, too. A black cat that was always there when the paper was delivered. Maybe the cat was delivering the paper. Hmmmm.......Not sure. Well, anyway, that's me. I'm the guy, not the cat (yeah, the name of my blog confuses the issue, but that's where we are). Yesterday, I walked outside to take Miss Maggie for a walk and picked up the Saturday paper. On our way back from the walk, I noticed another larger paper near it. It turned out to be the Sunday paper which our delivery boy had given us a day early. I know that newspapers have to be printed before they can go out and this takes time, and I also realize many Sunday papers have early editions that hit the stands the night before, etc. I'm just so used to getting my paper on the day that is printed on it that I feel like some sort of superhero getting it early. Clearly, there must be someone in an ivory tower somewhere or a member of the Illuminati who is orchestrating a worldwide coup and needs my help. The best development out of all of this was that when I went to walk Maggie this morning, I saw another large paper folded up in a plastic bag on our driveway. Confused (since I'd already brought in Sunday's paper yesterday), I picked it up and discovered we'd received the Sunday edition of the New York Times. For free. I might not leave my house all week. UPDATE: After reading my Sunday paper (the local paper, not the NYT), I've decided that if the Illuminati or whatever organization is behind the early delivery of our papers really does need my help in changing life as we know it, they're not trying to get my attention by bringing me actual news, as I suspected earlier. My paper is missing the front page, Metro section, Sports section (no loss there) and the Money section. I only received the Living section, Classifieds and Travel section, along with an assortment of coupons and ads. I suppose it's easy to print papers early when they don't contain any actual news stories. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 68.114.106.122 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 03/23/2005 10:14:00 PM The show was called Early Edition. My paper person used to deliver the already printed parts of the Sunday TP on Saturday afternoons when I lived in Metairie. Never understood why. It just made for an extra delivery. They'd deliver the rest of it at the usual time on Sunday mornings. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Quote of the Day STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 03/22/2005 03:12:08 PM ----- BODY: Thanks to a friend who sent me this quote earlier today: Jon Stewart on Terri Schiavo: "If you want to know just how sick you have to get before Congress is willing to do something about it, well, now you know." ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: passerby EMAIL: sgwaldal@ucalgary.ca IP: 24.71.223.142 URL: DATE: 04/13/2005 11:16:25 PM on Teri Schiavo (a quote that I heard, not one I made): "I bet the Pope is glad he is in the Vatican and not in the USA where they watch you flop around like a fish" ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Book Meme STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 03/29/2005 07:50:58 PM ----- BODY: I was over at Helen's site and saw that she picked up a Book Meme that looked interesting. Being the avid reader I am, I thought I'd jump in: You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be? Like Helen and the bloggers before her, I presume this means which book would you want burned.......the only book I can think of that was so bad I'd want to burn it was The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Go ahead, objectivists -- sue me (no, really. I think I can take it.) Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character? I had a small crush on Peter Pan when I was younger, but that was mostly after seeing the play performed at a civic center in West Texas one summer and the kid who played Peter was awfully cute. So I guess that doesn't count. The last book you bought is: The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. The last book you read: I've started several, but the last one I finished was The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler. What are you currently reading? Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald. Five books you would take to a deserted island: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon The Secret History by Donna Tartt One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Bible A diary (just to torture myself). ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: It's Dry Out Here STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 04/02/2005 06:42:43 PM ----- BODY: I am blogging from Phoenix. I came out here at the end of last week for a conference and have really enjoyed it. I'm staying at a resort which is really nice, but definitely spoiling me (in almost every way -- trying to get my laptop connected to their high speed connection was not fun). I'll be heading back soon, but for now, I'm going to drink some more bottled water, put on some more chap stick and have some fun. See y'all soon. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 68.114.106.122 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 04/07/2005 09:43:02 PM Enjoy yourself. We'll hold down the fort. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Cheddar X STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 04/07/2005 09:45:08 PM ----- BODY: What are you least likely to do? Fly. Who's life is better than yours and what makes it so great? My dog's. She sleeps late, goes to bed early, works out regularly, eats well and has no stress. What does "How ya doing?" really mean? Fine. Would you rather be super strong or super smart? Would you trade that to be able to fly? Super smart, definitely. As for the flying, see my answer to the first question. When wheels spin, why do they look like they're going backwards? I could probably answer that if I were super smart. What kind of a person would say "Well, you can't get there from here."? Someone who works for Amtrak. Does something that smells good attract you more quickly than something that looks good? It probably piques my interest more quickly. Whether it actually holds my interest is another issue entirely. Complete this sentence: Hoo-doggy, I tell you what....... I'm tired. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: C Isn't For Cookie STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 04/08/2005 10:27:49 AM ----- BODY: It appears that Cookie Monster is on a diet. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 04/11/2005 02:30:19 PM bah ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Amtrak STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 04/14/2005 07:11:13 PM ----- BODY: Since I'm obviously mentally ill and can no longer force myself to get on a plane and endure the torment I put myself through during the span of the flight, getting to Phoenix recently was an adventure. When I went to Phoenix two years ago, I completely flipped out and drove (yes, from New Orleans. Yes, it was a loooooong trip). I realized early on that I didn't care to drive and flying was obviously out of the question. So I did what few people do these days -- I booked a ticket on Amtrak. I had ridden Amtrak when I was in high school, but the longest trip I had taken was from Dallas to Houston -- it takes five hours, tops. My grandmother was not amused when I stopped flying Southwest Airlines and starting riding the rails, mostly because it meant that when I got to Houston she had to pick me up in an area of town that shouldn't be visited alone or without a gun. I should've known this trip would be eventful when I planned it. If you go on Amtrak's website, you'll see that they don't go to Phoenix. They used to, but no longer. Now your options are Tucson and Maricopa. A little more searching on the internet will tell you that there is NOTHING in Maricopa except for a Harrah's casino. There's no airport, no shopping mall, no taxi services -- nothing. Clearly, that wouldn't do. Although Maricopa is closer to Phoenix than Tucson, Tucson is the winner since it has signs of civilization besides slot machines. Having chosen Tucson as my stopping point, I then realized that the train gets into Tucson at 1:00 a.m. local time. Seriously. This presented a problem because the rental car places at the airport don't open until 5:30 a.m. Ultimately, I made two plans: plan (a) would be used if we got in on time (ha!), and involved me taking a cab to an airport hotel, sleeping for a while and then taking the shuttle to the airport to pick up my rental car and drive to Phoenix. Plan (b) would be used if we were late, and I would take a taxi to the airport, pick up my rental car and zip to Phoenix, showering in my hotel when I arrived. Being the anal-retentive mentally ill sort that I am, I did my homework. I read everything Amtrak had to offer about train travel, called them and asked questions, and even read an online forum for train travel buffs, many of whom are Amtrak employees. I packed my bags and Archi-Sapper took me to the station at 11:00 on the day of my departure. The first thing I noticed that was different about Amtrak than say, Delta, is that no one really tells you anything. I checked in and checked my two bags and spoke with the gate agent. The only thing he told me was that I should wait in the seats at the gate and they would make an announcement when it was time to board. That they did, although I noticed plenty of people hopping onto the train before the announcement -- scofflaws! Once they made the announcement, I headed outside, had an employee punch my ticket, and they told me to go to the first door. I did, and met an employee who told me to go to the second door. Once on the train, I went into the only compartment I saw, which held about 12 seats and looked way too small to be the right place. After sitting down, someone walked in behind me and said, "This doesn't look right." Exactly, I thought. One of the passengers who had been on the train for a while replied, "This is handicapped seating." Ahhh. It made perfect sense, I just didn't understand why there were no signs denoting that. I made my way upstairs and found a seat. Note that I did not make my way to my sleeping berth, as I didn't get one. I really wanted one, but simply couldn't afford it. A sleeping car each way would've added about $800 to the cost of my trip -- slightly out of my reach. However, the coach seats are large and recline back quite a ways, and the train offers pillows much like those on the airlines. And I brought a blanket. Once we got going (on time!) I headed to the observation/lounge car and watched the scenery. I ended up spending more time there than I'd planned since that was the only location I could find an electrical outlet to recharge my Treo and my laptop. Interestingly, it seems that most of the people on the train were Amtrak regulars. At meal times, you can either eat light snack foods from the Lounge car (basically the same food you'd buy at a convenience store) or have a seated meal in the Dining Car. I opted for the seated dinner, and was placed at a table with three other passengers, all of whom ride Amtrak regularly. One of them rode it so much he actually knows which trains go to which cities. As often happens with train travel, we got stuck behind some Union Pacific freight cars and lost quite a bit of time. They were able to make up some of it, but certainly not all. I recall waking up at various points in the night and realizing we weren't moving, which wasn't the greatest feeling. Had I been traveling for pleasure, it wouldn't have bothered me, but since I had CLE classes I wanted to attend and friends I wanted to see, I just kept thinking, "Go train, go!" The evening of my arrival in Arizona, I again had dinner in the Dining Car. I was seated next to a neatly dressed man with white hair who appeared to be in his 60's. We were seated across from a Hispanic couple who didn't appear to speak English. Consequently, I ended up chatting with my seat mate, who was a very nice man who recently retired from a job working for a contractor that did work for NASA. He was riding the train for fun and hadn't yet decided where he would get off, since he had an open-ended ticket. After dinner, he found me in my seat and handed me his return train ticket. He asked if we were returning on the same train, and I was surprised by the question and a bit flustered since I'd been reading and responding to e-mails. I looked at it and said, "Yes, I think so." He seemed satisfied with that response and returned to his seat. A few minutes later, he was back. He sat down next to me and asked if he could ask me a question. I said sure and he said that he was thinking about the conversation we'd had at dinner and how I'd said I was going to Phoenix. He said that he'd love to go to Phoenix with me and wondered if he could join me on my trip. I was completely unprepared for that question and finally managed to tell him that I didn't know whether I was going to stay in Tucson or head straight to Phoenix and once I got to Phoenix I'd be in meetings and wouldn't have time to hang out, anyway. He then said that he was thinking he could get a hotel in Tucson and I could use it to shower if I wanted (!) and then we could hit the road (he wasn't trying to be insulting by suggesting I shower. If you're sitting in coach you don't have access to showers, and I'd mentioned how I needed one.) I thanked him for his offer but declined. Ultimately, I don't think he was a bad guy (he was a 60+ guy wearing glasses and Sansabelt pants, for crying out loud), but as a single gal, I certainly couldn't take any chances. Once we arrived in Tucson -- four hours late -- I ran into a woman I'd eaten dinner with the previous evening. She asked how the remainder of my trip had gone, and I told her about the guy. She empathized and said, "You've had quite a trip, between the stalker-guy and that arrest last night." Huh? "What arrest?" I asked. She said, "You didn't hear it? I heard the conductor talking to some employees about a passenger who was drunk and disorderly, and then the train stopped around 2:30 a.m. somewhere in New Mexico, and the conductor dragged the guy off the train, handed him to local law enforcement, got back on the train and we kept going! It was crazy!" All in all it was a good trip, but a little more than I'd bargained for. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Big Daddy EMAIL: mike@mikeandrobyn.net IP: 143.166.226.16 URL: DATE: 04/15/2005 02:20:22 PM Well that is thoroughly creepy... hopefully he meant no harm. I mean an attractive woman traveling alone and all, can't blame a guy for tryin ;) ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 68.114.106.122 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 04/17/2005 09:12:36 AM I'm the opposite of you. I prefer flying for the thrill and because I get extremely irritable if I'm confined to a car/bus/train/plane seat for more than a few hours. I've looked into a rail pass for vacations (The wife hates to fly and also gets severe motion sickness so we're not sure she could handle a train, either) but I'm just not the kind of traveler that likes the journey as much as the destination. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: kitty EMAIL: tulanegrad99@hotmail.com IP: 69.38.119.173 URL: http://kittysays.wetwired.org DATE: 04/18/2005 08:35:44 AM Rob, If your wife gets severe motion sickness, I would definitely advise you not to take the train. When we were travelling at top speeds, the train rocked back and forth pretty violently, jerking and lurching the whole time. I think she'd be very ill by the time you got to your destination. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Self Worth STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 04/17/2005 02:14:17 PM ----- BODY: I am worth $1,531,000.00 on HumanForSale.com This quiz was really interesting, though I'm still wondering what my cup size has to do with how much I'm worth. Thanks to Minor Wisdom for the link. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 04/19/2005 07:38:26 AM can you cash in half now? ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Pandemonium STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 04/21/2005 01:27:38 PM ----- BODY: One of the first things that baby lawyers who practice in my practice area get to do is take depositions of plaintiffs. We have tens of thousands of folks who sue our clients, so arranging and taking their depositions prior to trial is time consuming and can be difficult to do. However, baby lawyers are perfect for these types of tasks, since they have a lot more free time and can use the experience to learn about the cases. Needless to say, I've taken my fair share of these depositions. So when I volunteered to help another attorney at my firm and said I would take a deposition yesterday, I thought nothing of it. I should note at the outset that this particular deposition was involving a case where many plaintiffs had sued a cast of thousands of defendants, so when you attend one of these, the conference room is chock full 'o lawyers. A scary sight sometimes, but that's how it goes. I expected to see a room full of folks, so I got there early and reserved my seat while I looked over my notes. The deposition started innocently enough. Things were actually rolling along pretty smoothly -- I was making some progress with my questions, and the witness was very nice. Once I decided to start asking him questions about the various jobs he'd had (he was claiming he had contracted an illness because of exposure to certain substances at various jobs he'd had over the years), things got weird. To make things go a little easier and to jog his memory, I had a copy of his printout from the Social Security Administration, which lists all of the emplyers he's ever had (presumably). I told him I'd be asking him about each employer, and mentioned that his attorney also had a copy of the printout I was using, and he could look at it and follow along with me if he wanted. At this point, his lawyer showed me the printout and said, "Here's what I'm showing him. It's clean. See?" I thought that was a strange comment, because I was thinking, why wouldn't it be clean? But I dismissed the comment and started questioning the witness. Things progressed without incident until lunch. We took a break for lunch and when we returned, the witness and his attorney came back in the room and sat down. The plaintiff re-opened his social security printout and was looking at it on the conference room table. I glanced at it and noticed that it had handwritten notes all over it. Thinking this was strange (particularly in light of his attorney's earlier comments about how he was looking at a clean copy), I made a note to ask about it when we got to a good stopping point. When we did, I said, "Sir, I don't mean to be nosy, but it looks like your copy of the printout has some notes on it. What are those?" At that point, his attorney flipped out. His attorney looked apoplectic, became red in the face and started yelling at me. He began shouting, "This witness has made notes on the papers in the presence of his attorney and he made them to prepare for his deposition! He's allowed to use them to refresh his recollection if he wants! How dare you imply that he isn't being entirely truthful!" I calmly replied, "I wasn't implying any such thing. I was just wondering what sort of notes he has on his printout." His attorney spat out, "He told you all about them already, so move on." I said, "No. YOU told me about them. He hasn't told me anything yet." His attorney shot back, "He's allowed to make notes if he wants to," to which I replied, "I agree," and his lawyer said, "Then why ask him about it?" I replied, "If he's going to use them during his deposition, I'm going to ask him about them. I want to see whether the notes were based on his independent recollection of the facts." His lawyer shouted, "Well, what else would they be based on!?" I calmly replied, "I don't know. That's why I'm asking the question." The attorney crossed his arms like a four year old and spat out, "Fine. Ask him." Keep in mind, as a rule, people don't yell at me. I'm a pretty laid back kitty and I get along with just about everyone. The fact that I was completely calm and unruffled during this exchange only made him more irate. It didn't help the situation that all of the other lawyers in the room were now loudly whispering to one another, clearly riled up. I asked the witness whether he made the notes, where he got the information, etc. Finally, after I'd asked all my questions, I asked his attorney if he could attach a copy of the now-infamous document to the deposition. He agreed. Thinking all of the craziness was behind us, I forged onward. After about an hour, the witness asked if we could take a break so he could get a glass of water. I agreed. The rest of us sat in the conference room and waited for his return. And waited. And waited. Around 20 minutes later, he and his attorney re-entered the room. While we'd been waiting, several attorneys asked me when we would finish up the deposition for the day, as they wanted to beat the rush hour traffic. I had promised them I would address it with the plaintiff's lawyer as soon as they returned. Making good on my promise, I told the plaintiff's attorney when they returned, "Well, the $64,000 question seems to be when we're stopping today." He replied, "Yes, we need to discuss that, but we also need to talk about something else and you're not going to like it." Oooookay. We went back on the record and he said that the document they had brought with them to the afternoon portion of the deposition was a privileged document which "was unintentionally produced", that they were withdrawing it and we could file whatever motions we wanted with the Court. At this point, pandemonium ensued. The attorneys in attendance were obviously freaking out and the plaintiff's lawyer thought we should just keep going and finish as much of the deposition as possible. Naturally, that didn't sit well with some folks. Ultimately, the plaintiff's lawyer's boss came in and shut down the deposition amid the uproar. I've had multiple phone calls today from people who were either there or heard about it, all of whom are amazed at the turn of events. If ever there was an excuse to start carrying alcohol in my purse, that deposition was it. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: pylorns EMAIL: pylorns@wetwired.org IP: 168.215.245.170 URL: http://www.wetwired.org DATE: 04/22/2005 08:21:26 AM damn ----- PING: TITLE: refinance URL: http://www.uccpp.org/refinance.html IP: 207.248.240.119 BLOG NAME: refinance DATE: 06/15/2005 03:54:10 AM You can also check the sites about loans home loans ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: The Apprentice STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 04/23/2005 05:51:40 PM ----- BODY: I already miss that Bren guy. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Draw A Pig STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 04/25/2005 03:45:02 PM ----- BODY: Here is a fun pig-drawing personality quiz. I'm really terrible at drawing with my mouse. What am I saying? I can't draw with pen and paper, either. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Par-tay STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 04/30/2005 06:18:23 PM ----- BODY: I'm happy to report that I hosted a party last night on behalf of my firm for a bunch of lawyers who are in town for an ABA meeting and a seminar. It's a happy report because, despite my worries that no one would show, it was a big hit. We had the party at Pat O'Brien's in their Briar's Suite, which is two rooms and two balconies (one of which overlooks Bourbon St) that are upstairs from the rabble of Pat O's patio courtyard. I should've known that an open bar and good hors d'oeuvres would've been a big draw, but I still had last minute jitters. As it turns out, I have some really wonderful friends who were looking out for me, and they talked up the party to their friends which seriously boosted attendance. I had gotten my firm to sponsor (read: pay for) the event based upon a 100 attendee budget I submitted to the partners months ago. Had we had more than 100 folks show up last night, I was going to plunk down my credit card to pay for the extras, get a receipt and wait to get reimbursed. At the end of the function, the staff of Pat O's came up to me and said we'd had exactly 100 guests! I haven't a clue how we got so lucky, but it worked out really well. *whew* By the end of the event, we practically had to physically eject people from the party room to get them to leave. I went around telling people, "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here." One guest told me that was the nicest way he'd ever been kicked out of a place before. Today has been a lazy Saturday -- a combination of sleeping late through the morning rain, eating a leisurely lunch and reading my book club's latest selection. Speaking of, one of the lawyers who attended my party (who occasionally reads this blog, which I didn't realize until we were talking the other day) mentioned that I haven't blogged about book club lately. That's true. I've been going to the meetings (really! I have!), but I haven't been as good about finishing the reading as I usually am. At any rate, I (belatedly) finished the co-ed book club's latest read Cakes & Ale (which I loved) and have now moved onto the May selection, A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement. So far, so good. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: The New Zoo Revue STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 05/03/2005 05:01:58 PM ----- BODY: Good Lord. The etiology of my mental illness is becoming increasingly clear to me. I'm at a hotel in the town where I've been in depositions all day. I turned on the t.v. when I got back in the room and flipped through the channels. I stumbled across an old rerun of a t.v. show I used to watch when I was growing up called The New Zoo Revue. I haven't seen this show in years, but when I was little, I loved it (almost as much as I loved the Gigglesnort Hotel). I watched hours of episodes of this show and remember getting really excited whenever I would find out it was on and I could watch it. The show I'm watching right this minute involves the following scenario: a morbidly obese hippo, who is wearing what I am sad to report is a very unflattering dress, is singing off-key into a tin can (yeah, I don't get that, either) alongside a frog who is wearing a brown cable knit sweater with a large "F" on the front of it (in case you confused him with a toad, I guess), next to a real live woman who is wearing a baby blue dress with a hoop skirt and white go-go boots. They're singing this insidious song in front of a poorly painted backdrop, no doubt painted by folks in a criminal diversion program at a local community college. I really wish I'd seen this show again before I started going to therapy. This explains a lot. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Joshua EMAIL: joshua@noematic.org IP: 63.252.121.66 URL: http://www.noematic.org/mine DATE: 05/04/2005 06:02:01 PM See, just thinking about the theme song to that stupid show is upsetting to me. I swear, I have nightmares about it. I hated it even when I was a kid-- but I couldn't stop watching. ----- PING: TITLE: payday advance URL: http://www.uccpp.org/payday-advance.html IP: 148.244.150.58 BLOG NAME: payday advance DATE: 06/15/2005 03:58:07 AM You can also check out the sites about loans home loans ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: My Inner European STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 05/08/2005 02:09:11 PM ----- BODY:
Your Inner European is French!
Smart and sophisticated. You have the best of everything - at least, *you* think so.
Who's Your Inner European?
----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: T.V. Cheddar STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 05/08/2005 02:16:30 PM ----- BODY: 1. Who's your favorite talk show host? Bill Maher. Smart and funny. 2. Late night talk show? See response to #1. 3. What's your favorite drama? The Sopranos, hands down. 4. Favorite comedy? Gilmore Girls in the "real actors" category. Family Guy in the cartoon category. 5. Least favorite show or genre? Soap operas and sports. 6. Most unlikely show you like? 24. Archi-Sapper got me interested in this show and I really like it. 7. Most unlikely show you thought you'd like but really hate? Sex and the City. I kept trying with this show, but I got nothing. 8. Worst reality show? The Gastineau Girls. It's even worse than The Simple Life, if that's possible. 9. Best reality show (if it exists)? I still love all of the Real World/Road Rules challenge shows. 10. Best tv innovation? It isn't so much an innovation designed by t.v. manufacturers as by cable companies, but having a separate screen where you can see what's showing on every channel makes my lazy life that much easier. 11. Who's the hottest person on tv (take that as you will, sexiest, most famous, whatever)? Jon Stewart, hands down. 12. Who's got a face for radio? Paris Hilton. 13. What major news channel, if any, do you watch? I don't. 14. Bill O'Reilly. Thoughts? Ugh. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- PING: TITLE: personal loans URL: http://www.uccpp.org/personal-loans.html IP: 207.248.240.119 BLOG NAME: personal loans DATE: 06/15/2005 03:45:16 AM Please check the sites in the field of loans home loans ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Pineapples STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 05/11/2005 08:31:58 PM ----- BODY: I've said it before on this blog, but it bears repeating: I am scared to have children. I know I'm not the only person who feels this way, but I don't seem to have the same concerns that the rest of my married-but-childless friends have. I'm not worried about the finances (I'm sure I'll be broke the minute I go into labor, never to return to a positive cash flow until my children enter retirement age), nor the way my life will radically change (I've been through a lot, I think I can hack it) nor the fact that my carefree days of being without children will be over (I currently raise a dog with an attitude and a husband -- I'm no stranger to responsibility). I'm worried because I never quite know what to do with children. When I was growing up, one of my aunts married this guy named George. George was basically the playboy of the Western world -- he came from a wealthy family, went to school at some of the finest preparatory schools in the country, was quite handsome and didn't need to work since he had so much family money. He was busy gallivanting around (as far as I can tell, only the truly wealthy gallivant, the rest of us just wander around) and happy to date whomever he met until he met my aunt, fell in love and got married (only to get divorced seven years later, but that's the subject of my aunt's blog, not mine). One summer I was in Houston visiting the happy couple and my aunt was.....well, she was elsewhere. I actually don't remember where she was at the time. Probably shopping. In any event, I was alone in their cavernous house with my uncle George. And George had no idea what to do with me. He tried asking me about school (and kids who are in grade school just love to talk about classes, so that went nowhere), gave me the grand tour of the house and basically tried to figure out what I wanted to do. What I wanted to do was eat. I was the type of kid of was so skinny they looked like they were malnourished, yet I ate constantly. Couldn't get enough food. So, I told George I wanted something to eat. We wandered into the kitchen, and he flailed around like a fish on the deck of a boat and tried to find something for me to eat. He disappeared in the pantry, and came up with a jar of olives. He turned around and looked at me, looked at the olives, realized he had mistaken me for a martini and returned to the pantry. He came back with a jar of crushed pineapple. Not wanting to be rude, I didn't ask what sort of dish he planned to whip up with the pineapples, and I couldn't recall the USDA's food pyramid well enough to quibble with his choices, anyway, so I let it go to see where he was going with this. He opened the can with the can opener and handed me the open can with a fork. I stared at the can blankly. "What's this?" was all I could manage to ask. "It's pineapple! It's really good!" he replied, as if to convince me that pineapple was far tastier than I'd imagined. I looked at him and deadpanned, "George, I'm 10. I need more than pineapple." To be fair, my aunt who married George used to babysit me by taking me to Gilley's Honky Tonk in Pasadena, Texas and sit me on the edge of the dance floor with a Shirley Temple while she danced the night away. I doubt she would've been up for any parenting awards, either. So I know how George felt. He was a nice guy who meant well, he was just so far removed from children that he had no idea what to do when he was around one. Fast forward to last weekend. Friday night was the lock-in for our church's high school youth group. Archi-Sapper had volunteered to chaperone the lock-in, which was from 8:00 p.m. until 8:00 a.m. I did not volunteer for this foolishness, because by 11:00 p.m. I'm usually sacked out. I can stay up for special occasions, but special occasions for me usually don't involve sitting in a dark, empty school, eating cold pizza and watching the children of the corn play video games and try to trash the place. I did attend the beginning of the lock-in, and stayed until the point where they actually locked the doors. At that point I bailed, went out for a drink with a friend and then headed home. Archi came home the next morning and crashed. When he woke up I asked him how things had gone. He said, "It was fine. There were some funny moments." I said, "Yeah? Like what?" He responded, "Well, one of the kids brought a DVD of a stand-up comedian and it was hilarious. But we were watching it with the kids, and I looked at the other chaperone and said, 'If Kitty were here, she would flip out. She would never let the kids watch this with all of this bad language.' The other chaperone said, 'Yeah.......Okay kids, we're turning this movie off!'" *sigh* In the end, I suppose George and I will be just fine. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Sheer Dallas STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 05/14/2005 12:45:04 PM ----- BODY: This show is doing nothing for Dallas' image. Surprising. I would've guessed that a show featuring two guys who work in a hair salon (one openly gay, one who refuses to admit he's gay) who constantly bicker, interspersed with clips from an aging heavily breast-implanted real estate selling-floozy would've made Dallas look that much better. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Fatigue STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 05/15/2005 07:21:13 PM ----- BODY: The next time I think it's a good idea to walk for six miles starting at 3:30 in the afternoon when I haven't eaten and haven't had any water (and didn't decide to bring water with me), someone needs to wrestle my Nike Air running shoe off my foot and beat me in the head with it. Seriously folks, I'm done. By the time I got home I looked like I'd been beaten, and with something more forceful than a running shoe. Yes, I will walk again, but next time I'm going to plan ahead. Walking outside today in temps that were only in the high 80s makes me want to buy a treadmill even more than I already did. This whole exercising outdoors in the blazing heat thing is going to get much more difficult before it gets easier, so it might be time to start saving my pennies. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 68.114.106.122 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 05/15/2005 10:08:26 PM Check the classifieds for treadmills. I suspect lots of people are probably selling little-used treadmills after deciding exercise wasn't for them. We bought a top-of -the line, hardly-touched Nordic Trac for a song. I suspect treadmills are similar. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Weekend STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 05/21/2005 12:36:33 PM ----- BODY: I don't blawg too often (mostly because there are many, many others who are far better at it than I am, but also because I like to think about other shtuff when not working), but I do read entries of others who do. I'm usually just a lurker at those blogs, but after reading this post, all I can say is I love the practice of law, but amen my friend. Amen. Archi-Sapper left town yesterday for the weekend (more military duty) so I'm a latch-key kitty for a couple of days. I started the weekend last night by going over to one of my partner's homes (estate is really more the word) for a party we had for our new batch of summer associates. I only stayed about an hour and a half -- long enough to meet all the kiddos, including my mentee who starts Monday, and have an excellent glass of wine. Earlier that afternoon, I'd received a snarky e-mail from one of the associates who had spoken with the partner hosting the shindig, and it said dress was business casual (it made other comments that weren't nearly as funny as intended, so I'll spare you the details). Since yesterday was a designated jeans day at the office, I went home after work and changed into some slacks and a blouse that is more low-cut than I remembered (come to think of it, this blouse is always low-cut, and that never occurs to me until I'm wearing it out somewhere and catch someone staring). Anyway, I ended up in a conversation with one of my department's two department heads and he leaned in to ask me for some gossip, jumped back and said, "Christ! I can't talk to you -- I keep trying to look down your blouse!" I blocked his view with my purse and we were able to continue our conversation. Other than that, the party was pretty uneventful. I was only asked by two spouses which law school I attend (inevitably, their lawyer-spouse would hear the comment and interject with something along the lines of, "Sweeeetie, she works with me. She's not a student," said in the overly condescending tone people reserve for three year olds and people they don't like. I wasn't offended -- I certainly don't mind looking younger than my age.) I've almost finished my latest read (yes, it's 700+ pages, but don't be too impressed -- our book club is only asking people to read the first 200 pages). Once I do (some time tonight), I'm going to officially start my summer reading. One of the few things I didn't like about going to private schools growing up was that they always assigned summer reading, which left me less time to read the trash I had been waiting to read. It would've been better if they'd assigned more books I actually liked, but I knew that wasn't going to happen when the first summer read I had freshman year was this drivel. My summer reading this year will kick off with this book I've been dying to read. Unlike the President, there's not likely to be much controversy over whether I actually finished it (hat tip to the Rude Pundit for that story). And now, after sleeping in all morning, I've gone on a search for some documents I need which are somewhere in our piling system. Of course, I haven't found them (and don't expect to any time soon), but have found: (1) lots of Hello Kitty stuff; (2) a gift certificate to my favorite local day spa that my firm gave me last year as a thank you for mentoring a summer associate (I'm definitely using that and soon), and (3) a mix cd I made in 2003 which is currently in the cd drive of my desktop. This weekend is shaping up, after all. Current song: The Milkman of Human Kindness by Billy Bragg. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Baby Lawyer EMAIL: mystenigmary@gmail.com IP: 209.128.246.236 URL: http://legalmystenigmary.blogs.com DATE: 05/26/2005 09:45:07 AM nononono! Not "charlotte simmons," please! In its place, can I suggest "Prep" by Curtis Sittenfeld instead? both books have similar settings and themes, but Prep doesn't make you want to kill yourself, the characters or the author once you're done. Honestly -- "Simmons" presents such an annoyingly inaccurate, slanted, overly jaded view of college life -- and the poor eponymous main character, after being fairly charming and likeable in the first 600 pages, suddenly becomes a body-snatching victim for the last 50 or whatever it is, so that Wolfe can get to his appalling conclusion. It's a terrible book, written by someone who really only wants to shock (and it does, so if that's what you're going for, then by all means...), but most of the "shocking" material is pretty gratuitous and the rest is just overblown. Whew. Worked up quite the head of steam there. I'm calm now. I just *really* hated that book. please please please try Prep instead -- same idea, much better writing, characters and attitudes (I swear, I'm not some kind of PR person -- just someone with an unholy attachment to good books!) ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: kitty EMAIL: tulanegrad99@hotmail.com IP: 69.38.119.173 URL: http://kittysays.wetwired.org DATE: 05/26/2005 01:29:06 PM I hear you. One of my all-time favorite books is Bonfire of the Vanities, which I think is Wolfe at his finest. A Man in Full was good, but about 200 pages too long and in sore need of an editor. Sounds like Charlotte Simmons may be much of the same. I've read about 150 pages of it so far, but I'm far from the end (or even the middle). I had seen a review of Prep in The New Yorker, and was really intrigued. I mentioned it to a friend who is an avid reader, and he read it and said, "eh". He and I don't always agree on books, though, so that certainly isn't dispositive as to my feelings about it. I'm still interested in checking it out. He said it was depressing, though I can't imagine it would be more depressing than the picture of college life Wolfe portrays. Although I like Charlotte Simmons (so far), I keep reading it and thinking, "I only graduated from college in 1996. Where are my friends and I in this book?" ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Moonlighting STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 05/23/2005 02:21:36 PM ----- BODY: I know a few lawyers who have odd jobs on the side, but nothing like this. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 209.16.84.21 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 05/25/2005 12:27:11 PM Way too many jokes available. Please note my remarkable restraint. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Chad EMAIL: CPYoungblood@yahoo.com IP: 141.164.151.48 URL: DATE: 06/08/2005 01:10:41 PM Don't tell my Mama I'm a lawyer... she thinks I play the piano in a whorehouse! ----- PING: TITLE: Just stuff URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/archives/001922.php IP: 66.116.140.1 BLOG NAME: CrabAppleLane Blog DATE: 05/26/2005 06:26:59 AM The problem with tractors and trailblazing is that you have to watch in front of you and behind you at the same time. Sometime Sunday, while watching carefully where I was going, I hooked the finish mower behind me on a fairly large tree and bent an im... ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Lulls STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 06/03/2005 05:31:54 PM ----- BODY: I am officially wiped out. I've considered blogging, but lately just haven't had it in me. For me, my blogging urges wax and wane and we're definitely on a wane at the moment. It's not that I have nothing to say, I just have a zillion things floating through my head and when I try to grab one and pin it down on the keyboard I finally think "ack" and give up. I think I'm just falling out of my recently acquired good habits and paying the price for it. I haven't been walking as much lately (partly due to scheduling and partly due to the temperatures and weather), I've been eating more fast food and generally not successfully dealing with some stressful stuff that's come up. All of these are combining to create the perfect storm. I'm sure I'll snap out of this funk, I just need to get my butt in gear and get moving. That said, I haven't lost my entertainment value during this lull. Just because I'm bummed out doesn't mean I can't make other people laugh. I was covering yet another deposition today and was asking the witness where he worked when he worked for a specific employer. He couldn't remember. His attorneys had given me some information that suggested where they thought he had worked, so I decided just to ask him about what was on the page instead of waiting for him to remember. We ended up having the following exchange: Me: Sir, do you remember working at Company X? Him: Yeah, now that you mention it. I'm glad you remembered that. Me: Yeah, I've got a great memory. Him: Well, you read the information very well. Me: Good to know those three years of law school are finally kicking in. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Big Kitty EMAIL: robwolf@cox.net IP: 69.38.119.173 URL: DATE: 06/10/2005 02:03:04 PM Hi jennifer, I hear you about bad habits and not doing the healthy thing. I've slipped into that zone as well and I'm beginnig to feel it. I've also been eating too much fast food and that is way out of character for me. I hope you are well. Robert ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: kitty EMAIL: tulanegrad99@hotmail.com IP: 69.38.119.173 URL: http://kittysays.wetwired.org DATE: 06/10/2005 02:52:28 PM You're eating fast food?! You? What is this world coming to? You're the biggest foodie I know! Ack! ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Splish STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 06/06/2005 01:13:18 PM ----- BODY: If it keeps raining like it has been today, I'm wearing a scuba mask to work tomorrow. I work in an old warehouse that has been converted into an office building. While there are a lot of cool aspects to our digs, being in an old building does has disadvantages. One of them is when the windows leak. The window in my office leaks, which isnt terrible unless we're having a flood. We got a deluge of rain at lunch time and half of it came in my office window, soaking my Dictaphone, a binder and part of my telephone. My secretary has tented the table on which my phone and Dictaphone sit with trashbags until our General Services department can come up and bail me out. In other news, I finished reading I Am Charlotte Simmons last night. Like most people I know who've read it, there were parts I liked and parts I didn't. Overall, the end was depressing -- so depressing, in fact, that I considered not finishing it. Now that that's out of the way, I have to decide what to read next. My two book clubs' next selections are: Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway, and Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi. I'm more inclined to read the latter than the former, although I could ditch both of them and read something else entirely. Suggestions? ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Vauda EMAIL: vauda.kane@gmail.com IP: 68.185.199.75 URL: DATE: 06/07/2005 11:15:24 AM I'm addicted to Patricia Cornwell myself. I just finished Trace, her latest novel. I'm glad to be done with it because I can finally get to bed on time and do my laundry! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Rob EMAIL: rob@crabapplelane.net IP: 209.16.84.21 URL: http://www.crabapplelane.net/roblog/ DATE: 06/07/2005 12:52:18 PM Hemmingway is an acquired taste. I never acquired it. The latter or ditch both. ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Books and Movies STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 06/10/2005 03:05:13 PM ----- BODY: While Archi-Sapper is playing in the sandbox (and by the way, I do find it ironic that he only refers to his military duty as being "in the sandbox" when he's not in Iraq), I have to find ways to amuse myself. One tried and true option is Netflix, which I've grown to love. Last night I watched Closer, which was good, if heavy. I liked the fact that none of the characters could easily figure each other out, and none seemed to understand themselves, either. The dialogue was good and didn't fall into the constant high-pitched whining and door slamming you often get with movies about relationships gone wrong. Tonight I'm going for much lighter fare with Mean Girls. Maybe I'll get the whole Lindsay Lohan thing if I watch it. Once those are shipped back, the next movie in the queue is I Heart Huckabees, another movie on my to-watch list. I'd better stock up on popcorn. For those keeping track, I briefly decided to read the Hemingway book until I actually started it. About 20 pages in I remembered why I don't like Hemingway. To be fair, the only Hemingway I've ever read and finished was The Old Man and the Sea (it's a fish, let's move on), and I've always wanted to read one of his well known works. Across the River and Into the Trees certainly isn't well known and wasn't doing anything for me besides. So, I decided to skip that book and have moved on to that book club's next selection, Vanity Fair by Thackeray. I'm not too far into it, but at this point I'm enjoying it far more than Hemingway. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- -------- AUTHOR: kittysays TITLE: Music STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: __default__ ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: DATE: 06/11/2005 10:56:48 PM ----- BODY: For the first time in my blogging life, someone has passed me a meme. The meme consists of the following five questions: I love music and cannot imagine my life without it. That said, this meme was a lot harder to respond to than I would've imagined. Like Ray, my musical tastes and listening habits have changed over the years, so it's difficult to summarize them. But what the hell. I'll give it a shot. The first music (on tape) I remember actually going out and buying with my own money was Cupid & Psyche 85 by Scritti Politti. Needless to say, I've come a long way since then. Throughout junior high and high school I went through various phases (they're probably closer to obsessions, but that's neither here nor there), not necessarily with artists as with albums. I would become fixated on specific tapes and play them over and over until the tape snapped in half (or melted in my car in the Texas heat) and I had to buy a replacement. The first such obsession was in junior high with The Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill (do I really need to link to that folks? You all know what I'm talking about). I then went to a church camp in central Texas one summer where I met this amazing girl who wore all black and dyed her hair funky colors. She listened to bands I'd never heard of, like The Cure and The Violent Femmes and The Velvet Underground. My horizons officially broadened, I became fixated on whatever I stumbled across -- I had a serious Housemartins faze, I fell in love with The Beatles and couldn't get enough of The Police. For the most part, I had mainstream tastes mixed in with a few oddities. As with most people who came of age in the 1980's, I started making mix tapes in earnest (mostly for myself at first, before I realized there were others who had similar tastes in music and then I gave them to friends). In college I ended up befriending someone who loved music as much as I did, and we later became roommates with one killer combined music collection. We went to concerts together (one really fabulous concert by David Garza comes to mind, when we braved the seedier parts of Memphis to check out his show at a warehouse. I think we were the only patrons there) and she introduced me to one of my all-time favorite bands,Old 97's. I'm sad to report that my days post-college have not been nearly as music-filled. The high point was stumbling upon the CDMOM club, which was a great introduction to some fabulous indie music (not to mention an introduction to a good friend). These days, I don't buy nearly as much music as I'd like, but I get to listen to a fair amount of good stuff thanks to my XM satellite radio subscription. Oh yeah, and to answer the point of the first question in the meme? I have no frickin' clue how much music I have. I have quite a few CD's, but I haven't counted them in a long time (and I'm not gonna do it now). I have some music stored on my computer, but not as much as I'd like. After my computer crashed last year and I lost so much stuff, I'm wary of storing music on computer. 2.The last CD I bought was Here's to Shutting Up by Superchunk. Good stuff. 3.The song playing right now is Landed by Ben Folds. I am such a sucker for piano music. I actually took piano lessons for eight or nine years growing up. That's one of those things I never should've given up. 4. Five songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me. You've got to be kidding me, only five? This could be tricky. 5. Five people to whom I'm passing the baton. Victims! I love it! Hmmmm....decisions, decisions. To be honest, a number of people whose answers I'd like to see don't blog, so that's a little tricky. So, here's what we'll do: I'll pass the baton to a couple of bloggers and a couple of non-bloggers. The non-bloggers can either post their answers in my comments, or send them to me and I'll post them in an entry. Of course, I don't want to "out" any of the non-bloggers who don't already have set "internet names" they use for posting, so I'm just going to have to describe you folks and let you out yourselves. You'll know who you are. I'm passing the baton to: Daddy Warbucks at Warbucksblog because I know he loves music as much as I do. I don't know if he'll actually respond since he only blogs about politics, but he could respond in the comments section of my blog, just like a non-blogger if he wants (*cough*hint*cough*). I'm also passing the baton to Joshua Norton at Strip Mining for Whimsy, because he's an interesting guy and I'm just curious to see his answers (don't know if he "does" memes, but we'll see). And the last blogger to whom I'll pass the baton will be Death and Taxes. As for non-bloggers, I shall pass the baton to Vauda (who has already used her name in the comments, so I'm not outing her), and the attorney who did the closing on our house. I would be outing him if I used his real name, so I'll leave it up to him to pick an internet name for himself if he wants to respond to this post. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- --------