great, and not so great news

fantastic news:News: Publishing date for next 'Harry Potter' book?

not so great news: PLJ is playing Christmas songs from now until Christmas day. How annoying.

movies galore!

I saw Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason today. At times I found myself extremely annoyed at Bridget's denseness. Also, she's not fat, and there's no reason for her to wobble when she walks. Mark Darcy is an emotionally dead snob. On a positive note, we had lunch at Republic and it was delicious. I must go back and get the pad-tai.

After lunch I went to Target for some necessities. After about an hour of dodging very early holiday shoppers, I wanted to look at some purses. Since the aisles were too narrow, I left my cart on the side (not obstructing anyone) only to find it missing 5 mins later. Why would anyone take a cart full of random stuff from the store they're in? I suppose either someone accidentally pushed the wrong cart away (and never brought it back) or someone hoped I had put some personal things in there and wanted to rob me. Either way, it really annoyed me.

I also love my new VS sweater :)

mmm... the smell of bleach

6 weeks' worth of kitchen floor... can you guess which is the rinse side?

so close!!

This time next week I will be (almost) done with class FOREVER! I'll definately be done with lectures and problem sets. I still have a presentation left, which is worth 50% of the course grade, but I never have read 13 papers on stuff I'm totally not interested in and pretend to care.

Also, they finally posted our grades from last spring, I guess that means that I finally, officially, have a masters.

I have plans to see lots of movies in the next week. I <3 Huckabees tomorrow, Bridget Jones on Sunday, and The Incredibles on Wednesday. Of course after that I'll just bring my pillow to lab and spend the next 4 years there. It's been nice knowing you all.

trippy :)

Q: what does this look like?

A: my uncle's 25th anniversary celebration

I can't wait!!!

SCIFI.COM Battlestar Galactica

The DVD of the miniseries comes out in late December, and the series premiers in mid January. I really liked the old series, but this one is fantastic. The theme is the same as the original, but I think this show can stand on its own.

MSNBC - Exit poll

MSNBC - Exit poll

I think one of the more interesting (and somewhat disturbing) statistics was that only 7% of voters thought that intelligence was the most important quality in a president, and of those, 91% voted for Kerry. That was beaten by 8% who think "strong religious faith" is the most important quality (who do you think that vote went to?). So there are people out there who think going to church is more important than having a strong grasp of what's going on around you.

Another mind boggling number was the 23% of gay/bisexual voters who supported Bush. If a guy says "i'm against everything you stand for, and I believe you should have no civil rights" would you say "that's the man I want to be my president!"

Madness!!!

:(

Unfortunately, it looks like we'll be staring at Bush's smug grin for another 4 years. How very disappointing. That's 4 years of 2 people who have no concerns of reelection. They will fuck up this country and the world in a way we can't even imagine, and which will take decades to undo. He will appoint at least 3 supreme court judges who will set civil rights in this country back by decades. Americans will be unable to travel abroad because everyone will hate us. The occupation of Iraq will continue for another 4 years.

The MSNBC commentators were making all sorts of assertions about the types of people who voted and why they voted. There was the "macho man" voter, who felt powerful because America is at war. I hope there aren't any people stupid enough to vote for Bush because they feel a surge of testosterone. Sometimes I feel that we should really let the south and midwest go. The Northeast would do much better without them.

Not everyone can or should be president, and George Bush certainly falls in that category. It's time to move to another country. Canada? Australia?