squeeeee!!!!

i'm not one for super-overtly cutesy stuff, but this is a relaxing way to ease into the week.

final countdown

so...last day! seriously, i cannot believe it's here. i almost don't want to say anything because i fear i am going to jinx myself. but hey, why not go out on a limb--i'm done! this is the first time i've ever really had a transition between jobs. i've held limited-term jobs (internships); i've been summarily dismissed from a job (layoff); and i've been allowed to leave some jobs on virtually no notice (working for my parents). otherwise, i quit my first post-college job on a friday and started work at a new job the following monday.

all that is to say, i've never looked forward to a vacation more than this. i'm going to shore up my liberal bona fides by finally watching the wire. i'll let you know whether it blows my mind.

new lows

example 1: my sister was in town over the weekend and for some inexplicable reason we decided to pick up a quick cup of coffee at mcdonald's. don't ask. anyway, this old lady with her grandson cut in front of me in line and was completely unapologetic about it.

me: you are not setting a very good example for your grandson.
her: that's not my job. [ed note: what the hell kind of an answer is that?]
me (figuring i have nothing to lose if she's not interested in teaching her grandson anything): go to hell.

end scene.

example 2: knut the adorable german polar bear died over the weekend. so sad!! i was reading this article about how people are mourning when i came across this:

Children wrote farewell poems for him, and a group of "die-hard" fans stayed all day, many of them crying. "I've been crying nonstop since I heard about his death," Ingrid Rommel told the AP.

i'm a jerk so my immediate thought was, this woman is nuts. then i moved onto the following sentence:

She said visiting Knut weekly since 2006 helped her get over her husband's death.

that is one of the saddest sentences i have ever read. i dare you to come up with something sadder.

:(

wait, i may have a winner:

Knut was raised by zookeeper Thomas Doerflein after the cub's mother rejected him. Doerflein died from a heart attack in 2008, around the same time that one of Knut's keepers warned he was becoming a "psycho" bear. Doerflein had been banned from playing with Knut because he had become an adult bear and it was too dangerous, leaving Knut sad and lonely.

:( :( :( infinity.

Rolling Wid Da Homeez (Clueless Reference, a film from 1995)

Haha. I am the best at doing occasional non-posts. But what can I say -- this picture makes me so happy, I have to share it with the world and cover it in gold dust and post it on my ceiling and look at it every night before I go to bed. Not like ironically happy -- I mean kittens napping with babies on a bed of world peace, for-realsies happy.

ps -- E, wtf do we have a Brittany Murphy tag? Oh, yes, because we're awesome. Sorry, forgot for a second.

unintended consequences

Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are

there goes the neighborhood

omg! one half of heathchelle is totally leaving the 'hood! in the most indiscreet manner ever!

news you can use

just something i noticed in the times. an article about vancouver's restaurant scene a while back entitled "Asian Stars Are Bright in Vancouver's Firmament". and this week's way early preview of an article on jack goldsmith begins as follows: "In the fall of 2003, Jack L. Goldsmith was widely considered one of the brightest stars in the conservative legal firmament."

btw, i caught "the king and the clown," which i think was the 3rd most popular movie of all time in korea. the story in a nutshell is about a troup of performers that become court jesters in 14th (15th?) century korea. the more intriguing aspect of the film is that one of the jesters, gong-gil, wins the affection of a lascivious king, who realizes that gong-gil can meet his emotional and physical needs more than his many (female) concubines. i know, there's a reason why this movie was called the "brokeback mountain" of korea. even though only one very quick male-on-male kiss verifies this homosexual subtext, i was pretty darn surprised that a mainstream movie was acknowledging and not denigrating homosexual love.

granted, i think the movie's popularity may be attributable to the very bawdy humor, skewering of the upper class and depictions of lavish royal life, but i dunno, maybe we've come a long way, baby? yeah, i don't wholeheartedly endorse this movie bc i think they could've cut out about 20 min, but it was entertaining.

this reminds me: the heath ledger/michelle williams breakup kind of got to me. maybe bc they're my quasi-neighbors? who knows.